Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] by [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would require relief so frequently that their unemployment could only be covered by unrealistically high contributions . |
| 2 | In many statements of this sort racism is likened to a contagious disease , which people catch off each other , or a cancer in the body politic , something which can only be stopped by either eliminating its carriers , or protecting others , especially children , from contact with its ‘ breeding grounds ’ . |
| 3 | Usually it is covert and can only be diagnosed by specifically measuring blood lipids . |
| 4 | Similarly , a fair exchange of values can only be realized by either a broad doctrine of unconscionability or a reversal of the rule that a court will not assess the adequacy of consideration . |
| 5 | His close-set eyes daily reviewed documents which would otherwise only be seen by perhaps half a dozen people — up to and including the President himself . |
| 6 | Our ability to negotiate a better deal for our people can only be strengthened by ever greater co-operation with other countries . |
| 7 | Thus Moore , Rhodes and Tyler conclude that ‘ for every 100 jobs created by regional policy , unemployment in Development Areas may only be reduced by perhaps 30 . ’ |
| 8 | The forces are larger than in the experiment of Roll , Krotkov , and Dicke but the torque can only be reversed by bodily rotating the apparatus , which gives large and irreversible effects that vitiate the method . |
| 9 | These problems can only be resolved by more elaborate and sophisticated calculations . |
| 10 | For example , if there is an unexpected budgetary overshoot , the labour force can effortlessly be reduced by simply not renewing employment contracts , which is why industries are succumbing to the same ruthless logic . |
| 11 | the same results can not be obtained by less restrictive means . |
| 12 | Unlike material from the Earth and other meteorites , carbonaceous chondrites have oxygen-isotope abundances which can not be explained by purely mass-related effects . |
| 13 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 14 | Thus it is an open system rather than a closed one and its behaviour can not be understood by simply looking at the relationship between inputs and outputs . |
| 15 | If they can not be replaced by more adequate instruments , an electric keyboard can lie appropriate . |
| 16 | My faith and sights are on the lasting reality , the Zimbabwe of the future which will not be made by either the faithless or the fearful ( and sometimes I have seen both ) ; it will obviously not be won by those who run away . |
| 17 | But Mr Warren will not be affected by yesterday 's ruling . |
| 18 | It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words . |
| 19 | ‘ This is n't as lot of work if many people are involved , but it can not be done by just a handful . ’ |
| 20 | How can they develop a coherent strategy for residential care in general if the needs of dementing elderly people and their carers can not be met by more positive and appropriate patterns of care ? |
| 21 | And cash savings may not be cut by as much as the government hopes . |
| 22 | The Government later backed advice that babies should be put on their backs to sleep and not be overheated by too many blankets . |
| 23 | In the discussion document , the committee gives its opinion on the extent to which the provision of these reassurances is the responsibility of boards of directors , the extent to which it is the responsibility of external auditors and the extent to which these reassurances can not be provided by either boards of directors or external auditors . |
| 24 | However , although the National Consumer Council concluded that such schemes do make a very real contribution , and also make possible extra journeys and excursions which would not be provided by fully routed bus services , they also pointed out that the schemes could not provide a complete answer to accessibility problems in rural areas . |
| 25 | These factors can not be controlled by either the borrower or the bank , so creative restructuring will be necessary if the property company is to survive and avoid bad debt . |
| 26 | Such matters , trivial as they might seem to us , could not be left by even the most negligent monarch wholly to others . |
| 27 | Although Lord Cairns regarded the principles applicable as extremely simple , it seems clear that the common law was faced by a new and important problem which could not be solved by merely applying the existing authorities . |
| 28 | But David Evans was a fair-minded young man , and knew from his historical studies that bad luck can not be avoided by even the greatest of men . |
| 29 | A congregation must not be baffled by obscurity , but it must not be patronised by too much informality either . |
| 30 | In this way you will not be overwhelmed by too many gaps and can build on your experience one stage at a time . |