Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case in fact that was put forward by the North Yorkshire County Council Highways and Traffic committee was in fact that the need as so clearly expressed by Mr is that it is the A fifty nine that needs the relief more than anything else an therefore the proposal is that the northern relief road be it an inner or an outer , be built first . |
| 2 | He was experiencing something utterly new for him : his first controlled passage into a geistzone under the guidance of an oolerinnen ; his first safe transit of the threshold for so long guarded by the bone , wood and bird-wing magic of the shaman . |
| 3 | Then Hughes , for so long dogged by the determined attentions of marker Guennady Fillimonov , suddenly shook himself into space before blasting from the edge of the box but Podshivalov reacted superbly . |
| 4 | The book by Clifford Joseph is in a sense the more readable and will perhaps be in more readily appreciated by the none-specialist in tax matters who wishes to understand the essentials of the tax but is not necessarily concerned with an exhaustive treatment of the subject . |
| 5 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 6 | The people who make up this brain drain are the backbone of the transnational capitalist class , the class whose political role is to persuade co-nationals that their interests are identical with , or at least best served by , those of the TNCs . |
| 7 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 8 | But I can not help wondering whether the dark mood of the ballet was at least partly influenced by Britten 's opera Peter Grimes , which also included episodes of fishermen mending their nets . |
| 9 | This is at least partly influenced by the fact that , if the exchange closes , wholesale customers can often find the means to carry on trading amongst themselves . |
| 10 | By concentrating on the international dimension of the UK 's crossroads we are saying that the structural changes are conditioned by the UK 's international position — — however we conceive it — and are at least partly determined by structural changes in the international economy . |
| 11 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 12 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 13 | However , during 1990 Deng 's position as leader was at least partly eclipsed by the rise to prominence of the anti-reformist economist Chen Yun . |
| 14 | This mass exodus is at least partly explained by the fact that St-Nom-La-Breteche is the course which will host the Girls ' European Junior Team championships from July 8–11 . |
| 15 | Even those who could not , or would not derive any benefit from this advice , must be at least partly seduced by its clarity and persuasiveness . |
| 16 | This has been at least implicitly recognised by pluralists because , as Polsby suggests , if true , the elitists ' and Marxists contention of the importance of non-observable influences and constraints emanating from one class or group would have important repercussions for the way in which one characterises Western political systems . |
| 17 | These replaced or supplemented the now traditional export crops of the same kind — the declining sugar from the Caribbean and Brazil , cotton from the southern states of America , whose trade was at least temporarily wrecked by the Civil War of 1861–5 . |
| 18 | That is , the whole of its nature or reality is at least adequately given by this description . |
| 19 | These results suggested that in ulcerative colitis , the aberrant mucosal production of IgG1 and IgG2 does not depend on active disease , but is apparently at least partially explained by a genetic impact . |
| 20 | In normal times , Selborne and Steel-Maitland would have been tolerated and both would have been at least partially silenced by the restraint of office . |
| 21 | However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress . |
| 22 | The response to intravenous ethanol seems to be at least partially mediated by cholinergic nerves . |
| 23 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 24 | In a statement the department of transport says : ’ It 's a complex repair operation , but engineers are working round the clock and hope to have the bridge at least partially opened by early April , providing they do n't encounter any major problems . ’ |
| 25 | For example , refractive errors ( those defects in the shape of the eye that prevent light rays from being brought sharply on to the retina in a single focus and which include short-sightedness , long-sightedness and astigmatism can often be at least partially corrected by the provision of appropriate lenses in eyeglasses . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is fair to assume that a clause such as the one identified above is at least potentially caught by s3 . |
| 27 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |
| 28 | The servants were by now so confused by beer and excitement that they were not sure of anything at all . |
| 29 | The railway , by then completely absorbed by the L.M.S. , was completely dismantled in 1936 . |