Example sentences of "and [adv] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , they were quite an elite band of brothers , but it was possible to break into the circle , and eventually by a stroke of luck and a bit of help from one of Vincent 's crew who took pity on me , I managed to get a short spell of leave relief on HMRC Vincent . |
| 2 | ‘ Often as he sat in Davin 's rooms in Grantham Street , wondering at his friend 's well made boots that flanked the wall pair by pair , and repeating for his friend 's simple ear the verses and cadences of others which with the veils of his own longing dejection , the rude pheoboric mind of his listener had drawn his mind towards it and flung it back again , drawing it by a quiet inbred courtesy of attention , or by a quaint turn of Old English speech , or by the force of its delight in rude bodily skills , for Davin had sat at the feet of Michael Cussack the game , repelling it swiftly and suddenly by a grossness of intelligence , or by a bluntness of feeling , or by a dull stare of terror in the eyes , the terror of sole of starving Irish village in which the curfew was still a nightly fear . |
| 3 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 4 | Sub-section ( 4 ) provided that the power to re-hear should be exercisable only within 28 days of the order/sentence/finding of guilt as the case may be and only by a court constituted in the same manner as that which made the earlier decision . |
| 5 | Substantially , however , by convention , the actual power is today exercised , in all but a few relatively minor exceptional cases , by Ministers of the Crown , by the Prime Ministers of the Crown particularly , and especially by a select group of senior Ministers of the Crown meeting in Cabinet . |
| 6 | The historical and social claim to professional autonomy is counterproductive in an environment where pedagogic autonomy is increasingly inhibited , entry to teaching is controlled by DES policy and not by a professional body , conditions of employment are nationally prescribed and major management initiatives , such as staff development , appraisal , recruitment and promotion , are increasingly subject to DES guidelines . |
| 7 | But from the peace of your Munro , all such regrets at its passing as a place of tranquillity vanish and it unveils its wilder delights at the east to those who come by foot and not by a knob-head 's speed boat . |
| 8 | The frequency of sessions should be determined by the patient 's needs and not by a rigid ( e.g. weekly ) schedule . |
| 9 | It 's best to leave the cutting of the opening to a professional builder unless you are skilled , because you will need to know the number and size of needles ( the temporary horizontal supporting timbers that past through the wall , carried on adjustable vertical props ) , and you will have to provide a firm base on which to stand the upright props , which have to be supported on the ground , and not by a wooden floor . |
| 10 | Here the houses would be occupied by one family and not by a dozen or more assorted tenants . |
| 11 | This meant more than the elimination of exploitation , which had already been achieved in the Stalinist period : it meant the elimination of the oppression of man by man , which could be achieved only by the working class itself and not by a bureaucracy on its behalf . |
| 12 | That was true , and if it suggested they had been alerted by the security pass and not by a friend in the underpaid BBC World Service , then so much the better . |
| 13 | For the Formalists originality is constituted only by a reworking of the available devices and not by a personal vision in the lived experience of writers . |
| 14 | I 've served on that one , and the whole business of the organisation has generally speaking been run by the executive and not by a full council . |
| 15 | Sometimes a tooth will become decayed which will need to be extracted with an anaesthetic and thus by a veterinary surgeon . |
| 16 | Between them is a third cell , represented inside by a stone-vaulted unit and outside by a strong buttress on the north side . |
| 17 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 18 | They were soon identified as potential customers by tradesmen , bankers , building societies , and insurance companies , then by streetcar and railway companies , by the publishers of newspapers , journals , and cheap novels , and finally by a whole army of showmen whose task it was to inveigle the masses into circuses , fairgrounds , peepshows , roller-skating pavilions , theatres , and sporting fixtures . |
| 19 | The administration of Yorkshire is now in good hands , expertly led by Sir Lawrence Byford and chief executive Chris Hassall and shortly by a committee which will be reduced by half to cut the waffling and dissent . |
| 20 | The fact that in every instance she was chaperoned , at least by a detective and usually by a group of other friends too , never seemed relevant . |
| 21 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |
| 22 | She believes that the most efficient way for pupils to learn mathematics is by being told what to do , and preferably by a teacher , rather than a textbook . |
| 23 | This was achieved partly by a classical series of experiments to study the action of acetylcholine and atropine on their targets ( receptors ) in ‘ simple ’ test objects such as the isolated heart of the frog , and partly by a painstaking and even-handed re-evaluation of the welter of information of very variable quality that was already available . |
| 24 | He supplemented his income by petty thieving from his pupils ' parents , and also by a touch of blackmail , often finding his benefactors had been slightly compromised with the serving staff . |
| 25 | The SAS was to be augmented by a number of men from 1 Special Service Regiment , who were untrained in desert raiding , and also by a naval party and even two tanks . |
| 26 | A detailed study of the White Paper proposals is being made by the ARPS Legislation Committee and also by a special Privatisation Sub-Committee set up by the Association of Independent Railways . |
| 27 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 28 | ( h ) To borrow and raise money in any manner and to secure the repayment of any money borrowed , raised or owing by mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or other security upon the whole or any part of the Company 's property or assets ( whether present or future ) , including its uncalled capital , and also by a similar mortgage , charge , standard security , lien or security to secure and guarantee the performance by the Company of any obligation or liability it may undertake or which may become binding on it . |
| 29 | We crept down into the hall , through the kitchen and out by a small postern door . |
| 30 | My attention is drawn back to the unpleasant here and now by a banging gavel : thunder shakes the firmament . |