Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Usually the classes and groups most adversely affected by soil erosion are politically weak , disunited and spatially separated . |
| 2 | Others , such as Morris ( 1972 ) , Panitch ( 1980 ) and Diamant ( 1981 ) , think that corporatism must be bureaucratic , but meaning that the state will be dependent on expert officials operating according to technocratic norms only loosely controlled by a political elite . |
| 3 | Not only will the specialist interest programme go but so too will the minority programmes so carefully nurtured by organizations seeking to satisfy a broad spectrum of interests and groups . |
| 4 | * These are reprinted , along with other of Sickert 's writings in the invaluable booklet Walter Sickert ; Advice to young Artists so expertly edited by Lynda Morris , and published to coincide with the Norwich School of Art Gallery exhibition of works by Sickert in May 1986 , to which I am greatly indebted . |
| 5 | Yusuf 's forces returned in strength and began to win back many of the states so recently conquered by Alfonso and by El Cid in their separate campaigns . |
| 6 | We know that niello is a metal sulphide , made by heating metal filings with sulphur , but could there be a continuity of tradition amongst the metalworkers of cultures so widely separated by time and geography ? |
| 7 | Even a Board of Guardians so unusually influenced by Labour as that of Poplar was reluctant to pay out-door relief to the unemployed . |
| 8 | The " mosaic units phenomenon , observed by Moore , and proposed as a " spontaneous occurrence of order from randomly selected particles " offers further corroboration : certain sizes of tesserae and motifs are shown to provide maximum adaptability of design , because they are proportional to the abstract units most frequently produced by " processes of spontaneous ordering " . |
| 9 | The birth control methods most commonly used by working class families were as readily available in 1870 as they were in 1950 . |
| 10 | In the notion of sameness there are ambiguities and ambivalences only dimly noticed by few people at the time . |
| 11 | The filthy colonial military compounds so recently evacuated by the British and French provided convenient quarters for those who were now destined to spend most of their lives in exile , even though neither they nor their unwilling Lebanese hosts yet knew that they would have to do so . |
| 12 | This was the actuality of the pretty designs so liberally provided by the cottage enthusiasts of the time . |
| 13 | She took to living in her swimsuit , a colourful sarong tied at her hips , long black hair streaming loose and silken down her slender back , and Damian would watch her with intent eyes as she moved around the house , his eyes eating her up as she grew more and more sensual , her inhibitions almost completely erased by his lovemaking . |
| 14 | Sorting through stock on library shelves usually involves a number of other activities not strictly described by the term ‘ weeding ’ — for instance , identifying books for binding , replacement , cleaning , etc . |
| 15 | He showed some incredible coloured slides giving close-up detail of petal formation and patterns not often seen by the naked eye . |
| 16 | Following the announcement by CEGB in 1980 of five sites to be investigated as possible locations for a new nuclear power station in South West England , the investigator surveyed the attitudes and beliefs concerning energy issues , and nuclear power in particular , held by residents of the communities most closely affected by these proposals . |
| 17 | In most cases this has meant that steel fences and wire grilles have been built around the Ends and the areas most frequently occupied by young visiting supporters . |
| 18 | Delegates discussed ways of compensating 50 Third-World countries most seriously affected by the Gulf crisis and criticized the international community for failing to respond adequately to the consequences of the economic blockade of Iraq . |
| 19 | Indeed those who drew up the blue-print for the Common Market in the 1956 Spaak Report sought to make available to Europeans those advantages so long enjoyed by US manufacturers in the USA 's single market . |
| 20 | This will include various loops and sidings not normally used by passenger services . |
| 21 | The parties to a takeover offer are required to observe the spirit as well as the letter of the Code and must accept that the spirit of the Code will apply in areas not specifically covered by any rule . |
| 22 | In this atmosphere Catholic scholarship has flourished , increasingly in an ecumenical setting and moving in directions not yet envisaged by Dei Verbum . |
| 23 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 24 | So from our knowledge of entities and goings-on in the real world , as well as from our knowledge , acquired from the text , of the fictional world , we are able to postulate the nature of the fictional world , drawing inferences about matters not directly communicated by the text . |
| 25 | Ultra vires is obviously a restrictive doctrine ( although local authorities are permitted to raise a 2p rate to finance functions not specifically authorized by statute ) . |
| 26 | A family characterised by the disk covered with small plates usually completely concealed by a dense coating of granules in adult specimens ; the radial shields usually visible ; the oral papillae forming a continuous series with the apical papillae ; the second oral tentacle scale opens within the mouth slit ; the arm spines short may be numerous , and appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 27 | The move by the LECs , part of the Highlands and Islands Enterprise network , aims to create new jobs in areas recently worst hit by the downturn in oil fabrication work . |
| 28 | These are Houseparties that move by motor from one idyllic anchorage to another , often visiting places only ever seen by yachtsmen . |
| 29 | The colonial form of government can perhaps be described as a ruling bureaucracy in the sense of government by appointed officials only slightly modified by the gradual emergence of consultative , advisory and legislative councils . |
| 30 | In the meantime , ministers conducted individual diplomatic initiatives on the basis of Egyptian ideas not yet discussed by the government . |