Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 2 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 3 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |
| 4 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 5 | There had been a low haze hiding most of the surrounding hills , the loch had seemed suspended in some floating mirage , broken only by the oars rattling , and the water that slopped in the bottom of the boat . |
| 6 | Low comfortable chairs had been set out in a square ; too comfortable for-some , because there was a distinct buzz of snoring from the other side of a rack of trade journals , broken only by the bats ' wing rustle of folding and refolding newspaper . |
| 7 | On the first floor , he has devised one large empty space , its two side walls an uninterrupted 200 feet in length , broken only by the staircases and other services springing through its centre . |
| 8 | There was silence for a moment , punctuated only by the grunts and wheezes of the two ancient dames , until Gertrude said : |
| 9 | He is a double winner of the rally but that was some time ago and since then McKinstry has made the place very much is own , his sequence of victories punctuated only by the years in which he did not have a competitive car or the opposition included someone of the calibre of Mikael Sundstrom . |
| 10 | Miles flew by in the barren landscape , punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line . |
| 11 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 12 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 13 | We had to pass right by the men . |
| 14 | Clower referred to magnitudes such as as ‘ notional ’ quantities in the sense that firms , if they are constrained only by the parameters of their production function and a given real wage rate , w 1 , would ideally like to supply output and demand labour services . |
| 15 | All three major rail unions are affiliated to the Trades Union Congress and the Labour party , and the NUR in particular has a long tradition of sponsoring Labour MPs ( Bagwell 1982 : ch. 12 ) , ‘ equalled only by the miners ’ union' ( Eaton and Gill 1981 : 41 ) . |
| 16 | The pleasures of driving our GTi are equalled only by the irritations . |
| 17 | Note that because these are special weapons used only by the Engineers School they are not available to character models . |
| 18 | THE expression is solemn , the lines of age etched deeper by the traumas which have torn her family apart over the past year . |
| 19 | Lewis has held the world light heavyweight title for the last four years and was conceding five stone to an opponent rated highly by the Americans . |
| 20 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 21 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 22 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 23 | She felt angry with herself for getting carried away by the ideas in her head , for turning her back on reality . |
| 24 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 25 | He had almost forgotten his previous dislike of Dickens , carried away by the opportunities for rhetoric that the Great Man was so unexpectedly granting him . |
| 26 | ( In fact , Petrey suggests that this error has been committed more by the readers of Derrida and de Man than by the original authors . ) |
| 27 | The street culture of working-class youth was often attacked directly by the police ; and changes in the education system after the introduction of state elementary education after 1870 also had its effects . |
| 28 | By 1941 social surveys on the lines pioneered by Booth , Rowntree and Bowley were fully incorporated as instruments of the welfare state , impelled further by the imperatives of planning for war . |
| 29 | She felt constrained creatively by the reactions of the critics , even making conscious interventions to redress their interpretations . |
| 30 | The purpose is proved by question and answer if the defendant is driving or if he has to be interviewed later by a police officer . |