Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 2 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 3 | He was treated pre-operatively by the physiotherapist who taught him deep breathing exercises . |
| 4 | In his Beverly Hills suit and hand-painted 1950s tie , Kaufman looked like a divorce lawyer in ‘ LA Law ’ ; his presence at the Tory Party 's autumn festival could be explained only by the need to earn a crust ; he had been invited by the BBC , no doubt , to comment on the proceedings . |
| 5 | By the eighteenth century salutes were normally given merely by the firing of guns , not by the more humiliating lowering of the flag or striking of sails . |
| 6 | Note that , if the key that has been requested is not present on the file , the unsuccessful search length is potentially limited only by the size of the file . |
| 7 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 8 | An open question invites a ‘ free ’ answer , recorded in full with the detail limited only by the space on the form . |
| 9 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 10 | Normal free-sparring in the training hall is limited only by the number of people there , so you can pick up bad competition habits through using space uneconomically . |
| 11 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 12 | The clinical usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction thus seems to be limited only by the power of our imagination in identifying specific targets . |
| 13 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 14 | The creative element in such notes is limited only by the imagination of you , the user . |
| 15 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 16 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 17 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 18 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 19 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 20 | The principle of induction can not be justified merely by an appeal to logic . |
| 21 | The parallels of the extreme behaviourist and the extreme hereditarian meet at a finite point and join hands in mystic union , like the snake with its tail in its mouth , welded together by the acetylene torch of commitment to one approach and one answer to a multitude of questions . |
| 22 | The point is , only one of the two can come out of his little door at any one time , not just because that would make impossible weather , but because the two little men are joined together by a metal bar : one has to stay in if the other one is out . |
| 23 | The award is given annually by the Author 's Club on the recommendation of the RIBA 's Professional Literature Committee . |
| 24 | This facility can be started/stopped only by the LIFESPAN Manager . |
| 25 | The scene had been altered only by the season . |
| 26 | It could have been taken , he reckoned , from the very spot where he was standing , capturing the scene much as it now was , altered only by the onset of winter . |
| 27 | Clearly , such a drastic change in the law could be undertaken only by the legislature . |
| 28 | These are the Department of Education and Training ( DET ) , responsible for providing education to African children living in ‘ white designated areas ’ ; the departments responsible for education in the so-called ‘ self-governing states ’ or bantustans/homelands ( Kwazulu , Lebowa , Gazankulu , Kangwane , Kwandebele and Qwaqwa ) ; and finally there are Ministries of Education in the so-called ‘ independent states ’ of Transkei , Bophuthatswana , Ciskei and Venda , whose ‘ independence ’ is recognized only by the South African government . |
| 29 | This interpretation of trust law is founded on well established authorities and could probably be overturned only by a decision of the House of Lords . |
| 30 | Alternatively , when the costs of transport are high and local production can be justified only by the creation of a single plant , competitors may choose to collaborate , as in the case of consortium oil refineries . |