Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] and by " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is striking is that the weight of crack seized by the police was only 0.85 kilograms and by the customs only 0.05 kilograms . |
| 2 | Here he is , at the outset , reporting from Brussels : ‘ You must not imagine that I live richly here , for my chief food is dry bread and some potatoes or chestnuts which people here sell on the street corner , but by having a somewhat better room and by occasionally taking a somewhat better meal in a restaurant whenever I can afford it , I shall get on very well … . |
| 3 | It had only two doors and by the time they had been pushed roughly into the back , with the Woman leaning round in the front seat to point the small gun at them , they hardly dared to breathe . |
| 4 | Novas turned around 27–26 in front , but met a more solid defence and by the ninth minute had scored only five to Arena 's 15 . |
| 5 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 6 | Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesperson , charged the government with being ‘ concerned less with the quality of health care than with widening the role of the market in its provision — by increased competition , by more commercial medicine and by larger public subsidy of private medicine ’ . |
| 7 | They would do this by promoting a healthier population not requiring such frequent hospital admission , by providing health care in more appropriate settings and by freeing ‘ blocked ’ beds more rapidly . |
| 8 | Mr Cavaco Silva tried put the brakes on his currency by cutting key interest rates by 1 p.c. to just under 18 p.c. and by selling escudos but the pound ended the day less than 1 p.c. away from its floor of 241.5 against the Portuguese currency , despite successful British efforts over the weekend to force Portugal to join at a higher rate than the Lisbon government had planned on Friday . |
| 9 | It does allow that some religious beliefs could be defended by more rational arguments and by experience , as some people have tried to do , yet the appeal of religions for most people is emotional rather than rational and intellectual . |
| 10 | He quotes the example of hard red winter wheat which has already considerably expanded northward and northwestward since 1920 — being made possible by plant-breeding programmes of more cold-hardy strains and by the introduction of new technological advances and dry land-management practices such as summer fallow and stubble mulching . |
| 11 | These workers were of , or close to , the very poor , from the slums of East London ; they were led by more secure workers and by intellectual socialists . |
| 12 | I was there for nearly six months and by the end of the first week , I wanted to die . |
| 13 | Student allowances are often provided by the parents , themselves often low-paid intellectuals and by the mid-1980s , income could hardly keep pace with price rises . |
| 14 | Wycliffe was impressed by her seemingly transparent honesty and by her spontaneity that had something refreshingly youthful about it . |
| 15 | Yet the government , by bravely liberalising imports and by treating foreign investors more favourably , hopes in the longer run to push Brazil at last into the corral of ‘ model debtors ’ , with access to overseas money and to debt relief under the Brady plan . |
| 16 | Unlike these cherished Angevin possessions , however , Clairvaux had been held by relatively unimportant vassals and by the 1130s they seem to have become more closely attached to the Viscounts of Châtellerault . |
| 17 | It was a mammoth and indeed crippling undertaking and by the end of the Darius reign the vast empire was in decline . |
| 18 | Under ideal conditions , ordinary speakers of a language are quite capable of demonstrating their grammatical competence by producing fully grammatical utterances and by distinguishing grammatical from ungrammatical utterances ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 19 | And the situation has been aggravated by droughts in 1982 and again this year and by the introduction of free market policies in South America which have left Bolivia uncompetitive . |
| 20 | is an amazingly calm person and by her intuitive skills can bring peace to h to heated situations , an exceptionally useful gift when married to a politician . |
| 21 | He has had a very distinguished career and by dint of old-fashioned virtues and a marvellously warm personality has held the Party together on many occasions . |