Example sentences of "by [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , by about the middle of the morning we feel surprisingly alert — we might even not bother with sleep after all — and we appear to have overcome the effects of a lost night ‘ s sleep . |
| 2 | John took up with puppets by about the age of twelve . |
| 3 | As a result , by about the year 400 Christmas Day had become a significant date in the Christian Year : 25 December was chosen so as to exorcize the great pagan festival of the solar solstice . |
| 4 | The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands . |
| 5 | By about the end of the 18th century they began to be replaced by the brick and pantiles which form the pattern of the present village . |
| 6 | It did n't work , and by about the third instalment the outcry was such that we abandoned it . |
| 7 | By about the time when Belli published his Arie , this strophic form which Caccini had clearly distinguished from the solo madrigals in his Nuove musiche was overtaking the madrigal in popularity and quickly surpassed it . |
| 8 | By about the fifth month they will be able to hear the baby 's heartbeat with a stethoscope , and may feel if the baby moves — in any case , they will check with you that you can feel movements . |
| 9 | Ideally , the toe should just clear the ground by about the thickness of a 10p piece for most clubs ; a 2p for the short irons . |
| 10 | Sister Paul would pretend not to see me as I hung about outside around the staffroom to see her pass by for the third time that day . |
| 11 | Chairman erm I 'd start erm by for the Labour Group motion committee like people also who erm have actually sort of written to us letters repeat what they said but the vast vast majority that erm have expressed the genuine concerns of the people who have left work . |
| 12 | The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time . |
| 13 | So if you look as to how Kuwait grew by after the oil it gives a good example how we put the use of the oil to the betterment of mankind . |
| 14 | I sat as still as cold wax , watching the grey river slug by towards the girdered floodlights of Fulham football ground . |
| 15 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 16 | He places some more logs from a pile near by onto the fire and pushes an old , blackened kettle into the middle of the newly revived flames . |
| 17 | Yes so and I reckon quite frankly cos he 's living on that lay by up the end and I reckon he was hiding , do a runner or something or he ai n't up to something no good ! |
| 18 | Throw-in by into the penalty area , heads it away , jumps again but too late , blows his whistle does the referee Keith and the applause tells you that they 're happy at , they should be , it 's one goal each . |
| 19 | Even in the capital , life ticks by with the rhythm of the rice-growing cycle . |
| 20 | Software packages as yet to be developed and published for general release or as customized packages by with the same overall features of Inform , Workbase and Executive English . |
| 21 | by with the other day it looked clean . |
| 22 | Accordingly , the guidance given in P P G paragraph three should be followed by including the word normally in the policy requirement and the requirement for the new settlement to be beyond the outer edge of the York greenbelt so as to avoid the greenbelt , with then form part of the locational criteria one . |
| 23 | By including the words , avoiding areas of significant landscape value , you are by implication , directing it at areas which can be improved by for example a structure plan to increase or improve the landscape value of that area . |
| 24 | It will also integrate the operations of Archive faster than planned , completing the effort by within the first half of 1993 . |
| 25 | It will also ensure that decisions which affect our members are made by the activists employed by within the appropriate sections and industries . |
| 26 | hits his clearance to the halfway line , controlled immediately by inside the centre circle , he was unmarked , has to careful here , and he is n't careful , it 's won back by , now he 's got to the right , running into the penalty area , could do with an early cross , holds it up , slips it back , knocks it in to the middle now , jumps , does n't make contact , it 's headed away by and good play now between and , gets it back to , 's clearance , onto the head of , good header on too to . |
| 27 | Other diving duck , especially the goosander , were well up in number on this March count to total 47 , including 20 drakes , with two smew , both ‘ red-heads ’ , to be seen close by from the Birch causeway . |
| 28 | But his main problems stem not from the electrical appliance industry by from the American Football team — the New England Patriots — he bought for $85m in 1988 . |
| 29 | ‘ Not much of a rest for them in here , ’ I remarked , as a mortar bomb burst close by in the orchard , causing the barn to shake a load of debris from the rafters , covering everyone below in pigeon and probably hen shit . |
| 30 | Calm assessments were hard to come by in the shadow of a tragedy of such proportions . |