Example sentences of "and [is] [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ primary rate ’ ISDN provides a block of a minimum of 30 lines , and is mostly used by large firms which connect it to a telephone switchboard . |
| 2 | She receives physiotherapy three or four times a week and is regularly visited by the district nurse . |
| 3 | It has been much updated and is regularly used by the WI , the youth club , indoor bowls club , and an over 55's club . |
| 4 | It may also be heavily dependent upon voluntary efforts much of which is only loosely co-ordinated and is marginally subsidized by the public departments . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 6 | It applies only to a few high risk processes and is invariably achieved by means of heat . |
| 7 | The thermodynamic data for poly ( A ) , poly ( C ) and poly ( dA ) indicate that the entropic cost per nucleotide in forming an ordered structure , formally involving six rotors ( see Figure 2 ) , has a mean value of -34 ( ±5 ) kJ mol -1 ( TΔS helix at 300 K , averaged over 9 data sets from references [ 8-13 ] ( Table 1 ) , where the error limits equal the range of reported values ) , and is closely balanced by a base stacking exothermicity of -37 ( ±4 ) kJ mol -1 . |
| 8 | It is sold as an enhancer of the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood , and is widely used by athletes in the USSR , says Dr Robert Woodward of Contassium . |
| 9 | The crosslinking reaction depends on addition of the methyl donor SAM ( Figure 5 , lane 4 ) and is partially suppressed by addition of sinefungin ( lane 6 ) , a competitive inhibitor of DNA methyltransferases ( 29 ) . |
| 10 | In the west of Leicester 's urban area , Newton ward , with population 20 440 , has a fitted value of only 13 495 and is badly fitted by all the models examined . |
| 11 | , the ESO from Madras , was also extremely helpful , and is clearly respected by the Indians as an intellectual force on the ELT scene . |
| 12 | Thus , amongst policemen and women working in ‘ hard ’ areas of high tension , policing in Easton is abused as family disputes and barking dogs , a caricature which many respondents hold and is even reproduced by constables at Easton : ‘ One minute you could be called out , someone 's budgie has escaped and is flying around the living-room . |
| 13 | The actual number of Greater London boroughs controlled by each party naturally varies from election to election and is strongly affected by the national political climate . |
| 14 | These include cortisol ( which rises later in the night as the body prepares for waking and is strongly influenced by the body clock ) ; antidiuretic hormone ( which is one of the ways in which fluid formation by the kidney is reduced at night , see Chapter 6 ) ; and the male sex hormone , testosterone , as well as some of the hormones that control the reproductive cycle in women . |
| 15 | It is a form of law superior to other laws — because ( i ) it originates in an authority higher than the legislature which makes ordinary law and ( ii ) the authority of the legislature derives from it and is thus bound by it . |
| 16 | Rob is still driving and is soon steering by the tree tops since the mist is so dense . |
| 17 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 18 | The diagnostic purpose is particularly important and is best exemplified by a discussion of miscue analysis . |
| 19 | It has a specific gravity of about I .4 , a refractive index of about 1.55 and is best detected by the van Wisselingh test — treatment with concentrated potassium hydroxide at 160- C for 20 minutes converts it to chitosan which gives a rose-violet colour with 0-z per cent iodine in 1 per cent sulphuric acid ( Campbell , 1929 ) . |
| 20 | This problem may be seen as the converse of the one discussed at the beginning of this section — defining a complete set of alternants for a variable — and is best demonstrated by example . |
| 21 | Excessive fading can occur if a rug is exposed to long periods of strong sunlight , and is best avoided by either relocating the rug or putting it in storage for the summer . |
| 22 | Signals are mainly detected by observing behaviour to see which activities predictably lead to changes in the behaviour of others , but this kind of evidence is philosophically unconvincing , and is best supplemented by experiment . |
| 23 | The Uni-Q driver is flush-fitted into this baffle and is normally covered by a lightweight plastics-framed grille . |
| 24 | The back of the rug is then coated with latex and is normally covered by a piece of cloth . |
| 25 | Coursework is directed towards the dissertation and is normally assessed by four essays on two or three of the following four areas : the beginnings of Christianity ; contemporary New Testament theology ; historical , philosophical and philological questions relating to the language and text of the New Testament ; the New Testament as literature . |
| 26 | In particular new potatoes should be bought in small amounts as they lose their freshness within a few days ; they should have a skin which feels damp to the touch and is easily removed by rubbing . |
| 27 | Milk and single cream contain too little fat to be whipped ; whipping cream contains just enough ( c. 30% ) but needs the vigorous beating of a power whisk ; double cream contains a lot of fat ( c. 40% ) and is easily whipped by hand . |
| 28 | The Hawaii Ironman is the original and ultimate triathlon , where the swim is through 2.4 miles of ocean , and is immediately followed by a 112-mile cycle ride up on the black lava fields , where by mid-morning the temperature will be over 100 degrees . |
| 29 | This refusal is much more of a " classic " polite refusal : it is not immediate ( being offset instead by laughter , which also marks it as " non-serious " ) and is immediately followed by an excuse ( " I 'm gon na take Natasha over the park " ) , which could also be seen as a bid to be treated as doing something equivalently onerous : looking after a child instead of washing up . |
| 30 | To accuse Banquo of ‘ unkindness ’ , unnatural ingratitude , in not attending , having just had him murdered , is one of the greatest perversions of truth and goodness in Shakespeare , and is immediately answered by the appearance of the ghost . |