Example sentences of "[adv] and by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They all knew they wanted to do it right away and by the next day had done something about it , ’ Chay Blyth remarks . |
| 2 | The father is downstairs and by the sound of it your husband , and my dear father , has just killed him . ’ |
| 3 | I have argued that the movement mobilized within and by the English Association drew its energy and force from the apparent capacity of " English " as a novel cultural form to resolve a number of problems posed for the functioning of national institutions between 1880 and 1920 . |
| 4 | Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created . |
| 5 | The following day she felt that everything was going very slowly and by the next day she felt that she was back to normal . |
| 6 | Investment trusts are regulated by the rules of the Companies Acts , which lay down requirements with respect to number of shareholders , form of financial accounts , constitutional structure , etc. and by the listing requirements of the Stock Exchange ( see above ) . |
| 7 | I can only hope that his kind of electioneering cynicism will fail abysmally and by the time National Music Day comes round next year , Tim Renton will have left office too . |
| 8 | They moved quite quickly and by the time Mum had paid for her shopping and packed it in bags , they had almost reached t ] he last checkout . |
| 9 | He had caught up with and passed his rival in a latter of a few strides in a quite extraordinary spurt of acceleration for a steeple-chaser carrying twelve and a half stone at the end of a three-mile chase , and for the big horse it was simply too much : Mill House weakened rapidly and by the time Arkle had strode home to a rapturous reception Mill House had been passed by Rondetto . |
| 10 | Building societies , for the finance of house building or purchase , grew rapidly and by the end of the century attracted many small investors , but their appeal was rather to tradesmen and the lower-middle class than to manual workers . |
| 11 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 12 | I started using oil more and more and by the time I was ten I was using Cubist techniques . |
| 13 | So we sauntered home and by the time just when we got home perhaps by you know we 'd get home at nine , by quarter past nine er we saw the Zeppelin come over . |
| 14 | So I flipped some cattle from the farm of and right between Egilsay and Rousay just a short distance , oh maybe a quarter of a miles or thereby , and oh did the shipping perfectly well and and went home and by the time I got home the message had arrived back before me that the there were two old cattle among the younger ones that the fellow had put there just to feed up and the last we saw of them was going up over the island and that was okay we thought everything was okay . |
| 15 | And they put back nutrients into the soil , too , both directly and by the decomposition of their dead remains through the agency of creatures such as worms , bacteria , fungi , moulds and so on . |
| 16 | The general demoralization of Soviet society during the Brezhnev period affected the militia also and by the 1980s widespread corruption was reported . |
| 17 | The balanced budget multiplier states that ‘ increasing both and by the same amount raises income by . |
| 18 | Joe had n't the faintest idea what I was talking about but he worked away enthusiastically and by the next afternoon we were ready to hang the rope-ladder . |
| 19 | While he may fell constrained electorally and by the highly effective brewers ' lobby to keep the increase on drink to the rate of inflation , nobody will worry too much if the duty of cigarettes is increased , as widely predicted , by double the inflation rate . |
| 20 | The two main parts of Limoges were separated geographically and by the fact that each had its own enclosure . |
| 21 | Hunter sees his job as leading the Association along a road that has already been clearly charted by the President 's Conference two years ago and by the strategy review seminar last year . |
| 22 | The Northmen ( Norsemen ) settled here and by the early tenth century were converted to Christianity and began to build churches . |
| 23 | You do n't erm the other day I thought to myself I 'll walk up , see if that shop 's still there and by the time , you know er I was dreaming obviously , and I 'd walked by , I 'd got time actually , I was killing time so er I thought oh you silly I said er you 've still not er found out , so I went back and it is there but it 's not some , it 's not a shop |
| 24 | and you 're thinking how did he get from there and by the time you 've worked out how he got from there to there you 've |
| 25 | mother-in-law 's there and by the time I get to Filey |
| 26 | The success of the scheme was rapid and spectacular , borne along by the enthusiasm of organisers and experimental staff alike and by the conviction that here was a programme far more relevant and exciting than anything Kenya had had previously ( which it was ) . |
| 27 | A Aequidens rivulatus got its common name back in the days when medium-sized fish were few and far between and by the standards then it was a Terror of an aquarium fish . |
| 28 | The business grew steadily and by the time I joined in 1962 we were manufacturing and selling about 20,000 tonnes yearly . |
| 29 | Then the scene changes , it starts all over again and by the end we 're all wound up . |
| 30 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |