Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those keen to travel around , the wonderfully mountainous region of Calabria is close by and most easily explored by hired car . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Certainly no other nineteenth-century artist was so widely studied and so differently interpreted by the painters of the succeeding age . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Strange , is n't it , or perhaps not so strange , that the word is so much used by theoreticians and so little used by artists themselves ? |
| 10 | The rough timber , fencing , bamboo , reeds , thatch and so on used by farmers and primitive people may possibly amount to nearly as much again , but naturally , no records are available . |
| 11 | In the circumstances , hotel use was clearly a good second best , as it meant that the staterooms could be used for functions and so still seen by the public . |
| 12 | Not even American hostility to the British Empire as then constituted — and so resolutely defended by him — seriously disturbed his belief that Britain would find her main security in a transatlantic relationship . |
| 13 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 14 | It must be emphasised that the preceding information does not constitute some new revolutionary theory , but echoes a once universal understanding of the true workings of nature embraced by the knowledgeable in every high civilisation of the past , and perhaps intuitively felt by most sensitive individuals who have not been bludgeoned by the dull instruments of Western reductionism . |
| 15 | Of course , in addition to the bony structures in the limb — which are first laid down as cartilage and only later replaced by bone — there are muscles and tendons whose pattern is more complex . |
| 16 | These correlations arise because a normal mode , although formally involving the whole molecule , may actually involve significant motions of only a few atoms constituting a discrete group , and hence have a frequency primarily determined by the group and only slightly affected by the nature of the rest of the molecule . |
| 17 | The impetus of the scientific imperative was followed by technical mistakes , followed by a disastrous failure , followed by official reassurances — and only eventually concluded by official backtracking in the face of outside scepticism . |
| 18 | ‘ This young officer was highly respected by his colleagues and only recently commended by a Crown Court judge for his courageous actions during a firearms incident . |
| 19 | The yacht is very well equipped and extremely well maintained by a crew of 3 . |
| 20 | Four elements here are open to criticism : ( 1 ) the term batteur de mesure had become discredited and much less used by 1790 , because of its association with the bad old days ; ( 2 ) the ‘ large stick ’ whatever its size in 1750 , got markedly smaller by 1790 ; ( 3 ) there was no unified body of opinion which attacked ‘ woodchopping ’ over the decades : in fact Rousseau 's text , and those of his epigones , aspired to make musico-political points in favour of Italian opera as much as about beating time ; ( 4 ) audible stick signals can not be said , at least after 1781 , to have ‘ co-ordinated ’ chorus and ballet , if that implies ‘ heard as a matter of course ’ ; the evidence shows that no audible signal was thereafter heard as a matter of course . |
| 21 | It was mind-numbingly potent and generally only used by the Sinisters to calm hysterics . |
| 22 | The place itself provided few clues , only that he must be entirely devoid of imagination and not overly bothered by cold and lack of comfort . |
| 23 | Here they were , objects of suspicion to be interrogated by the police , and not even noticed by the one or two newspaper men who had arrived at the hotel . |
| 24 | While such large molar masses are now taken for granted , it was difficult in 1920 to believe and accept that these values were real and not just caused by the aggregation of much smaller molecules . |
| 25 | Moreover , restrictions were placed upon these to ensure that they would be developed and not simply held by speculators . |
| 26 | Rift Valley Cichlids and Marines live in huge areas of water which are very stable and not easily influenced by external changes . |
| 27 | Civil society is constituted by the social relationships and processes outside paid employment and not immediately affected by the state . |
| 28 | As the Sun is passing through that part of your solar chart traditionally related to hopes , you should now be in fine fettle and not unduly affected by others ' lack of support . |
| 29 | He visited the vegetable markets , renowned in Europe , where he obtained seeds of celeriac a vegetable new to England , and not readily accepted by London 's market gardeners . |
| 30 | Our responses are triggered and not always caused by these confrontations . |