Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Month followed month without news — we clung to every shred of hope — was he a prisoner , or perhaps even hidden by the French Resistance ? |
| 2 | All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s . |
| 3 | For new applicants , different councils ' rules and regulations on allocations may be more or less strictly enforced by local officials . |
| 4 | Hence he is more or less permanently associated by middle class opinion with a back region . |
| 5 | The question is , will interest rates be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in money supply , and will aggregate demand be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in interest rates ? |
| 6 | The question is , will interest rates be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in money supply , and will aggregate demand be strongly or only slightly affected by changes in interest rates ? |
| 7 | For those alarmed , mystified or just inexplicably fascinated by the whys and wherefores of the Data Protection Act , the Data protection Registrar is holding a series of free one-day seminars on ‘ Understanding Data Protection ’ around the country in March . |
| 8 | The mill was then possibly sold to Richard Webb , clothier , or more likely leased by Hudson and Henry Willoby to him . |
| 9 | Images captured from TV , sent back from space , or more prosaically produced by a document scanner , are likely to fall into the same category . |
| 10 | The uncertainty may be reduced or even completely removed by obtaining relevant information . |
| 11 | Yet in almost every case of this kind the difficulty of relating theory to practice , of showing that radically reforming policies were inspired or even strongly influenced by theories of enlightened government , is marked . |
| 12 | For some policyholders the increase is partially or even wholly offset by adjustments made to the premiums for |
| 13 | The discontent with Rome had at last resulted in rebellions of slaves and of the lower classes , indirectly or even directly supported by those who at the two opposite corners of the Roman Empire were trying to defend their own independence , the Spanish tribes and Mithridates , king of Pontus . |
| 14 | This was repertory that , as recently as the 1970s , was recorded by some Continental ensembles with voices doubled or sometimes even replaced by lutes , trumpets , fiddles and other instruments . |
| 15 | Now that new evidence , either not released before or else wilfully ignored by earlier historians , is available , these charges can be reduced to their proper perspective . |
| 16 | In general , the property of the non-conformist churches is administered either directly by the denominational headquarters as managing trustees , or else legally held by this body as custodian trustee and managed by honourary officials from the local church membership . |
| 17 | On that severe view no Socialist could support the promotion of producers ' or workers ' , or industrial co-operatives , call them what you will , if they are described as organisations for the manufacture of goods or for the provision of services , and wholly or very largely owned by and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 18 | Overall in South America , some 22 per cent of the arid regions are severely or very severely affected by desertification and there are few remedial programmes in hand . |
| 19 | At the same time , the sentiments of pity which he who suffers punishment evokes in us can no longer be so easily nor so completely extinguished by the sentiments he has offended and which react against him ; for both are of the same nature ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 303 ) . |
| 20 | The operation , although nearly always refused by vets in Britain , has become so common in certain countries that it even has an official name . |
| 21 | However , this has happened to a considerable extent under the banner of the Welsh Office and , although clearly much affected by events in the United Kingdom as a whole , and particularly in England , the Principality now enjoys a measure of devolution in educational matters . |
| 22 | Although almost certainly influenced by Astell 's Serious Proposal to the Ladies ( 1694 ) , she attached little importance to the role of education in achieving greater equality between the sexes . |
| 23 | For those keen to travel around , the wonderfully mountainous region of Calabria is close by and most easily explored by hired car . |
| 24 | The Imperial War Museum 's arrival in the town and 300–400,000 visitors it is expected to attract every year is just the sort of development the town needs to help fend off an unjustified reputation recently and most controversially fostered by the Wall Street Journal as a dying town . |
| 25 | In Europe , it was the older trees — over 60 or even 100 years old — that were first and most severely affected by the new Waldsterben . |
| 26 | All these actors have development strategies , articulated and most actively propagated by ‘ modernizing elites ’ of one type or another ( see Gereffi and Wyman , 1987 ; Lewis and Kallab , 1986 ) . |
| 27 | Many would concur with the case most recently and most substantially argued by V. A. Kolve , that the Miller 's and Reeve 's Tales contrast with one another in these terms : the former full of liberty and light ; the latter replete with dark moral shades and tones . |
| 28 | Leaving aside the relics of the African slave-trade ( now illegal and rather effectively strangled by the British navy ) , the bulk of international migrants were Europeans , or more accurately in this period western Europeans and Germans . |
| 29 | Certainly no other nineteenth-century artist was so widely studied and so differently interpreted by the painters of the succeeding age . |
| 30 | It was the usual Friday get-together , the alcohol-free lager and prawn salad session in the pub over the road , well within range of bleeps and so heavily attended by relays of medical and senior nursing staff . |