Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game could be a bit quicker with more chances for catching opponents by surprise and I have no doubt that David Johnson ( Watsonians , Glasgow and Scotland ‘ A ’ coach ) will be studying the possibilities so that hopefully Watsonians will be at the fore in adapting their style . |
| 2 | THE NEXT TIME Heathcliff came to Thrushcross Grange , he met Isabella by chance in front of the house . |
| 3 | One is a bare-bones system that would start with just solar panels and could be developed bit by bit into a laboratory for space-shuttle crews to visit . |
| 4 | Active in increasing the authorized capital of this corporation , Sutton made money by insider dealing in its shares and was involved in the scandal following disclosures of extensive frauds in 1732 in which he himself lost severely . |
| 5 | Sprawled out across it were a rabble of Russian fugitives , whilst ahead a thin dark line of guns crept foot by foot towards the safety of the opposite shore . |
| 6 | The all clear was given building by building . |
| 7 | It is therefore difficult to compare products by packaging alone . |
| 8 | The Midland launches banking by telephone |
| 9 | Accepting payment by credit card |
| 10 | The neural networking technique , developed in the 1970s , mimics the biological neural network , enabling a system to ‘ learn ’ by example , to recognise patterns and data and to classify data by association . |
| 11 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 12 | You know that she read archeology by correspondence when she was at finishing school . |
| 13 | They were shown to a little table , where they would have to sit side by side . |
| 14 | The two rigs bringing up the rear , swung round in a complete circle , and reversed to sit side by side some thirty yards from the front door . |
| 15 | To attract a female , the two males sit side by side and call . |
| 16 | The humbucker is in fact two single coil pickups placed side by side and can be coil-tapped by means of a mini-switch between the master volume and tone controls , the latter being centre indented to give passive boost and cut , similar in effect to Fender 's TBX system . |
| 17 | The first three Gospels , Matthew , Mark and Luke , if placed side by side , are seen , at one and the same time , to be both similar and dissimilar . |
| 18 | Before , the individual elements of the design were simply placed side by side . |
| 19 | One can , for instance , easily imagine circumstances in which oral utterances including recollections from different times and places are , as it were , placed side by side as in a debating chamber and where the listeners could then recognise contradictions and employ their ‘ critical ’ faculties . |
| 20 | Two canvas chairs were placed side by side in a machine that begged comparison with the Wright brothers ' first efforts . |
| 21 | " Well , " said Mrs Whitfield at last , sitting upright inside the corset of her strong short-sleeved brown dress , with her fat upper arms and fat brown forearms , fat hands with the little rings twinkling on them , all disposed regularly about her , her feet — no doubt , though Alice could not see them — placed side by side . |
| 22 | At that date the subject-matter of the photographs was perfectly legible and the works gained their force and content from the way two or more photographs were placed side by side : a woman 's face in close-up , an ominous highway at night . |
| 23 | At the moment , the gloves and hat were placed side by side on the gleaming wood of the table before her and her hands were folded in an attitude of prayer — although her humour was anything but reverent . |
| 24 | The whole city centre and industrial areas , when seen as a vast cityscape from the air in the film 's opening shots , was ‘ Ridley 's Inferno ’ , and actually consisted of three tabletop models , each 6 x 13 feet ( 1.8 x 4m ) , placed side by side to give an area 18 feet ( 5.5m ) wide and 13 feet ( 4m ) deep . |
| 25 | The Key Card and the green form are intended to be placed side by side and are reproduced on pages 448–451 . |
| 26 | Minimal pairs and nearly minimal pairs should be placed side by side across the lists . |
| 27 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 28 | Below is an example from French , where separate drills of each tense ( already individually mastered ) would be placed side by side preferably in a meaningful frame and drilled across . |
| 29 | These cards could then be placed side by side in the fashion you want to practise . |
| 30 | These two tasks completed , the exposed pith was cut into narrow strips like ribbons , which were then placed side by side on a large , perfectly-flat slab of limestone which was kept permanently damp by boys scattering water on it , ever-moving fingers flicking across from earthenware pots . |