Example sentences of "by [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , the other things that had erm we 've endeavoured to incorporate is to try and not divide the estate , one of the one of the aims of the master plan has been to seen to integrate bungalows and any new housing together and in a number of respects the demolition of the terraced blocks and the er er , putting back of more conventional two storey housing has allowed us to do this by rather than having a access road running the whole length of the estate and similarly the that are running past the length of the estate away from the houses we 've we 've put the houses where the road is and the road where the house , where the terraced blocks were , erm to form more of a conventional street scape so that people can look out on their cars and that we , you actually got the new houses facing the existing ones . |
| 2 | Their hope has been realized , by rather than for miscreants ; their rhetoric reminds us that Victorian values did not produce an orderly society . |
| 3 | If we accept that Hitler was regarded by most if not all as the embodiment of the Party , it would seem that , for most new recruits to the Nazi Movement during the rise to power , his own undoubted extreme anti-Semitism formed a secondary rather than primary component of his image and appeal . |
| 4 | The speciality is much smaller and the leaders in the field are probably acknowledged by most if not all practising in the field . ) |
| 5 | It is possible that due to replacement of ageing springs and ropes the organs originally went somewhat slower , but they could not have gone slower by much because the bellows are linked with the barrels ' rotation too slow a pace means that insufficient air circulates for the pipes to speak . |
| 6 | This involves brokers generating income by constantly and needlessly buying and selling investments for their clients in order to collect the heavy commissions which accrue . |
| 7 | Despite the reams of analysis of new environmental taxes , Mr Major did next to nothing , except raise petrol duties by 10% and widen the tax difference between leaded and unleaded petrol by less than 2p , to 16p a gallon . |
| 8 | This year the American PC market is forecast to grow by less than 10% , a far cry from the 20% annual growth that computer makers are used to . |
| 9 | Oil demand will grow by less than 10% and make up about one-third of consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 10 | But surely the fact that Rowell has been the brains behind the most successful side in modern British rugby , as well as the man who managed to mesh the England Students into a force so strong that they were able to play World Cup quarter-finalists Canada on their home turf this summer and lose by less than 20 points , puts him on a par with Best . |
| 11 | The bulletin suggests that grommets and adenoidectomy , either alone or in combination , reduce mean hearing impairment by less than 12 dB at six months , and that this improvement falls with time . |
| 12 | Prices are reckoned to have risen by less than 20% during April . |
| 13 | That means the economy will grow by less than 3% this year . |
| 14 | The amplitude histograms ( b ) show that the peak separation increased by less than 10% , indicating only a minor increase in quantal size . |
| 15 | Chairman John Haynes said the group 's performance had been achieved with little help from either the UK or the US economies ( although the latter was showing a significant increase in retail spending in the fourth quarter ) : turnover was up by less than 2% to £11.1m . |
| 16 | The two conformations differ only by a slight repuckering of a single sugar ( 30° change in phase ) and were separated by less than 2 Kcal/mol in internal energy . |
| 17 | For children under 5 in Lothian the number of casualties in 1991 was nearly one third greater than the 1981–85 baseline total , whereas for Scotland as a whole casualties in this age group rose by less than 5% . |
| 18 | But in the nature of averages the price on some other island(s) must have risen by less than 5 per cent . |
| 19 | while the retail prices index has risen by less than 4 per cent ? |
| 20 | The net effect of these various modifications is to oppose the alkalinising effect of apical HCl secretion , with the result that patietal cell pH i increases by less than 0.10 pH units after stimulation of HCl secretion . |
| 21 | There the area under crops grew by less than 5 per cent . |
| 22 | It is anticipated that by the end of the decade the price rises will have reduced earlier demand forecasts by less than 2 per cent . |
| 23 | In contrast , the proportion of homeowners in the South East has risen by less than 20pc from 59pc to 70pc . |
| 24 | Production of investment goods trebled , while consumption ( public and private ) rose by less than 50 per cent . |
| 25 | There have also been occasional errors of judgment , regretted by all but recognised to have been caused by the harsh financial climate on the one hand and the immense flood of new books demanding funds and shelving on the other . |
| 26 | This is particularly so in the last dance , when the Bride and Groom are watched by all as they solemnly walk together through the doorway into their room . |
| 27 | The normal forms of glaciated mountains are accepted by all as due to ice erosion and no one would seriously suggest that such features as corries , glacial troughs and overdeepened basins are still being formed . |
| 28 | A great time was had by all as you can read in ‘ David 's Diary ’ . |
| 29 | The centre is operated by EG & G , a major defence contractor . |
| 30 | What would you like to multiply twelve and a half by so that the half disappears ? |