Example sentences of "be [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , neither the mews house nor any stick of furniture in it had been his by law , but they had chosen many of the items together — she relying upon his artist 's eye , he upon her money to purchase whatever his gaze admired . |
| 2 | How are yours by the way ? |
| 3 | Just one question was asked to each of the chosen seven : How heavily influenced are you by the sentiments of groups like The Smiths and do you think that a record like that is capable of causing a drastic change in your attitudes to a subject like vegetarianism ? |
| 4 | How easily persuaded are you by advertising ? |
| 5 | ‘ Are you by yourself ? ’ he asked , his eyes probing the further corners of the room . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you by any chance prudish ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Are you by any chance due for a visit from the tax man or the VAT inspector in the near future ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Are you by any chance Irish ? ’ he asked . |
| 9 | Who are you by the way ? ’ |
| 10 | cor he said your early , I said yes , so are you by the looks of it , got a fiver and you 've had that much out of it . |
| 11 | Erm are you , how old are you by the way ? |
| 12 | The question is : are we by definition confined to making changes to the curriculum on a purely individual basis to ensure that the teaching individual children receive is appropriate to their needs ? |
| 13 | Where are we by this time ? |
| 14 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 15 | And once we are married the money will be yours by right . |
| 16 | Section 743(4) provides that where an individual has been charged to income tax on any income deemed to be his by virtue of s739 and that income is subsequently received by him , it shall be deemed not to form part of his income again for the purposes of the income tax acts . |
| 17 | Income tax chargeable under s739 shall be charged under Case VI of Schedule D. Thus , whether or not the income arises from an overseas trade is not relevant ; the charge is still under Case VI of Schedule D. Section 743(2) , however , provides that in computing the liability to income tax of an individual chargeable under s739 the same deductions and reliefs shall be allowed as would have been allowed if the income deemed to be his by virtue of s739 had actually been received by him . |
| 18 | Section 743(4) provides , specifically , for relief from double taxation : Where an individual has been charged to income tax on any income deemed to be his by virtue of section 739 and that income is subsequently received by him , it shall be deemed not to form part of his income again for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts . |
| 19 | There was a better than fifty fifty chance that the opera would be one by Verdi , who was born near Busseto . |
| 20 | Again , no society evolves in a vacuum : the supposed logic of class struggle is repeatedly vitiated by intervention from outside — be it by war or by foreign support for one group or another . |
| 21 | The chances of that must be nil by now . ’ |
| 22 | But that was reduced to 118 by the end of January and he hoped the figure would be nil by the end of March . |
| 23 | And I just wondered are they by her bed that 's all . |
| 24 | ‘ Master Gates , ’ he said , again in a loud voice , ‘ were you by any chance on the river bank last night ? ’ |
| 25 | He passed on his concern in a letter to Prince , who , as the ever-nervous and expectant recipient , was clearly in a state of anguish about it : ‘ I regret you should have determined upon embarking any portion of your Property in V.D.L. because from the ignorance of the parties whose names you mention , I fear least they should turn out Sharks and it would be a source of deep mortification to me were you by these means to lose any portion of the advantages you have obtained by years of anxiety and deep mental study . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Were you by any chance in a hurry to get somewhere ? ’ he asked mildly . |
| 27 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 28 | ‘ You speak as if such privileges were mine by right , Your Grace . ’ |
| 29 | The responsibilities that we exercise through the general committee are quite well established and under the BAF arrangements they will be enshrined in the constitution as being ours by right . |
| 30 | Your whole life is nothing by a mystery , " Patrick raged . |