Example sentences of "[adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Achieve felicitous or striking effects , eg by the choice of unusual , apt and vivid vocabulary , showing some evidence of a personal style . |
| 2 | For this exercise , the procedure being examined is that carried out within a section , and the procedure owner is taken to be the person who could authorise changes at this level ( eg by the introduction of pro-formats for day-to-day recording of mileage etc ) , in this case the head of each section . |
| 3 | Extensions of the technique of withholding information about a plant state , eg by the use of ‘ windows ’ on VDU displays ; |
| 4 | Blanche stood by the door for a moment with her hand on the switch , the back of her head lit fiercely by the lights in the corridor , her face hidden in soft obscurity . |
| 5 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 6 | The old tollhouse further upstream by the site of the totally removed old bridge is a very desirable residence with ubiquitous modern coachlamps at the door and surrounded by bungalows built ‘ where groups of fine cattle were grazing on the rich grass ’ , that made JTR ‘ covet the power of the animal painter . ’ |
| 7 | Once the trough had flooded to a manageable width , the boys would swim for it , usually finishing up about one hundred yards upstream by the time they had struggled through the rough water and reached the home bank . |
| 8 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 9 | The existence of a meaning distinction is backed up furthermore by the opinions of a certain number of grammarians who all have more or less similar impressions as to the nature of the semantic contrast here . |
| 10 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
| 11 | PRESIDENT Bush 's National Security Adviser , Admiral Brent Scowcroft , was greeted warmly by the Chinese leader , Mr Deng Xiaoping , yesterday during an unannounced weekend visit to Beijing which tacitly buried the US ban on high-level governmental contacts with China . |
| 12 | I am greeted warmly by the headmaster . |
| 13 | Prince Charles left at 3.03pm , shaking chef Mosimann warmly by the hand as he climbed into his car . |
| 14 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 15 | During recent weeks he has been praised warmly by the mainland press in Hong Kong . |
| 16 | " Perhaps they 're not Englishmen , " she said ; then , shaking us warmly by the hand : " Please , do n't be offended if you 're not . " |
| 17 | ‘ Be damned if you have n't grown a few more inches , m'boy , ’ Sir Philip said , shaking Harry warmly by the hand . |
| 18 | We all arrived anticipating the worst but were greeted warmly by the manager of the Hotel du Golf in Arc 1800 , with a Kir Royale in the American Bar . |
| 19 | ‘ I am surprised , too , ’ Holmes said , as he shook me warmly by the hand . |
| 20 | He greeted us effusively , clasping Benjamin warmly by the hand . |
| 21 | Hoped to have something better by the evening . |
| 22 | How much of what teachers currently feel they have to do could be accomplished as well or better by the use of a library of varied instructional materials supervised by well-trained staff with both bibliographical and subject-teaching competence ? |
| 23 | This last task , in fact , had earlier been found to be performed better by the left hand of neurologically intact right and left handers ( Kimura and Vanderwolf 1970 ) . |
| 24 | T'owd dear was n't up to doing much better by the chocolates , having problems wi' sugar in her water , so I did well out o' that . |
| 25 | On other occasions , teachers commented that tasks without an obvious method of solution which were set to the intake year and also to other years were tackled better by the intake year in spite of the fact that they were younger . |
| 26 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 27 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 28 | For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance . |
| 29 | The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector . |
| 30 | In contrast the title story is narrated entirely by the heroine , and from mid-air too . |