Example sentences of "by [adj] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By political I mean those cases which arise out of controversial legislation or controversial action initiated by public authorities , or which touch important moral or social issues . |
| 2 | By 1737 it included 33 ships of the line . |
| 3 | By this they mean these explanations and facts , research and analysis , thought and hypothesis , abstractions and theories , are uncontaminated by subjective inclinations , personal prejudices , biases , all that sort of thing , so noticeable among non-scientists . |
| 4 | By this I mean those aspects of her I like least . |
| 5 | They say that until now paclitaxel for human drug use has been from felled trees , but in 1993 sources other than Pacific yew bark will be used on a commercial scale , and by 1995 they hope actual trees will no longer be needed to produce the drug . |
| 6 | By 1831 they controlled 7,000 spindles and , adding new mills and steam power , were to employ 510 hands by 1845 . |
| 7 | It was as if poets owed an explanation to the audience for being what they were , to bring creatures apart down to the level of ordinary folks ; as if the poet might be indulged his little failings and eccentricities as long as he allowed himself to be democratically mauled in public by thoughtless questioners or — even worse , much worse — by fellow-poets or by those who had poetic pretensions and who found in ‘ question time ’ an opportunity to assuage their jealousy or seek revenge for their own incompetence and mediocrity . |
| 8 | However , one of the arguments put forward by those who support all forms of field sports is that the landowners over whose land foxes and deer are being hunted and game birds shot , will maintain a more natural environment than if such activities did not take place . |
| 9 | Comedy , in any case , is not necessarily optimistic , and it can tellingly present a tragic world — a point readily overlooked by those who confuse literary forms like tragedy with states of mind like a tragic view of life , as if over-obsequious to a terminology or eager to be confused by one . |
| 10 | Is the Minister aware of the deep concern felt also by those who attend non-vocational classes in the evenings and at other times who , I am sorry to say , do not believe a word that the Minister says about continuing those classes ? |
| 11 | Whether we are consumers or citizens , we stand more chance of being robbed by persons who roam corporate suites than we do by those who roam public streets . |
| 12 | But the shock and outrage simulated by those who write these stories only perpetrate the idea that such goings-on are rare and extraordinary . |
| 13 | There are no manuals for this struggle , for it can only be done by those who have pure hearts and sharp wits and the wisdom to know themselves . |
| 14 | It needs to be avoided by those who have these problems . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , they also continue to be ignored by those who produce official reports and government guidelines . |
| 16 | He has no time for the fair-weather aid groups , who will only go to Romania in the summer and is annoyed by those who deliver basic supplies , take a few pictures and never return . |
| 17 | By 1774 she had 58 ships of the line : she is said to have possessed 72 in 1789 . |
| 18 | Multiply 44 by 3 which gives 132 stitches . |
| 19 | By 1864 it had 600 employees . |
| 20 | Yet twenty years later , largely as a result of the work of Maurepas , an energetic Secretary of State , she had nearly 50 ships of the line and was once more clearly the second-greatest European naval power The war of 1744–48 with Great Britain meant fairly heavy losses ; but by 1754 she possessed 57 ships of the line and 24 frigates . |