Example sentences of "[adv] by [noun pl] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that dissolute , pleasurable and wasted place , no wonder he 's threatened by people who decide to use their intelligence differently , and especially by women who do n't fit a stereotype that bolsters the ludicrous notion that He is a Superior Being . |
| 2 | Edward Thompson maintains that for a variety of reasons traditional pursuits were strongly resilient through the eighteenth century and were weakened only by forces which developed in the nineteenth . |
| 3 | It is applied in molten form — making it a voidless , seamless material — only by craftsmen who have served a four-year apprenticeship . |
| 4 | Synthesis was achieved only after some years , and only by methods which did not justify expansion to an industrial scale . |
| 5 | And , yes , Edward could point out that we live in a time when the very meaning of the word myth has been debased , that it has come to signify only what is untrue , false , misleading ; and , yes , I could largely agree that it is nevertheless by myths we live , and what matters is how large the contrary truths a myth reconciles in its embrace . |
| 6 | About 60 Kurdish refugees tried to mount a demonstration in Terminal 2 but were led away by police who said it was illegal under airport by-laws . |
| 7 | Dave was led away by police who arrested then released him without a formal charge . |
| 8 | This term has , in practice , been used generally by dealers who want to impress their clients . |
| 9 | ACRUCIAL step towards the production of an Aids vaccine was announced yesterday by researchers who have successfully immunised eight of nine monkeys against infection with one strain of an HIV-like virus . |
| 10 | That was just one of many ironies relished yesterday by Americans who had learned to loathe Mrs Helmsley for her ‘ only the little people pay taxes ’ remark , her greed , and her notorious arrogance . |
| 11 | The unusual appeal was made yesterday by police who have reopened the case of Moira Anderson , 12 , who vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February , 1957 . |
| 12 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
| 13 | The ambiguities of the parent — child relationship in these last years are also evident from two Lancashire accounts , both by writers who had become trade unionists . |
| 14 | The bust was mutilated in late antiquity , probably by Christians who carved a cross in the forehead . |
| 15 | Turning now to a social security system financed solely by employers we begin with an equilibrium wage at W1 and employment at L1 ( Fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 16 | As Mason , the British heavyweight champion , has been brought forward along similar lines , his career nourished mainly by opponents who showed little inclination to remain upright , it should be clear that Biggs is thought to represent an ideal opportunity for advancement . |
| 17 | The crystalline regions are held together sideways by hydroxyls which have got rid of all their attached water molecules and once the system has locked solid into a regular crystal , the interstices of the crystal become inaccessible to water . |
| 18 | The brother of Yucel Ozen , who died in custody on 24 November 1991 after interrogation at Beyoglu Police Station , claims that he had been telephoned frequently by police who made veiled threats and advised him no to press his complaint concerning his brother 's death . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's very difficult to replace that sort of quality , particularly by clubs who do n't spend a great deal of money . |
| 20 | I was raped twice by men I dated before I was married , and was raped on numerous occasions throughout my twelve year marriage . |
| 21 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 22 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 23 | IT IS a rather puzzling irony that in a country where we are apparently so obsessed with our homes , such a huge proportion of our new houses are mass produced boxes which are put up speculatively by developers who have little knowledge of their end customers ' needs and requirements . |
| 24 | His job was made all the more easier by drivers who had n't bothered to take measures to stop people like him . |
| 25 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 26 | Not the slightest mention of money , either , for an interview in depth from , offhand , Gavaskar , Richards , Botham , Willis , Marshall , McEnroe , Connors or Borg — though the latter , I must admit , was expecting me to stay the day , yet by elevenses we agreed there was not much more to say to each other except ‘ My game 's in pretty good shape ’ . |
| 27 | He never slept in the same place , and his meals were prepared mostly by women he trusted — his partner , Vicky Amado and her mother . |
| 28 | Even so , he accepted that the maintenance of large landholdings , run predominantly by whites who had supported Ian Smith , was crucial to the economic well-being of his nation . |
| 29 | But erm I was er somewhat put off altogether by comments I heard from people who had been in much closer contact than I was because I , I saw him very little of him really . |
| 30 | The full theoretical significance of this idea has only been demonstrated recently by anthropologists who have turned again to Marx in order to find a framework in which to place their observations [ Gedelier , 1977 ] . |