Example sentences of "[pron] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman . |
| 2 | They let the people in you know ooh my by time we set off I er it were like Christmas . |
| 3 | What he is trying to describe , and to find terms to name , is what would later be called ‘ existential awareness ’ , an awareness which includes and involves ourselves by contrast with any more or less detached knowledge of facts and truths quite external to ourselves . |
| 4 | It clearly implies a world order in which the prime virtue is obedience , not a world order that 's exactly to our twentieth century democratic taste , but then after all not a world order altogether to Milton 's taste , as we can remind ourselves by thinking of his plea for unlicensed printing the Areopagitica . |
| 5 | We may surprise ourselves by feeling , say , anger and guilt towards the person we have lost . |
| 6 | He 's taken yours by mistake . |
| 7 | And once we are married the money will be yours by right . |
| 8 | All of this is yours by right , and I wo n't let you throw it all away . |
| 9 | Your prescription is yours by right and is valid for two years . |
| 10 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |
| 11 | Section 743(4) provides that where an individual has been charged to income tax on any income deemed to be his by virtue of s739 and that income is subsequently received by him , it shall be deemed not to form part of his income again for the purposes of the income tax acts . |
| 12 | Income tax chargeable under s739 shall be charged under Case VI of Schedule D. Thus , whether or not the income arises from an overseas trade is not relevant ; the charge is still under Case VI of Schedule D. Section 743(2) , however , provides that in computing the liability to income tax of an individual chargeable under s739 the same deductions and reliefs shall be allowed as would have been allowed if the income deemed to be his by virtue of s739 had actually been received by him . |
| 13 | Section 743(4) provides , specifically , for relief from double taxation : Where an individual has been charged to income tax on any income deemed to be his by virtue of section 739 and that income is subsequently received by him , it shall be deemed not to form part of his income again for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 14 | The election won , Baldwin prepared to move , both into 11 Downing Street , which was his by right , and into Chequers , which Bonar Law did not want . |
| 15 | Well , they 'd called it embezzlement but it was only taking what was his by right . |
| 16 | Incidentally Ciccolini also plays several works for piano 4 hands , partnering himself by re-recording ! |
| 17 | How easy is it to show concern for school work when a beloved father takes you to school in the morning and kills himself by midday ? |
| 18 | A huge lump of misery welled up into his throat and he stiffened his jaw so that he would n't disgrace himself by crying . |
| 19 | The wretched man made his way to Brighton where after one bungled attempt he walked off the pier and killed himself by drowning . |
| 20 | On the death of his father in 1894 , Bernard went to Manchester and found work as a ‘ property boy and paint-room drudge ’ , educating himself by reading , inter alia , John Locke and John Ruskin [ qq.v. ] , and practising drawing . |
| 21 | how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 22 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 23 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 24 | Accordingly , the Buyer agrees to take the goods in their current state , after having satisfied himself by inspection , as to their quality and fitness for the purpose for which the Buyer requires them . |
| 25 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 26 | It 's as if he has been drawn outside himself by indignation ; transcended himself ; literally risen into the air above his own head , so that he can see beyond the confines of his own life . |
| 27 | Philip got his revenge when his army beat an Athenian-led alliance at the battle of Chaironea in 338BC , thereby putting Greece under his control and , a little later , causing Demosthenes to kill himself by poison . |
| 28 | Roth supported himself by freelance writing until in 1939 he received a specially created readership in post-biblical Jewish studies at the University of Oxford , where he was also mentor and host to Jewish students . |
| 29 | ‘ I ’ , ‘ me ’ or ‘ mine ’ are words that are frequently heard in the classroom , as a child proudly announces that he has ‘ built a big tower ’ or ‘ got one like that ’ , or as he asserts himself by virtue of possession , ‘ That 's mine ’ . |
| 30 | The normal interpretation of ( 165 ) does not imply that everyone actually pays his taxes : the sentence simply evokes a state of obligation in which every individual finds himself by virtue of the law . |