Example sentences of "[pron] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I by good luck have had some copies of the petition sent down to me , so I started it , it immediately and I had in the first they made over one thousand one hundred and twenty five signatures . |
| 2 | Can I can I just raise a question er to r to clarify the point before I answer your question that I are am I are we to assume that in response to Mr , erm it 's on the record that there 's a er a request to add , clear expression of local preference I by local planning authorities ? |
| 3 | And if we can , we 're only looking to improve ourselves by five percent we 're not looking to improve , or increase double sales next week are we ? |
| 4 | DELIGHTED ‘ In the meantime we are saying thank goodness we showed the initiative to fund a scanner ourselves by public appeal . ’ |
| 5 | Section 1(6) states : No duty is owed by virtue of this section to any person in respect of risks willingly accepted as his by that person ( the question of whether a risk was so accepted to be decided on the same principles as in other cases in which one person owes a duty of care to another ) . |
| 6 | Keswick ; ore which was his by ancient right . |
| 7 | If , on the other hand , Henry II wished to maintain that the Vexin belonged of old to Normandy and was therefore his by hereditary right , it was safer not to confuse the issue by marrying Alice to one of his sons . |
| 8 | Peace did not reign for long as he provoked the ultimate chop for himself by one day taking his scissors to all of the models ' heads and cropping them . |
| 9 | He displaced himself by two miles south . |
| 10 | Not only has the right hon. Gentleman made an idiot of himself by that intervention , but he has achieved the interesting feat of misquoting himself . |
| 11 | Having excoriated the foolish historians and orientalists , however , Enzensberger nonetheless contradicts himself by rhetorical resort to a vague history . |
| 12 | The man they follow was a fine storyteller himself by all accounts — and there is no question they have some very good basic material . ’ |
| 13 | Schlick 's murder in 1936 terminated Waismann 's employment and his opportunities for supporting himself by private teaching . |
| 14 | Having committed himself by revealing defence secrets , such freedom of speech seemed a trivial matter . |
| 15 | There was a strange brightness in them , but when he spoke his voice was expressionless , like that of a man asserting control over himself by sheer force of will . |
| 16 | It is important to emphasise at the outset the magnitude of the task which the applicant has set himself by this appeal . |
| 17 | He stood flexing the body he had preserved to himself by hard exercise and the austere living that wore so deceptive a cloak of luxury . |
| 18 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |
| 19 | He was not the cleverest speaker in the house , a palm which by general consent went to the very Tory Charles Smyth , and the house also contained Patrick Devlin and Selwyn Lloyd and sometimes Rab Butler . |
| 20 | Poor unlucky soul ; he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time , and something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to . |
| 21 | New Year 's Eve in those early years had possessed a dull religious sheen , a pewter glimmer , which by much effort and polishing and dedication of the will could bring her a little light , a little hope , a little perseverance : but she had longed for the flames and the candles , the cut glass and the singing . |
| 22 | As respects England and Wales or Northern Ireland , any provision in an Act passed before 1st August 1958 that any order or determination shall not be called into question in any court , or any provision in such an Act which by similar words excludes any of the powers of the High Court , shall not have effect so as to prevent the removal of the proceedings into the High Court by order of certiorari or to prejudice the powers of the High Court to make orders of mandamus . |
| 23 | However , it 's the notes in the former chord which by intervallic interchange become chromatic notes in the latter chord , and it 's this approach which produces the most effective results . |
| 24 | The facts that might have prompted CSM to take a more serious view of Opren at its November 1981 meeting are : 1 its own unprecedented number of adverse reaction reports ; which by 1 November 1981 included over 20 deaths which reporting doctors suspected to be due to an Opren reaction ; 2 The reports of the Paris symposium , which it could have attended ; and 3 Dista 's suggestions for a change in the dosage recommendations . |
| 25 | The Soviet Military Encyclopedia in 1978 defined a neutral or neutralised zone as a defined geographical region in which by international agreement ( or the unilateral decision of a state to which this region belongs ) ‘ the preparation of military operations ’ is prohibited , and which ‘ can not be used as a theatre of military operations or a base for the conduct of war ’ . |
| 26 | Plus second-hand value of what I stand up in , which by current jumble sale rates would be maybe ten pounds or so . |
| 27 | This divine artificer was , in effect , the principle of reason , which by imposing order on chaos reduced it to the rule of law . |
| 28 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 29 | A German Zeppelin had flown over the Scottish coast at Leith , and dropped a bomb which by pure luck hit a bonded warehouse full of whisky , which went up in large flames , thus lighting up the darkened city . |
| 30 | There were music rooms , hairdressing salons , beauty parlours , libraries , laundries , chapels , theatres , ballrooms , nurseries , and gymnasiums and health clubs armed with equipment which by modern standards appear more intent on medieval torture than health improvement . |