Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can calculate all too clearly that the average value of sterling has fallen 17.5 per cent , ( and over 25 per cent against the dollar ) since September , and the price of fuel and raw materials for industry has so far risen by just over 10 per cent , while retail prices have actually fallen . |
| 2 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 3 | The numbers of places in day nurseries ( the only state day-care provision ) declined steadily after the Second World War , and has only recently increased by a tiny amount . |
| 4 | Yeah , but he do n't , he looks so hard done by I do n't think . |
| 5 | It was becoming more widely accepted by our management that , with the increasing sophistication of our craft and equipment and the growth in crew numbers , proper training for all crewing officers was becoming essential . |
| 6 | Stark however was keen to distinguish knowledge from ideology and in this he differentiated himself from Mannheim 's position which he regarded as too dominated by Marxism ( Stark 1958 : 104 ) . |
| 7 | It is noteworthy that only London Authorities appear as most deprived by these criteria . |
| 8 | Later a bypass was provided for the Gotthard traffic , and since the Swiss through-road from Basel to Chiasso ( on the Italian frontier ) was finally completed in 1986 , fast through traffic using the road from Basel has no longer passed by way of canton Schwyz and Axenstrasse . |
| 9 | One does n't want to wallow in the nostalgia trap so temptingly set by TV Heaven and its bebow-tied host Frank Muir ( though they show Honor Blackman in her Avengers leather kit , it 's hard to resist ) , but Old Boy Network is a long way from The Likely Lads . |
| 10 | Walkowitz was one of the hundreds of artists from all over the world who flocked to Paris during the opening decade of our century and came away profoundly changed by the experience . |
| 11 | You remember the American astronauts , how they went to the moon and came back totally changed by looking at the earth and seeing it like just any old planet all small and a long way away ? |
| 12 | The problem of demand overload was seen as further compounded by two related factors . |
| 13 | As pesticides became more widely used by most farmers , ‘ organic ’ farming took on a broader meaning — the crops were not sprayed with synthetic pesticides either . |
| 14 | A diving duck most easily recognised by strikingly peaked , almost triangular shape of head : also has distinctive white neck , broad white wing-bars and yellow eye . |
| 15 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Every shop shall , save as otherwise provided by this Part of this Act , be closed for the serving of customers on Sunday : Provided that a shop may be open for the serving of customers on Sunday for the purposes of any transaction mentioned in Schedule 5 to this Act . |
| 17 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |
| 18 | These have served to highlight deficiencies of supply , critical gaps of a general kind , rendered ever more pointed by the potential impact of the intended reforms . |
| 19 | Overall , the discipline in the UK has become more heavily dominated by those who espouse sociology 's political role . |
| 20 | When each captive reached the loading ramp leading to the back of the truck , it walked calmly aboard guided by its escorts . |
| 21 | Yet now we 're told indie bands should n't be allowed to make dance records ( because they do n't understand it ) , that at the start these bands wee quite rightly isolated by house ( ’ Here was the nation 's party in full swing and they could n't get in ’ ) . |
| 22 | The European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund grants are available to the areas of Shotton , Flint , Rhyl and Wrexham designated as seriously affected by industrial decline . |
| 23 | She merely wanted to be whisked from luxury hotel to draught-free concert hall in a big limousine , there to play to an attentive , elegant audience and be driven away again surrounded by encores and orchids . |
| 24 | Gollum wins them round by saying how hard done by he is and they take pity on him . |
| 25 | I know many reading this must feel as I feel : torn between the raw genius of Morrissey 's Smiths writing and his latest batch of tunes , which I personally feel very much cheated by . |
| 26 | It was apparent that the department felt rather less threatened by the prospect of the appraisal after the process had been described in more detail . |
| 27 | Rozario 's lay off well read by Whitlow Agnew Ormanroyd and now Oldfield . |
| 28 | In time , however , he introduced modifications which overcame most of the problems , and his engines became quite well liked by their drivers and firemen . |
| 29 | Among other vegetation , coniferous and beech trees appeared most seriously affected by increased radiation . |
| 30 | and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time . |