Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd much rather sit by the pool . ’ |
| 2 | When she felt she could not naturally stand by the window any longer she went and inspected the gritty old review copies of books which had somehow collected over the years on the office shelves — Take Your Car to North Africa ! |
| 3 | Schools were started in the monasteries , for Charles proclaimed that ‘ Men of God should not only live by the rule and dwell in holy conversation , but should devote themselves to literary meditations , each according to his ability , that they may be able to give themselves to the duty of teaching others . ’ |
| 4 | What it seems to mean is that evolution did not normally proceed by a process of gradual change of one species into another over long periods of time . |
| 5 | Thus , if there is to be a section about ‘ microtext history ’ and another section about ‘ macrotext history ’ , they can not both go by the name ‘ history ’ . |
| 6 | First , he saw himself as charged with a mission ( that of maintaining peace and unity ) which he could not simply renounce by an act of free will . |
| 7 | However , the new versions do not support the de facto OSF/Motif graphical user interface standard — though the Sun version does support OpenLook — and Motif support may not even feature by the time the RS/6000 version is delivered , though ICL says it is working on it . |