Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are not sure whether you will be entitled to benefit , remember that you have nothing to lose by applying . |
| 2 | Vaillancourt , a Canadian now living in California , had nothing to lose by his all-out effort , but would still have been beaten by George Lindemann if Larry , one of his two World Cup horses , had not hit the last fence . |
| 3 | Wainwright had nothing to lose by his insubordination as it was his last game for Leeds : he had enlisted with the Royal Garrison Artillery and left for Dover two days later . |
| 4 | The Citizen 's Advice Bureau , a council welfare rights officer , or a neighbourhood advice centre should be able to advise about your individual circumstances ; but you have nothing to lose by filling in the form . |
| 5 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 6 | You have nothing to lose by taking action in the small claims court . |
| 7 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 8 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 9 | He had nothing to lose by ostentatious atonement for past sins ; and St Eadwold , whose relics Cerne claimed to possess , was the brother of Edmund of East Anglia . |
| 10 | With relegation fast becoming a foregone conclusion , Hankin has nothing to lose by giving teenagers an outing . |
| 11 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 12 | It was a strange conversation , sleepily hostile , with both of them drained by the extravagant expenditure of passion that had gone before . |
| 13 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 14 | So you 've nothing to go by ? ’ |
| 15 | And the council 's housing department is asking tenants thinking of ‘ moving-on ’ to help them make by giving early notice of when they intend to leave . |
| 16 | He told her that he was going to continue writing to her , nothing deterred by her cold reply or rather lack of a reply . |
| 17 | Five new in on 6th .. two of them piloted by Plt.Off . |
| 18 | I mean fancy expecting me to go by tube |
| 19 | The composition is saved from monotony by the subtle characterisation of these figures , and united by the concentration on them effected by the inward-facing chariot-teams and the looks of some of the seated figures and of the two reclining in the angles who frame the design . |
| 20 | But that 's our business , taking risks , and it works well enough — as long as everyone plays by the rules . ’ |
| 21 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 22 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 23 | By showing things-as-they-are , then showing them penetrated by the catalyst , the agent that embodies the will-to-change . |
| 24 | Make sure electric blankets are BEAB approved , and have them checked by the manufacturer every four to five years . |
| 25 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |
| 26 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 27 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 28 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 29 | The only small crumb of comfort is that , since May 1990 , tenants ( but not managers ) of national brewers ' pubs can buy guest cask ales free of the tie — but the nationals have been quick to dominate this new market niche by organising their own lists of ‘ guest beers ’ , many of them brewed by their own subsidiaries . |
| 30 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |