Example sentences of "say by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 2 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 3 | Such cats can become a real problem if their rigid daily routine is upset — say by the death of an elderly owner . |
| 4 | They say by the end of the year NeXT and Microsoft will probably be the only companies not part of COSE . |
| 5 | IN THESE PAGES I want to discuss the possibility that the goal of theoretical physics might be achieved in the not-too-distant future : say by the end of the century . |
| 6 | With other forms of " numbering " , say by the letters of the alphabet , you could still not guarantee to fill all the pages . |
| 7 | Like you say by the time the sun comes round ? |
| 8 | say by the way Jim you could have fixed that boiler take everyone off the pipes |
| 9 | So , say as , say erm , say by the time you 're you 're probably , mm , I du n no , thirty . |
| 10 | Fujitsu Ltd has come out with a new multimedia multiplexer in its DMIX series , one of a series of multiplexers designed for its Network Solution 2000 network architecture : the new E-2570 DMIX has a capacity of 10 data channels and six speech voice channels , and comes between the large capacity E-2570 DMIX and the compact E-2300 series Compact MUX ; Fujitsu expects to sell 5,000 units over three years , starting in June , at a price of $73,000 ) ; the E-2500 series DMIX and E-2300 series Compact MUX were released in September last year and Fujitsu says by the end of last month , sales to 100 companies had been made . |
| 11 | Bloodied but unbowed , Motorola Inc says by the year 2000 it will be delivering 120 million 680x0s annually from 10 factories worldwide . |
| 12 | turns round to you half way through the job and says by the way you must do this . |
| 13 | The same , as is increasingly being said by the colony 's elder statesmen , is true of Hong Kong 's present relations with China . |
| 14 | Mr Ra won his wager by building a 40-foot-high pyramid in Salt Lake City , making sacramental wine in it , and selling the stuff to religious groups — wine made in pyramids was said by the ancient Egyptians to have supernatural powers . |
| 15 | But if what I have said by the light of a new candle is true — and who can doubt it ? — then even the elderly beeches and majestic old oaks of a remembered Forest of Dean are not capable of withstanding the fungoid of stress or the vegetable odours of spiritual decay . |
| 16 | In this climate , Goebbels 's essay , ‘ The Jews are Guilty ’ , in Das Reich , with its express reference to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ , was said by the SD do have ‘ found a strong echo ’ in the population , with critical comments coming from church-going circles . |
| 17 | Three of the five who had no visitors were said by the people we interviewed to have had no relatives . |
| 18 | While there was , from the platform , evidence of considerable care and attention being paid to the potential physical hazards of the industry , little or nothing was said by the industry 's speakers about the effects of chemicals or their by-products on the environment . |
| 19 | We have not yet compared ‘ It 's me ‘ , said by the victim of amnesia in hope of recognition ’ with ‘ I 'm here ’ in reply to ‘ Where are you ? ’ , in respect of having a meaning as distinct from a use . |
| 20 | A parallel remark about ‘ It 's me ’ would be that in so far as ‘ It 's me ’ , said by the victim of amnesia in hope of recognition , has a meaning , as distinct from a use , its meaningfulness is parasitic on the meaningfulness of ‘ It 's me ’ in reply to ‘ Who is the youngest professor ? ’ , the meaningfulness of this being conditional on the possibility of distinguishing people . |
| 21 | At this point the community adviser suggests narrowing the scope of the post but Chris Cousins , the Deputy Head Community , takes the opportunity to challenge what has been said by the other deputy when he remarks : |
| 22 | Meanwhile , reports that Novell is planning a multi-server version of its IPX software router in order to provide companies with a low-cost alternative to software routers are said by the company to be ‘ very misleading ’ . |
| 23 | The Tigers were said by the government to have blown up the defence minister , Ranjan Wijeratne , in March 1991 , and a general , Denzil Kobbekaduwa , in August 1992 . |
| 24 | Intel has been quietly improving the performance of its next-generation iAPX-86 variant — which now , said by the company to be at over 100 MIPS , is more than equivalent to MIPS ' R4000 RISC — and has brought forward its delivery dates . |
| 25 | It has been said by the courts that there are good reasons of public policy to enforce such time-limits : public programmes ought not to be suspended or held up indefinitely for fear of a challenge at some later date . |
| 26 | Before luncheon started , Grace was said by the Chaplain to the Lord Mayor the Venerable Archdeacon Doctor Brian Kirk-Duncan . |
| 27 | Having secured his new gun licence , however , the youth , who was said by the police to be ‘ nightly associated with a gang of Hooligans who undoubtedly used revolvers ’ , had then waltzed into such a commonplace retail outlet as a barber 's shop and purchased a five-chamber revolver . |
| 28 | In Nuclear Tests unilateral statements of the French authorities were said by the Court to have been made ‘ publicly and erga omnes ’ . |
| 29 | As was said by the Royal Commission , the police should not , on a warrant to search for a stolen grand piano , look under the floorboards or in the water cistern . |
| 30 | Solemn Mass was said by the Archbishop of Lisbon , who was assisted by a crew of pink-capped bishops , monsignors and one of the priests of the newly formed Society of Jesus . |