Example sentences of "and by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 2 | Some readers were upset by the hostility shown towards the murdered woman , and by the sympathy shown towards Jimmy — the sympathy of an author noted for his sceptical attitude towards revolutionaries , who had been hostile , in print , to all of the participants in the historical events which supplied part of his plot . |
| 3 | The plot states that an attachment to a strange woman , a woman who does not belong to this community of strangers , is succeeded by a return to the community , and by the dispersal , and survival , of the community . |
| 4 | Maybe there will one day be a novel from Amis which portrays the Patrick Standish of the Eighties — more baleful , no doubt , on certain subjects , nicer to his cat , surrounded by the monuments of the New Right and by the debris of the swinging past to which he had once been a contributor . |
| 5 | Intelligence , vigilance , practicality , cunning , luck , friendship — Levi was crucially helped by donations from an Italian workman he barely knew , and by the exercise of his skills as a chemist — kept you going and , in some few cases , made you free . |
| 6 | The power of the element of statehood among the dominant beliefs appears to have been sufficient to neutralize the provisional movement in the South , even though it was severely tested by the event of Bloody Sunday in 1972 , when thirteen demonstrators were killed by British soldiers in Derry , and by the provisional hunger strikes of 1981 . |
| 7 | The growing demand for pasta in the UK is illustrated both by the increasing number of specialised pasta outlets and by the growing menu presence of pasta in pizza restaurants , according to Master Foods , which markets the Dolmio brand of frozen pastas and sauces . |
| 8 | And by the time I got there I was very cold and hungry . |
| 9 | And by the way , if you think that all homeless people have it as easy as I had it , then you are living in dream world . |
| 10 | Like most new machines , everything was a tight fit and by the time we had the glider rigged , we had worn out several people with the sheer weight of the wings . |
| 11 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |
| 12 | In children between four and eight years of age there was absolutely no difference between the number of realist answers produced by the pairs and by the control , solo children . |
| 13 | Both designs first appeared in 1958 and by the 1980s were showing signs of their age . |
| 14 | This scheme was justified by the withdrawal of asbestos-bearing diesel multiple units and by the more efficient use of the existing EMU fleet ; the withdrawal of asbestos-bearing stock was also one of the grounds for the Bournemouth-Weymouth electrification scheme submitted during the year . |
| 15 | The Sprinter DMUs , conventionally engineered units built by BREL , Leyland and Metro-Cammell , Classes 150 , 151 , 154 , 155 , 156 and 158 , were considerably more successful and by the end of the decade in charge of the mainstay of Provincial services literally from Wick to Penzance . |
| 16 | It is to steal his own clothes , and by the time he comes to Sonya to confess , the Napoleonic idea is already crumbling into wanting to dare or something even vaguer . |
| 17 | I think in all this textual fussing Dostoevsky was also — and increasingly — troubled by the chapter 's footnote status and by the problem which I picture as obstruction by Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov in his backward groping towards the underground man . |
| 18 | Referred to as Spox , the OS can be hosted by Texas Instruments third generation products and by the Motorola DSP96002 processor . |
| 19 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 20 | The enthusiasm has , of course , been exploited , in the opportunistic launching of courses in women 's studies , and by the publishing industry which has filled the shelves of bookshops — general as well as academic — with books with ‘ women ’ in their titles . |
| 21 | Excusably perhaps , neither Edmund Wilson nor any one else could understand , or could credit , the scale on which Pound was working : 120 cantos , and by the time Pound died in 1972 , the poem had fallen only just short of that . |
| 22 | But now scientists believe the root cause of Germany 's problems could simply be drier weather , albeit aggravated by acid deposition and by the growing tendency for forests , like farmland , to be planted as monocultures . |
| 23 | It decided it could squeeze in a fifth , but there is no room for a sixth channel and by the time you add up the extra transmission channels needed for relaying the signal onwards , there will not be enough spectrum to allow the fifth channel to cover the whole country . |
| 24 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |
| 25 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 26 | After a bright opening , inspired by Wall Street , prices retreated and by the close the broadly based FT-SE share index was down 6.5 points at 2,312.1 . |
| 27 | There are now 18.5 million cars on Britain 's roads , and by the year 2000 there will be 25 to 28 million . |
| 28 | The Florios worked the room with ease and self-confidence and by the time they had reached the podium an aide to the candidate was saying that almost a million dollars had already been raised for the Democratic campaign . |
| 29 | Mr Schuller argues that costs would be offset by the increased economic activity of older people and by the reduction in social dependency . |
| 30 | However , no doubt mollified both by the President 's dramatic decision on Tuesday to announce the release of eight long-term political prisoners and by the urbanity of his style , the archbishop did note that the talks had proceeded in ‘ a far better atmosphere ’ than previous encounters he has had with the government . |