Example sentences of "at [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suddenly became aware that she must have been thinking of Naylor Massingham for quite a bit of the journey , when she was all at once incredibly jolted by a question that flashed into her head out of nowhere . |
| 2 | The people who make up this brain drain are the backbone of the transnational capitalist class , the class whose political role is to persuade co-nationals that their interests are identical with , or at least best served by , those of the TNCs . |
| 3 | He concludes : ‘ So although at first it is also natural for civilized people to condemn out of hand what I had just witnessed as disgraceful heathen bestiality , they , too , if they were honest might come to feel it was at least partly redeemed by the genuine religious conviction on which it is based . ’ |
| 4 | But I can not help wondering whether the dark mood of the ballet was at least partly influenced by Britten 's opera Peter Grimes , which also included episodes of fishermen mending their nets . |
| 5 | This is at least partly influenced by the fact that , if the exchange closes , wholesale customers can often find the means to carry on trading amongst themselves . |
| 6 | By concentrating on the international dimension of the UK 's crossroads we are saying that the structural changes are conditioned by the UK 's international position — — however we conceive it — and are at least partly determined by structural changes in the international economy . |
| 7 | The placement of tonic stress is still to some extent an unsolved mystery ; it is clear , though , that it is at least partly determined by the larger context ( linguistic and non-linguistic ) in which the tone-unit occurs . |
| 8 | Theo 's fears that his brother was on a self-destructive course must have been at least partly eased by this letter . |
| 9 | However , during 1990 Deng 's position as leader was at least partly eclipsed by the rise to prominence of the anti-reformist economist Chen Yun . |
| 10 | This mass exodus is at least partly explained by the fact that St-Nom-La-Breteche is the course which will host the Girls ' European Junior Team championships from July 8–11 . |
| 11 | Even those who could not , or would not derive any benefit from this advice , must be at least partly seduced by its clarity and persuasiveness . |
| 12 | This has been at least implicitly recognised by pluralists because , as Polsby suggests , if true , the elitists ' and Marxists contention of the importance of non-observable influences and constraints emanating from one class or group would have important repercussions for the way in which one characterises Western political systems . |
| 13 | These replaced or supplemented the now traditional export crops of the same kind — the declining sugar from the Caribbean and Brazil , cotton from the southern states of America , whose trade was at least temporarily wrecked by the Civil War of 1861–5 . |
| 14 | That is , the whole of its nature or reality is at least adequately given by this description . |
| 15 | These results suggested that in ulcerative colitis , the aberrant mucosal production of IgG1 and IgG2 does not depend on active disease , but is apparently at least partially explained by a genetic impact . |
| 16 | In normal times , Selborne and Steel-Maitland would have been tolerated and both would have been at least partially silenced by the restraint of office . |
| 17 | However , although theoretically this assigned a primary role to the struggles of colonial peoples ( a position which seemed to be at least partially vindicated by events in Turkey , Persia , India and China ) , Soviet foreign-policy considerations determined that discussion of colonial problems be suppressed at the 1921 Third Congress . |
| 18 | The response to intravenous ethanol seems to be at least partially mediated by cholinergic nerves . |
| 19 | We can now see persona as a socially negotiated , linguistically realised manifestation of " footing " , animated by the speaker and mediated by the speaker 's existing stereotypes ( at least partially shared by other participants in the interaction . ) |
| 20 | In a statement the department of transport says : ’ It 's a complex repair operation , but engineers are working round the clock and hope to have the bridge at least partially opened by early April , providing they do n't encounter any major problems . ’ |
| 21 | For example , refractive errors ( those defects in the shape of the eye that prevent light rays from being brought sharply on to the retina in a single focus and which include short-sightedness , long-sightedness and astigmatism can often be at least partially corrected by the provision of appropriate lenses in eyeglasses . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is fair to assume that a clause such as the one identified above is at least potentially caught by s3 . |
| 23 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |