Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you thought that era had been long since killed off by the replacement of British wrestling on our screens by the outrageous comic-book exploits of the Americans , you would be horribly wrong . |
| 2 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 3 | The expression of conditions of existence , so often insisted on by the illustrious Cuvier , is fully embraced by the principle of natural selection . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend further agree that the founders of the health service would be horrified at the resistance to the reforms so ably carried out by the Government for the benefit of patients throughout the country ? |
| 5 | Or was it just the effect of the refreshment so kindly brought round by the Norfolk team ! |
| 6 | The French commission of inquiry found that the modification to the cargo door locking and vent mechanisms had been only partially carried out by the aircraft manufacturers before delivery to Turkish Airlines in December 1972 , six months after the Windsor accident . |
| 7 | One possible explanation for this discrepancy might be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa , and there is indirect evidence to suggest that this so . |
| 8 | Another possible reason for this discrepancy may be that Ac-ASA is less well taken up by the colonic mucosa than 5-ASA , resulting in subtherapeutic mucosal concentrations . |
| 9 | The concept of political freedom , which is now so frequently bandied around by the coiners of political slogans , was , so far as we know , first developed in Athens in the fourth century BC where at least two-thirds of the population had the status of chattel slaves . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that the public purse had been so shamefully ripped off by the sales and the asset stripping , it was left to the ratepayers , through the local authority , to pick up the tab . |
| 11 | Many people are just plain scared off by the amount of organising a walking trip abroad suggests , not to mention the travel , the awesome scale of the mountains by British standards , and even the language barrier . |
| 12 | I was also rather put off by the fact I had inadvertently climbed to the summit of Cairn Gorm from the restaurant at the top of the chairlift one drizzly afternoon years ago . |
| 13 | It is , I believe , a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world , and this quality is probably best summed up by the term ‘ greatness ’ . |
| 14 | The socalled ‘ heritage ’ industry brought large numbers of foreign and other tourists to old centres of attraction like country houses ( now increasingly taken over by the National Trust ) , towns like Stratford , York , or Bath , and also to monuments of industrial or other archaeology . |
| 15 | Somewhat in the same boat may be groups of younger teachers who see education in personal/emotional , or in political terms , and who are feeling their values particularly heavily trodden on by the current educational reforms . |
| 16 | The poll tax is quite rightly played down by the Tories , but what has this debacle cost the nation ? |
| 17 | Another employer , in the 1890s , rationalized women 's lower pay as follows : " the difference between the rate paid to women and that paid to men is almost entirely swallowed up by the additional work which the men require to do for the women , viz. making up , correcting , carrying about formes between the stones and the proof presses , etc . " , |
| 18 | Hunt 's appearance represents a career reprieve — he was dropped when Keegan arrived , and then practically written off by the manager . |
| 19 | Punchy thermals which delight the wings of gliders and do not trouble planes with a bit of weighty metal behind them are no longer conjured up by the morning sun to drive trepid microlight flyers back to earth . |
| 20 | Afterwards , she felt very much let down by the family 's decision , saying she would have preferred to die rather than live in such a disabled condition . |
| 21 | This spread of interest is very much borne out by the selection of numbers given to each of the tenors where Tauber has more semi-serious and operatic numbers to sing than his tow seniors . |