Example sentences of "and by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-recorded broadcasts were made by BBC Radio News for Radio 4 's ‘ World at One ’ and by Independent Radio News ( IRN ) for broadcast during the week of the 7th International Conference on AIDS in Florence . |
| 2 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 3 | This is n't necessarily so and by neglecting to make a valid , legal Will families put at risk the security and future of their nearest and dearest . |
| 4 | Our aim is to reduce the number of new HIV infections by giving young people the facts about AIDS and by encouraging them to think about their future . |
| 5 | ACET 's work with the churches in Africa and Romania has been recognised and supported by UNICEF , the World Health Organisation and by TEAR Fund . |
| 6 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 7 | The second half of the nineteenth century saw new standards achieved in art historical scholarship , both through the careful study of documents and by close scrutiny of works of art . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 11 | His mother died early , worn out by making ends meet and by her husband 's gambling . |
| 12 | Lilian , the older sister , errs by studying hard to become a money-minded businesswoman with a grudge and a smart flat , and by blackmailing her employer , also her lover , by means of an abortion . |
| 13 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 14 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 15 | Two , or three , of them are in , or moving into , the far from populous row of flats , just over the river in South London , which is inhabited by Patrick and Jenny , and by a stunning , boring wife who affords Patrick one of the novelist 's turmoils in a vulgarly-appointed borrowed flat some miles to the north . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I am thinking of the death of Primo Levi , an autobiographer , and by certain standards an amateur ; of the threatened death of the novelist Salman Rushdie ; and of the discovery of the fascist sympathies formerly exhibited by the literary theorist Paul de Man . |
| 18 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ay and by heaven , one that will do the deed |
| 21 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 22 | The prevailing protestant — loyalist beliefs stress the existence of the people of Northern Ireland , who are distinguished by their Ulster protestantism and democratic values , and by their claim to a flexible territory of Ulster . |
| 23 | By providing core beliefs , and by reinforcing their separateness for both alliances , religious beliefs and institutions equally suppress class divisions , become embroiled in cementing alliances , and help retain the overall divisional structure of Ireland as a whole . |
| 24 | This can be provided by the magic power or words , such as inscribing prohibitions into the nation 's constitution , and by manifestations of the divine in terms of either retribution for failing to uphold the truth , or grace for upholding the truth , with rewards ‘ such as oil finds and victories in the World Championships ’ . |
| 25 | O'Carroll sees such positions exemplified by the protagonists ' refusal to accept that certain therapeutic abortions already permitted in Ireland were actually abortions and by their predictions of social chaos should they fail in their fight : ‘ Hence phrases such as ‘ the opening of the floodgates ’ , ‘ the thin end of the wedge ’ , ‘ the slippery slope ’ , ‘ the permissive society ’ , and ‘ the abortion mentality ’ ’ ( 1983 : 12 ) . |
| 26 | In the other , the church is founded but taken over early on by the Popes in Rome and by priests who use magic and ritual to gain control of God 's people , thus profaning his divine word . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When the next government under de Valera introduced a very limited scheme of public health assistance in 1952 , the hierarchy still opposed its introduction , and by direct methods as well . |
| 29 | a belated attempt to meet minority principles in a plural democracy by avoiding any definition and by restoring ultimate power of decision to the Oireachtas [ Parliament ] . |
| 30 | And by this stage in this commentary , he wrote , there is no need to qualify the words success , triumph , and the rest , qualifications can be taken as read . |