Example sentences of "by [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty was that the evangelicals took a low view of the deans and chaplains of colleges , and did not expect that anything run by them would have force and challenge . |
| 2 | They derive their strength from the realization that not to abide by them would make for an unworkable constitution . |
| 3 | Based on the principle of customer loyalty , their Price Promise guarantees to refund the difference if an item stocked by them can be purchased locally at a lower price . |
| 4 | The last point can be essential to persuade major companies that they will not be used as ‘ stalking horses ’ and that the major effort and expense put in by them will not be wasted . |
| 5 | Foreign lawyers will still be able to practise as such on their own within the UK without registering but solicitors employed by them will not be able to hold themselves out as such to clients of the business . |
| 6 | Moreover , only a conditional right of savages to the land occupied by them could be recognized . |
| 7 | The statement went on to give full support to APEX 's decision to limit the number of pickets ; the TUC wished to stress to all trade unionists that any action by them should be at the union 's official request . |
| 8 | If so , an ethical statement made by me would be true , and could not reasonably be challenged by others , if I have the feelings in question . |
| 9 | What policy advice will the Home Secretary need on prison matters , for example the use of police cells and contracting with the private sector , which are distinct from the operations of the Prison Service , and by whom should it be given ? |
| 10 | A tiny bit inhaled by someone would be lethal . |
| 11 | I think that , those need to be clarified by I would say , I 'm saying well it 's Tuesday today , definitely by the end of this week . |
| 12 | So when we saw one go flapping by I used to shout thkarni and the Indians would all laugh . |
| 13 | Any story which carries the imputation of discreditable conduct by somebody will be actionable by a plaintiff who can show that at least some readers would recognise him as the person being criticised , or that the facts in the story necessarily imply such an allegation against him . |
| 14 | Crowds possess great wit ; the group throws up nicknames of an aptness and ingenuity the clever individual by himself could never invent . |
| 15 | Other routes by which Ca 2+ could enter the cell to contribute to the induction of LTP include voltage-dependent Ca 2+ channels and Ca 2+ -permeable AMPA channels ( that is , those lacking the GluR-2 subunit ) . |
| 16 | By YOU MAY feel that Julie Burchill 's advocacy of the drug culture ( December 16 issue ) , replete with ‘ Thatcherite values ’ , amusing . |
| 17 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 18 | The on the exception was the art mistress , she was a er Miss , but er Morgan , , , , , all good and by you could n't you know they were disciplinarians , strong disciplinarians , there was another chap . |
| 19 | And as time goes by you will probably have to document in detail why the project is behind schedule . |
| 20 | ‘ And you 're sure that this Bermuda company controlled by you will lend me the half-million pounds in cash to buy these shares , at no interest ? ’ |
| 21 | Although any eligible accounts held by you can be associated with a single card , one account must be nominated as the Primary Account to which all transactions relate unless you select a different account for a particular transaction , for example because there are insufficient funds in the Primary Account to meet the withdrawal . |
| 22 | You could , as the camera goes by you can see where all the sellotape and the gum 's stuck to boxes . |
| 23 | It follows that even by she would again have finished her degree in the Summer of nineteen ninety two . |
| 24 | From various tables near by she could hear a handful of languages being spoken : English , Italian , Malti , even Arabic . |
| 25 | The upshot of this is that , while melting of the rocks of the oceanic plate by itself might produce rocks similar to those of the oceanic volcanoes , when it gets melted at the Benioff zone , a great deal of other material is added , from the mantle ( peridotitic ) and from the continental crust ( granitic ) . |
| 26 | The calculator is OK , but by itself would n't earn the machine pocket space . |
| 27 | Jailing Storrie for seven years , Lord Coulsfield said : ‘ The robbery by itself would have been a serious matter but what followed in the shape of the sexual assault was a quite extraordinary and vicious episode . ’ |
| 28 | Fraud by itself may do no more than make the contract voidable . |
| 29 | If you just pick up a sherd of pottery , okay , that really by itself ca n't tell you an awful lot . |
| 30 | The land by itself could not support the population . |