Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an important stage at which the person-centred world is superseded or rather supplemented by the world of which the person is one part . |
| 2 | If Gunnell herself has cashed in , she 's not been so blatant or obviously motivated by the financial side as other athletes . |
| 3 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 4 | Am I alone in questioning the wisdom of giving a gift which the donor can not afford and which must be paid at the ludicrous interest of 25 per cent or so charged by the credit card companies ? |
| 5 | The ecology wall charts were to be the most recent in a series of a dozen or so published by the Natural History Museum with sponsorship from BP and featured in their educational catalogue . |
| 6 | Its de facto leader — or so identified by the right-wing Springer press empire — was Rudi Dutskche . |
| 7 | Selection of this sort raises all kinds of problems of the sample being consciously or unconsciously affected by the selector 's personal biases . |
| 8 | Provided there is no physically damaging effect , it would seem that what is seen , said , done , heard or physically felt by the mother has no effect whatever , but that emotional factors during pregnancy can have good or bad effect . |
| 9 | Organised youth activities will keep the kiddies happy while you partake of exercise classes , deck games or just laze by the poolside . |
| 10 | So tight that children were securely fastened to their parents , some with leather baby reins that had become too small , others were in prams , trolleys or just held by the firm grip of an adult hand . |
| 11 | Conflicts over collective consumption facilities and services provided or directly funded by the state have become more explicit and important ( Castells , 1979 ) . |
| 12 | Will the Secretary of State confirm that fully two thirds of the costs of Trident have already been spent or contractually committed by the present Government ? |
| 13 | This will be partially or totally compensated by the underwriting fees F , and the return may be expressed as a percentage of the subscription price as follows , . |
| 14 | The radial shields are visible in some specimens but in others they are partially or totally obscured by the spinelets . |
| 15 | Worse , Intel is likely to cut the price of its Pentium chip during the next two years — perhaps by one-third or more going by the firm 's past behaviour . |
| 16 | Whether generated by the user , guide ed by the system or automatically performed by the system , the principle of extending matching terms does not appear to be an entirely satisfactory approach . |
| 17 | This type of manslaughter occurs when death is caused by an unlawful act intentionally or recklessly committed by the accused which reasonable persons would foresee as liable to cause some injury , though not necessarily serious injury : Church , as approved in DPP v Newbury [ 1977 ] AC 500 ( HL ) and Goodfellow . |
| 18 | The contract for construction of a residential development wholly or partly funded by the Housing Corporation may be awarded to a builder only if he submits the most favourable tender in competition . |
| 19 | Dependants are defined in the 1975 Act as a wife or husband ; a former spouse who has not remarried ; a child of the deceased ( including an illegitimate or adopted child ) ; a person who was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to any marriage of the deceased ( e.g. a child of the deceased 's wife by a former marriage ) ; and any other person who was being wholly or partly maintained by the deceased immediately before his death . |
| 20 | The government also announced that it would be selling shares in enterprises owned or partly owned by the state and would be asking others to sign performance contracts . |
| 21 | On the other hand , misinforming a patient , whether or not innocently , and the withholding of information which is expressly or impliedly sought by the patient may well vitiate either a consent or a refusal . |
| 22 | Held , allowing the appeal ( Lord Lowry dissenting ) , that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner of goods or consented to by him could amount to an appropriation of the goods within section 1(1) of the Theft Act 1968 where such authority or consent had been obtained by deception ; and that , accordingly , the defendant had been rightly convicted of theft ( post , pp. 1073F , 1076G–H , 1080C–F , 1081C–D , 1109F , 1111E ) . |
| 23 | In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 24 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 25 | While it is correct to say that appropriation for purposes of section 3(1) includes the latter sort of act , it does not necessarily follow that no other act can amount to an appropriation and in particular that no act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner can in any circumstances do so . |
| 26 | ‘ involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 27 | The actual decision in Morris was correct , but it was erroneous , in addition to being unnecessary for the decision , to indicate that an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner could never amount to an appropriation . |
| 28 | ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation in my view involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of those rights . |
| 29 | ‘ In Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 the House of Lords held that ‘ In the context of section 3(1) , the concept of appropriation … involves not an act expressly or impliedly authorised by the owner but an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of [ the owner 's ] rights . ’ |
| 30 | If granted , taxation is carried out on the ‘ indemnity basis ’ but it is presumed that the costs ( a ) have been reasonably incurred , if they were incurred with the express or implied approval of the client ; ( b ) have been reasonable in amount , if their amount was expressly or impliedly approved by the client ; ( c ) have been unreasonably incurred , if in the circumstances of the case they are of an unusual nature , unless the solicitor satisfies the taxing officer that prior to their being incurred the client was informed that they might not be allowed on taxation of costs . |