Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 2 | The noises of the place went on around him , muffled only slightly by the mists and vapours ; he could hear shouted instructions and curses , the clanking of ladles and giant spatulas , the hiss and splutter of frying , the sloshing of water and soups , the grating of giant pans being moved , the machine-gun chatter of chopping knives . |
| 3 | Public enterprises have been forced into a greater orientation to the market by increasing exposure to competition and a relaxation of their statutory monopolies : a strategy used most notably by the post-1979 Conservative government in Britain . |
| 4 | He moved slowly up by the side of the bed , and now he said , ‘ Are … are you all right ? ’ and he saw the bedclothes that she was holding under her chin rise and fall with the movement of her neck before she said , ‘ Yes . |
| 5 | His nose began to water , and the grime from his lips was carried slowly downwards by the fluid in two , dirty streams which he made no effort to check . |
| 6 | The astonishingly monochrome , synthetic quality of the set is modified only occasionally by the saturating splashes of blood-sachets , perfunctorily punctured over the bodies of the slain . |
| 7 | as if she were not sufficiently torn inside already by the dread news thrown at her by old Lady Usk . |
| 8 | These tendencies were carried much further by the younger men , Gibbons , Coprario , the younger Ferrabosco , Thomas Lupo , and a number of others , who would base a short section on a popular morris-dance tune ( as Gibbons does in a four-part viol fantasy ) and use motives more clear-cut in rhythmic profile sequentially as Giovanni Gabrieli does . |
| 9 | Major was understood to want to prevent the Commonwealth Conference in Harare in October from being dominated once more by the sanctions issue . |
| 10 | Ten feet in the other direction a staircase rose directly up by the side of the end wall and she made for this . |
| 11 | As my honourable friend said from the front bench , the Labour party is absolutely firmly committed now both by the voices of the leadership and the votes and the resolutions at our party conference that we are in favour of a proportional representation system for the European parliament and I hope that when the elections come Mr Deputy Speaker , and people will be arguing about why they 're voting for Europe on June the ninth in one boundary as opposed to another and why they 've got erm erm different rules for this election of course as indeed for the last European election because the registration will be different , allowing all kinds of erm how can I put it foreigners in inverted commas , to vote in our elections in this country because it is the European elections that we will actually put the point across that er for the future there will be different arrangements made indeed . |
| 12 | Their little brother had fallen in and was being carried fast downstream by the current . |
| 13 | Perhaps , though , it was Pepper 's display which exposed some of their deficiencies for the impetus was created and maintained almost exclusively by the forwards , who dominated the lineout and drove magnificently . |
| 14 | And the Quixote himself sounds too light , and lacks that dominating nobility of expression that allows him to impose himself suddenly on a scene hitherto occupied almost exclusively by the Boy and the orchestra . |
| 15 | A wedding was a great earner , for on top of the handsome fee which was traditionally the obligation of the bride 's family the exuberance of the occasion invariably resulted in his being tipped quite generously by the groom 's family as well . |
| 16 | But any vertiginous feelings are stabilized almost immediately by the rhetoric that enfolds the band ( which they severely resent ) , which recruits their private obsessions into a grand scheme of subterranean resistance . |
| 17 | Thus , the choice of communities was constrained quite sharply by the analytical goals of the research . |
| 18 | The sparkling fresh water and grassy banks being sullied twice daily by the flotsam and jetsam of the Severn . |
| 19 | If there is a need for legislation in areas of prison policy , surely this is one area that ought to be considered very quickly by the Government . |
| 20 | This aspect is being addressed very successfully by the Medical Audit Advisory Groups . |
| 21 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 22 | In the final analysis the full impact of reform will be felt most keenly by the thousands of Scottish men and women whose income falls the wrong side of the line . |
| 23 | This indifference was naturally felt most acutely by the countries like Kenya in the second group of borrowers and by countries like Brazil in the fourth . |
| 24 | It was the criticisms of costs and complexity in small claims , put most convincingly by the Consumer Council in Justice Out of Reach , which led to the procedural reforms of the early 1970s . |
| 25 | He turned and caught her looking at him as they strolled idly along by the whispering dark Mediterranean , and impulsively he stopped and pulled her into his arms for a quick hard hug . |
| 26 | Matched only perhaps by the uninterestingness of the minds and souls of such painters . |
| 27 | His Inspector Purbright is a very ordinary man , distinguished only perhaps by the mildly quizzical view of life and humanity he possesses . |
| 28 | In the decentralizing authority the exercise of that influence is made much easier by the offer of participant status in the administration and development of local policy . |
| 29 | Those seen so far by the Guardian are highly unflattering . |
| 30 | Then , letting his actions be shaped once more by the dream , he set off , carrying the boy back down the broad main corridor towards the guard post and the lift beyond . |