Example sentences of "[adv] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 2 | BETTER BY HALF |
| 3 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 4 | In other words we have to be able to demonstrate that we can do better by some sort of synergy in the group ; if we ca n't do that then the group is better broken up and the individual parts allowed to fly free and attract their own shareholding . |
| 5 | I should know better by this time , because not only do these things then happen , but my machines do something even worse . |
| 6 | Leonora 's heart sank , but she knew better by this time than to argue with Penry Vaughan . |
| 7 | ‘ I agree , yet somehow I find it difficult to accept that you live entirely by that principle . ’ |
| 8 | At the moment , we have no way of knowing and , although the report is now public property , its contents during preparation and its final contents are determined entirely by those paying the bill — and they are the promoters who have every interest in avoiding drawing attention to anything that could be used against them when the Bill is debated publicly or scrutinised in the House on Second Reading , Report or in the Special Select Committee or the Standing Committee . |
| 9 | Obscene letters and telephoning , in which an inadequate individual gains satisfaction mainly or entirely by these activities . |
| 10 | On a Tuesday morning in January a telephone call came from a farmer in the Briercrest area to report the murder of a young farm hand , apparently by another farm worker , a mid-European emigrant named Peter Eli Janotte . |
| 11 | It is an impressive body of photographic , graphic and specially commissioned work which has been put together by former NME photographer Adrian Boot and editors Neil Storey and Rob Partridge , with encouragement from Island boss Chris Blackwell and the head of Are You Experienced Ltd , Alan Douglas . |
| 12 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 13 | We who are brought together by such an obscene act , like to think of ourselves as the vast majority . |
| 14 | Embryos are put together by all the working genes in the developing organism , in collaboration with one another . |
| 15 | As for the party 's electoral system , it is a compromise clumsily put together by that decent man , Terry Duffy , to minimise union power at its most triumphalist and overbearing . |
| 16 | Holding the larva in its jaws , an adult points the larva 's silk glands at the leaves and , as the silk is extruded , the leaves , which are held together by many other ants , are glued . |
| 17 | All the various members were held together by these 1 . |
| 18 | The extremities of the cloud are rotating so fast that the cloud would disperse if it were not held together by some force of gravity . |
| 19 | No. 28 , Bill and Onyx 's house , was a really shoddy little semi , thrown together by some builder after a quick buck ten or twelve years before . |
| 20 | By the ninth century the Magyars had settled around the river Dnepr , north of the Crimean Peninsula , having been expelled outwards by that movement of Asian tribes which rolled peoples westwards for a thousand years . |
| 21 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 22 | The front quad of New College , Oxford illustrates clearly the usual quadrangle method of Medieval layout which was retained for so long by those universities . |
| 23 | To reinforce a belief in their own omnipotence and popularity , the police have made increasing use of market research to show they are well liked ; especially by that important category ‘ the silent majority ’ . |
| 24 | It should be seen for what it was , and especially by those who feel like regretting its erasure , and alleging that its replacement has made an environment which may be even worse — of tower blocks filled with heroin and despair . |
| 25 | They deserve close examination especially by those in predominantly family and part-time farming areas . |
| 26 | Such a programme for generalizing the curriculum will be attacked , especially by those who distinguish ‘ difficult ’ from ‘ soft ’ subjects , and who hold that the difficult is the specialized or narrow . |
| 27 | Clairvoyants and mediums are often rechristened mind-readers , especially by those who do not believe in a spirit-world . |
| 28 | Economic priorities are given the status of a nationally agreed consensus , especially by those who stress the unique willingness of the Japanese to forego individual interests for the benefit of the group . |
| 29 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 30 | The second problem on the minds of Germans is the perceived invasion of their country by foreigners , especially by those who have arrived as a result of the liberal asylum laws . |