Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Male homosexuality is increasingly regarded as a variation of sexual behaviour rather than a perversion , and although the homosexual male is still treated badly by the law , in comparison to the heterosexual , he no longer feels the urgent need for anonymity and secrecy . |
| 2 | In 1986 the following causes were pressed successfully by the Lords : wider consultation rights for workers in relation to reorganization of the naval dockyards ; local authorities to decide whether tenants should have the right to buy old people 's properties ; abolition of caning in schools ; application of health and safety laws to all buildings used by the national health service . |
| 3 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 4 | He was treated pre-operatively by the physiotherapist who taught him deep breathing exercises . |
| 5 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 6 | Pausing mid-way he looked down and could notice that between the cracks of the wood and the holes of the ferrous nails , lay the stream , flowing as a solid conjecture , broken rarely by the spinning vortex of wheeling , eddy and ripple . |
| 7 | In his Beverly Hills suit and hand-painted 1950s tie , Kaufman looked like a divorce lawyer in ‘ LA Law ’ ; his presence at the Tory Party 's autumn festival could be explained only by the need to earn a crust ; he had been invited by the BBC , no doubt , to comment on the proceedings . |
| 8 | By the eighteenth century salutes were normally given merely by the firing of guns , not by the more humiliating lowering of the flag or striking of sails . |
| 9 | Yachts wishing to use the canal are limited only by a maximum mast height of 80ft ( 24.5m ) . |
| 10 | Normal free-sparring in the training hall is limited only by the number of people there , so you can pick up bad competition habits through using space uneconomically . |
| 11 | Most people use their own bodyweight as a stretching aid , with the number of different ways to stretch being limited only by the imagination . |
| 12 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 13 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 14 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 15 | Since the Crown Court is a superior court , its power to punish is limited only by the maximum penalty set for the offence by an Act of Parliament . |
| 16 | Note that , if the key that has been requested is not present on the file , the unsuccessful search length is potentially limited only by the size of the file . |
| 17 | The clinical usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction thus seems to be limited only by the power of our imagination in identifying specific targets . |
| 18 | The creative element in such notes is limited only by the imagination of you , the user . |
| 19 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 20 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 21 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 22 | An open question invites a ‘ free ’ answer , recorded in full with the detail limited only by the space on the form . |
| 23 | He says : ‘ Tinnitus ( Latin for ringing ) is the name given to the subjective ( heard only by the person concerned ) experience of hearing sounds in the ear or head which have no basis of reality in the environment , that is to say , the sound can not be accounted for by vibrations coming from objects external to the patient . ’ |
| 24 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 25 | After being tipped in The Observer as the next Labour leader ( Gadfly , Feb 19 ) he is now favoured apparently by the Prime Minister himself . |
| 26 | The clock room , furnished entirely by the antique-spotting owners , Philip and Lesley Davies , is open all day to nonresidents for tea , coffee and naughty-but-nice goodies , served with mints and carnations for the ladies . |
| 27 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 28 | The casual and amateurish character of much British diplomacy in particular , even in the eighteenth centry , is reflected in the fact that when an appointment , especially a relatively minor one , fell vacant without any suitable new holder of it being immediately available , it was sometimes filled merely by a casual volunteer . |
| 29 | Completed forms were checked manually by the supervisors , before independent data entry into computers by two clerks . |
| 30 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |