Example sentences of "[noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multiplying this result by gives . |
| 2 | Two years ’ hard work by and in talking to in-house experts and visiting other companies has resulted in a new guide for the international offshore oil industry . |
| 3 | to other things , we 've kind of veered of the , one of the subjects that we were er , we did get onto which was how the police and the courts er handle er well victims and indeed criminals , I wonder if I might conflate erm both those groups into one question , its a very broad question , but I wonder if you think by and large the police do a good job , erm button one for yes and button two for no , erm and the majority here say yes , seventy seventy people say yes the , the police do a good job and since we 've talked about the courts do you think the courts do a good job by and large ? , we 've been talking specifically about erm some of the more bizarre erm statements that have come from the bench , particularly in with reference to crimes erm , that have treated against women , well now , seventy nine say no , so the police comes thumbs up , but the courts are way down , now not surprisingly there are n't many representatives from the courts er amongst this hundred |
| 4 | Yet , without minimising the very real material and political benefits gained by ordinary working-class people in the 1940s , one must recognise the qualitatively ambiguous nature of these welfare innovations : a National Health Service which greatly benefited working-class women and children but also consolidated the power of an elite of consultants ; secondary education for all , but qualitatively differentiated , with selection by and large on grounds of social class , and the independent sector left intact ; a comprehensive social security system , but with benefit rates no higher in relation to average earnings than they had been in the 1930s . |
| 5 | The corollary of that is that there should n't be development by and large in the countryside . |
| 6 | ‘ For surely vagrants like us prefer to pass each other by . ’ |
| 7 | The very deliberate rejection of ‘ is ’ and its replacement by ‘ subsists in ’ opened the door to acceptance of the , at least , partial ecclesial status of other Christians and other ecclesiastical bodies . |
| 8 | The detail of planning legislation by and large fell to a number of able officials who had a remarkably free hand . |
| 9 | In English the word by is used for this purpose : |
| 10 | There is the laying by of all the necessary materials . |
| 11 | They include Documenta Portrats , an impressive 170 portraits of participating artists taken during the installation of their works , by the German photographer , Dirk Bleicker , with an accompanying text in German and English ( DM28 ) , and a documentation of Joseph Kossuth 's conceptual installation ‘ Das Passagenwerk ’ with a text by Denys Zacharapoulos ( DM24 ) . |
| 12 | Struck me as a dull lot by and large . |
| 13 | My family are a nice lot by and large . ’ |
| 14 | If they do , it is thought unwise to allow them to come and settle in this country by and large . |
| 15 | The Frenchman on pole made a poor getaway and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 16 | Prost on pole made a poor start and Senna took the early lead , holding it for 23 laps before Prost , after several previous attacks had been rebuffed , forced his way by . |
| 17 | The problem by and large is a problem of levels , and whilst the bottoms of the pits now support fully grown trees these are Separated from the surrounding fields and roads by massive chalk cliffs — in some places several hundred feet high ! |
| 18 | Amer Midani , United 's second largest shareholder , had apparently annoyed Edwards last weekend by with his call for the public flotation of the shares . |
| 19 | Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description . |
| 20 | The latest release by extends these version control capabilities by providing interfaces so that with tools such as Intersolv Inc 's PVCS can track software changes . |