Example sentences of "[subord] by day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water itself shifts , and thus carries vast masses of heat with it ; the land also heats the air , and is often at a different temperature from the water ; the heating is greater at the equator than the poles , and greater at night than by day ; the air is diverted by mountains , and funnelled through passes ; and the air itself is heated by the Sun . |
| 2 | So my theory is that while we are in Earth 's shadow and intended to be dreaming , our minds may be wider open than by day . |
| 3 | The harbour beyond was a myriad sparkling lights from moored boats and yachts and across the bay the twinkling lights of Palma lit up palm trees and white tower blocks , making them look more stunningly magical by night than by day . |
| 4 | Of the subsequent actions around Ukhrul , Sangshak and Litan , Field Marshal Slim later wrote : ‘ They resisted desperate night attacks which were closely supported by Japanese artillery , while by day snipers and shelling took their toll . |
| 5 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 6 | As her own people had done before their captivity , the newcomers laid petitions at the sorceress 's door , clandestinely , while by day the same Englishmen , from a safe distance , mocked and mimicked the bent hag and laughed loudly to show they were not afraid of her . |
| 7 | He reached the Elephant and Castle , a busy junction by night as well as by day , but it was a silent yellow emptiness tonight . |
| 8 | The large sums of fixed capital sunk in the factory buildings and the machinery , and the fact that water-power , unlike human labour , needed no rest , demanded that the new buildings be used by night as well as by day . |