Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our own experiences with walking were very quickly confirmed when we read in Time magazine , November 1989 , that after the most detailed fitness study ever carried out by the Aerobics Institute in America , it had been established that moderate exercise can have all the beneficial effects that are normally associated with hard ‘ no pain , no gain' exercising ( see Table 2 ) . |
| 2 | The gentle fanfare-like first movement melody tenderly laid out by the flautist , John Grant , Yuasa had the strings repeat with an ungainly skip , which left him little to develop . |
| 3 | Consequently , the rule now laid down by the House of Lords is that where in construing a consolidation Act |
| 4 | They found Faltour 's Lane and turned into the dirty refuse-filled alleyway , the daylight almost blocked out by the overhanging gables of the houses which reared up on either side . |
| 5 | Its initial tasks , however , were to ensure that the pioneering work already carried out by the NAS&FU in organising continental branches was consolidated into indigenous unions and to develop European solidarity to a point at which common strike action would be feasible . |
| 6 | This is being used to investigate the incidence of taxation and benefits at the level of individual households , building on the work already carried out by the Central Statistical Office . |
| 7 | KEROSENE , fierce guitar quintet recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , take time out from recording their debut EP with Neds/MC4 producer Jessica Corcoran to play Colchester Hippodrome on September 14 . |
| 8 | Against that must be weighed the costs of absorbing new members into a Community already weighed down by the process of bargaining over policy among 12 member states . |
| 9 | The distinction of the Son from the Father was a theme vehemently taken up by the Roman presbyter Hippolytus . |
| 10 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 11 | It could be one of the first of the man-made units of goodness to be added to the existing store already laid up by the evolutionary process . |
| 12 | KEROSENE , West Didsbury outfit recently snapped up by the Dead Dead Good label , play |
| 13 | Under the 1987 Philippines Constitution , once the existing bases agreement expired , " foreign military bases , troops or facilities shall not be allowed in the Philippines except under a treaty duly concurred in by the Senate [ upper house of parliament ] … and recognized as a treaty by the other contracting state " . |
| 14 | At the edge of the marsh stood an old DANGER notice , leaning at an angle and with its warning almost rubbed out by the weather . |
| 15 | Lennis had stressed the emptiness of his life in having a daughter who had little to do with him , an account apparently borne out by the daughter herself in her interview with the banker . |
| 16 | The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit . |
| 17 | It is ironic that the most interesting group of pre-Romanesque churches in Europe should be in a country largely taken over by the Moslems . |
| 18 | ‘ Of witnesses we have no need , and as for the evidence , why … four barrels of brandy obligingly carried in by the accused themselves . |
| 19 | The two youngsters found the going much easier this time , with the way ahead lit up by the bobbing light of their new-found ally 's powerful flashlight . |
| 20 | Despite the wear and tear of many a performance it 's still a cracking guitar , with its classically timeless shape beautifully set off by the tobacco-yellowed binding . |
| 21 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |