Example sentences of "went by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst hazard , though , was that as the days went by the Sumatra seemed to become increasingly irresponsible . |
| 2 | As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise . |
| 3 | Standards went by the board as they sensed a chance to break Drexel 's dominance of the junk-bond business . |
| 4 | All efforts to appear polite and subdued went by the board . |
| 5 | A fire engine went by the kiosk with that excruciating ooh-ah ooh-ah ooh-ah of urban alarm . |
| 6 | They had such unwieldy purposes — restoring relations with Iran , saving the hemisphere from Communism — that technical details , such as finding aircraft that could fly , sometimes went by the board . |
| 7 | And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse , the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board . |
| 8 | Apart from a particularly vicious-looking nose-job and alarming turquoise-coloured contact lenses , Rytasha is rather beautiful , and in the 1970s , when she went by the name of Ricki , she was a successful model ( she began life as Maxine Shenkman ) . |
| 9 | I went by the Galerie de Diane and then down the stairs leading to the basement in the Pavillon de Flore where I followed the underground passage , badly lit — but where were the kitchens ? |
| 10 | All that went by the board with the first wave of redundancies . |
| 11 | At first relations between the PLO outside and the Patriotic Front inside were cordial , but as time went by the PLO leadership became increasingly uneasy about the Patriotic Front taking its own initiatives . |
| 12 | Searing heat during the day and bitter cold at night had to be contended with , and thus regulation dress went by the board . |
| 13 | To cite a small example from my own research , anyone wishing to examine , say , the strange attempt at a revolution in Britain in January 1941 that went by the name of ‘ The People 's Convention ’ will have difficulty in the British Library . |
| 14 | As time went by the relief and pleasure at resuming a form of expression that ‘ seems to fit my thoughts better as I grow older , as it did when I was young also ’ became more obvious . |
| 15 | In the creep-show of English international football the man most Scots loved to hate was a perm-headed striker who went by the name of Kevin Keegan . |
| 16 | The ‘ wildlife element went by the board to some degree , earning any claim to the title by default , rather than by any positive features . |
| 17 | A large man of ferocious appearance with thick black hair and beard , illiterate and unprepossessing , he went by the name of Black Will . |
| 18 | Which , presently , Meh'Lindi did , ravenously consuming fish , flesh and fowl from out of the stasis-boxes which they had brought to the suite from Jaq 's ship , the Tormentum Malorum , which went by the alias of Sapphire Eagle while they were visiting Stalinvast . |
| 19 | We used to play golf , but went by the board when he moved . |
| 20 | They went by the title of ‘ The Proprietors of the Invention for raising Water by Fire ’ , and no one could build an engine without their licence . |
| 21 | But as time went by the marriage turned sour . |
| 22 | They went by the sea route ; the night was clear and calm . |
| 23 | Most rock critics take this line , seeing Elvis 's career as a progressive sell-out to the music industry , a transition from ‘ folk ’ authenticity ( the Sun singles of 1954–5 ) to a sophisticated professionalism ( epitomized by the ballads and movies of the 1960s ) in which the dollars multiplied but musical values went by the board . |
| 24 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 25 | Each formation consisted of no more than fifty men , and they were no longer called ribelli , rebels , but went by the name of their commandant . |
| 26 | He went by the window , without a glance , and moved on into the night . |
| 27 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 28 | She had left herself the early part of the evening free , and she had just finished dressing when Florian and Nicky dropped in to show her some new photos of the fair South African child who went by the name of Joni Jones , Florian having insisted on the first and the name with which he had replaced his original , paradoxically both more and less ordinary name , having been legalised in both countries whose passports he held , the United Kingdom and South Africa . |
| 29 | That it was all undignified , that it was really rather unpleasant , that it was somehow dehumanizing for Harold — these considerations went by the board as he finally rolled on top of her , grunting fiercely in a tone no one at Magdalen would have recognized . |
| 30 | But as the work progressed , one thing at least went by the board , and that was his original Platonic outlook . |