Example sentences of "was by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Marx saw his work very much in this light and at one time proposed to dedicate Capital to Darwin , who refused , horrified as he already was by the religious and political repercussions of what he had written . |
| 2 | It was obvious that power was exerting its hold over him ; he was losing his grip on reality , possessed as he was by the illusion that perestroika was developing widely . ’ |
| 3 | What was left of the three dead ones was by the fence . |
| 4 | Karl Leyser has shown that this was a ‘ patrimonially ’ , not a ‘ bureaucratically ’ , governed society ; rule was by the personal presence of an itinerant ruler , the exercise of his patronage , the close bonds which he could establish with his followers , and the ceremonial projection of his sacrality . |
| 5 | It was the first pro bout between twins and the only way the 400 spectators could tell them apart was by the colour of their shorts . |
| 6 | The design was by the Tuscan architect Antonio Averulino , popularly known as Il Filarete , who produced two vast quadrilaterals separated by a huge central courtyard and closed in by square porticos on two floors . |
| 7 | The journey , arranged and paid for by Baron Grimm , was by the slowest means necessitating lengthy stops , where Mozart had to pay living expenses . |
| 8 | That purpose might be challenged , as it was by the neo-avant-garde of the early 1960s ( cf. |
| 9 | They used to be in the garden here , but Her Majesty doesnae care for them so they were thrown out on the rubbish heap , but the rubbish heap was by the river so the seeds were carried down by the water and sprouted by themselves on the bank . |
| 10 | Luch was by the fire , fishing a heating stone out from the soup bowl . |
| 11 | Ruth was by the window . |
| 12 | Fees were abolished for all pupils , entry to the school was by the competitive eleven-plus examination . |
| 13 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 14 | Of the £400 million spent in GEAR by 1985 , 60 per cent was by the public sector ( Morison , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | Half-hour point was by the David Lewis , and then three-quarter-hour point down Park Street . |
| 16 | Held back as he was by the fish and his clumsy waders , he finally reached his original crossing point . |
| 17 | The most notable takeover was by the rosebay willow-herb ( Epilobium angustifolium ) which flourishes throughout London as it does in other cities . |
| 18 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 19 | He was feared as much by the family ( owing to a vicious temper ) as he was by the young men of the district . |
| 20 | The pail was by the window and she could see the darkening yard and coach-house through an arched gateway . |
| 21 | Mr Loveitt ignored Jess who remained where she was by the wall . |
| 22 | Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head . |
| 23 | It is here that we shall find the explanation for the lively inconsistency of his thinking , masked though it was by the illusion of sweet reason he seemed able to create at will . |
| 24 | Tempy who was by the window , remarked , ‘ I see he 's surfaced , then . ’ |
| 25 | It was n't the issue that did the damage , however , but Kinnock 's apparent shiftiness , mocked as it was by the celebrated Patten-Heseltine Hinge and Bracket act . |
| 26 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |
| 27 | The accountant was by the GM 's side . |
| 28 | It was by the celebrated Matthew Buchinger , born in Germany without legs and only short stumps of arms without hands . |
| 29 | When the Devil was driven from the centre of the Divine Drama , as he was by the medieval scholastics , he resurfaced elsewhere among the superstitious beliefs of medieval Europe , where he remained despite the Reformation . |
| 30 | The first , planned for 9 December , was by the full 6 Commando and half of ‘ No.12 ’ . |