Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent history of educational innovation , from Nuffield and mixed ability onwards , shows that unless change is generated and/or wholeheartedly appropriated by teachers it will end up on the mounting scrap-heap of ‘ good ideas that never quite took off ’ . |
| 2 | But here again the knowledge is so practical , so much preconditioned by behaviour , that it can be taught and is taught mainly by doing what they are told to do on particular occasions and by not being allowed to do or to touch certain things that are always within their experience . |
| 3 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 4 | But it is important not to become so mesmerized by them as to lose sight of the underlying social processes . |
| 5 | The Emperor , popularly supposed to be immortal , only endured by virtue of adamantine , anguished courage and will power . |
| 6 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 7 | Here is a key to the post-war Establishment so distrusted by Henry Fairlie and the others . |
| 8 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 9 | In Sweden , for example , the trade unions have long been well represented in government decision-making and have negotiated pay levels and labour practices much envied by their counterparts in other countries . |
| 10 | In that way , you are ahead of your age : I come from a civilization long hypnotized by the idea of its Nemesis . |
| 11 | In the tenth century the Kiev merchants used to half-drag , half-row their small boats , monoxyla , past the Dnieper rapids on the way to the Byzantine markets , constantly menaced by the ferocious Pecheneg people inhabiting the southern steppes . |
| 12 | Thus the civil wars , so decried by Gregory , actually held the kingdom together , because the struggles between members of the Merovingian family provided a focus around which other conflicts could cluster . |
| 13 | Over the same period the London equity market only rose by 341% . |
| 14 | American exports only rose by 38% between 1922 and 1929 , while the rate of manufacturing rose by 50% . |
| 15 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 16 | After scenes of tension memorably recounted by Edward Hyde , first Earl of Clarendon [ q.v . ] , |
| 17 | While they were being pinned back by the Old Course , one man was able to deliver the coup-de-grâce to St Andrews with a birdie finish , gently cajoled by an American renowned for catching golf balls in a baseball glove . |
| 18 | The village , now blessedly encircled by a by-pass , was once on the main A4 , and before that , on the principal London to Bath stage route . |
| 19 | Much of the " extravagant " expenditure of the lower orders so bemoaned by contemporaries went on imported " groceries " — tea , sugar and tobacco — but consuming these also involved consuming the products of growing home manufactures . |
| 20 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 22 | I am so particularly pleased with these , that I should feel much gratified by possessing a duplicate copy of each . |
| 23 | Human populations were perpetually on the move , constantly prodded by environmental changes … ’ |
| 24 | The overall mood is decidedly downbeat , but ( thank God ! ) without recourse to the anti-Soviet ‘ protest ’ mode , and constantly enlivened by stark ( though never exaggerated ) contrasts between lyrical and energetic musical material . |
| 25 | They perhaps entered by the route of Kamchatka and Alaska , where the climate , even now so much milder and more equitable than on the north-east coast of America , might have been warm enough in late Pliocene times to have allowed the migration of these animals . |
| 26 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 27 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 28 | It 's also ironic , I guess , that as our hired mini-bus travels through Harlem , the Belfast-bred trio should feel so intimidated by the possibility of violence . |
| 29 | Why did he always feel so intimidated by Viola Machin ? |
| 30 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |