Example sentences of "[be] by [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because in our field we 're we 're by far the biggest and the best in in terms of support and finance . |
| 2 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 3 | They were now the self-confident , responsible young ladies they had been trained to be by both the school and their own families . |
| 4 | The lowest level — usually , but not always , called ‘ masters ’ degrees — may be by either teaching or research , and may require one or two years of full-time study ( or the equivalent in part-time study ) . |
| 5 | The wardens would be by soon , so they 'd have to move on . |
| 6 | Yes , but there wo n't be by tomorrow morning |
| 7 | Research has shown the method to be by far the most effective disciplinary technique to use in situations of defiance and ( as often occurs ) the ensuing aggression . |
| 8 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
| 9 | There is no special dispensation for accountants , but if the firm could obtain its own individual dispensation , this would be by far the best solution . |
| 10 | A nearly zero value , however , will be by far the most probable . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 12 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 13 | While employee numbers will be reduced , United Distillers will remain a major employer in the Scotch whisk I industry with around 4,500 employees in Scotland , and will continue to be by far the industry 's largest producer . |
| 14 | It is easy to assume that such skills will be picked up incidentally , as they will usually be by fully sighted children , who often copy what they see other children doing , especially if a teacher 's directions are unclear to them . |
| 15 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 16 | If he 's in police custody as he may well be by now they 'll never let her see him , ’ Hugo said . |
| 17 | No mention was made of my helping with the editing , and when I enquired , I was told the programme was nowhere near that stage yet ; in fact , the producer had not yet had time to listen to the — what must be by now — at least four hours of tape . |
| 18 | While those who had gone back to Braithwaite 's mill had been picked out of the crowd by wild little Oliver Rattrie , the eldest Rattrie boy — nineteen or twenty she supposed he 'd be by now — the twisted , crook-shouldered lad who had done more talking of pikes and pistols and bloody revolution than anybody else at the meetings in her back-yard . |
| 19 | He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party . |
| 20 | The inventory of the shop shows that Martin made recorders ( flutes ) , bassoons , musettes and transverse flutes , the flute-type instruments being by far the most numerous . |
| 21 | There was not far to walk , the formal procession to the gallows being by then a thing of the past . |
| 22 | Tiny though they were by today 's standards , they had a local importance out of all proportion to their size . |
| 23 | Her legs were by far the worst , though — just supporting her own body weight could break them . |
| 24 | The years 1544 and 1545 were to see a number of English invasions , of which those of May 1544 and the autumn of 1545 — timed for the destruction of the harvest — were by far the worst . |
| 25 | The Conference leaders were by far the more accomplished side in front of a crowd of 5,443 — their best of the season . |
| 26 | Sheep were by far the most common livestock . |
| 27 | Touching and fondling were by far the most common complaints . |
| 28 | The haplochromines were also extremely numerous ; indeed , they were by far the principal biomass of Lake Victoria . |
| 29 | Both sides made use of bows , though the Moslems were by far the more proficient in their use . |
| 30 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |