Example sentences of "[prep] it by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly , if the offence be not punishable in the Star-Chamber , the prohibition of it by proclamation can not make it punishable there : and after this resolution , no proclamation imposing fine and imprisonment was afterwards made , & c . |
| 2 | " If you 'll follow me now , " replied Hazel desperately , " I 'll have you out of it by sunrise . " |
| 3 | For as little as £100,000 , some of it by courtesy of the Department of Agriculture , Cuffey has turned 40 acres of rolling farm land into a snug 4,800-yard , par 66 course that high-handicap players especially , will enjoy and want to play again . |
| 4 | I had heard of it by name , but never quite knew what it was . |
| 5 | Rachaela did not like the look of it by night . |
| 6 | I know every word of it by heart . |
| 7 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 8 | ‘ Had to learn great chunks of it by heart . |
| 9 | ‘ But as I was packing the stuff into a carrier bag at the check-out I missed the butcher meat and sat a carrier bag on top of it by mistake . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The lighthouses were built , operated , financed and owned by private individuals , who could sell the lighthouse or dispose of it by bequest , ’ Mr Coase found . |
| 11 | It was a mammoth undertaking involving digging into the side of a sheer cliff face , much of it by hand since the proximity of buildings made the use of explosives hazardous . |
| 12 | You can buy packets of it by mail order from HDRA Sales Ltd Tel : 0203–303517 |
| 13 | We can get rid of much of it by subduction , but certain Orogenic episodes ( notably the Hercynian ) seem to have very little to show of the ocean floor . |
| 14 | This was because it amounted to a transfer back to X of property in the car ( because Y 's cheque had not been met ) in return for X waiving any right to enforce payment from Y. At the time of the repossession , X was unaware of Y's sale to Z and thus by repossessing the car with Y 's acquiescence , X obtained ownership of it by virtue of section 25(1) of the 1893 Act ( i.e. section 24 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ) . |
| 15 | The Open Software Foundation attempted to fan the flames of scandal at Unix Expo in New York last week when it broke the news that Sun Microsystems Inc has been funding the lawsuit brought against it by security software house Addamax last year ( UX No 331 ) . |
| 16 | The US federal court last week denied a motion by Berkeley Software Design Inc to dismiss the suit lodged against it by Unix System Laboratories for deceptive trade practices , unfair competition and false advertising ( UX No 392 , 394 ) . |
| 17 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works , see page four . |
| 18 | The suit is meant to head off a legal attack against it by Apple which Quorum believes is in the works . |
| 19 | one crucial thematic differentiation between ‘ genuine art ’ and that offered by the Culture Industry : both raise the issue and the possibility of happiness in their very being , as it were , and neither provides it ; but where one keeps faith with it by negation and suffering , the other assures us it is taking place . |
| 20 | Fawning yet fearless ; possessed of a certain saucy vulgarity , he gets away with it by virtue of his confidence man 's charm . |
| 21 | And , though the cats have not been polled on this point , I suspect they would share human mistrust of the new and unknown when approached with it by advertising researchers . |
| 22 | It is quite clear that the hard work put into it by coach Gerry Murphy is beginning to pay off . |
| 23 | Field barns were built to serve land lying some distance from the farmstead , or which could only be reached from it by way of steep hills . |
| 24 | If Target is being acquired out of a corporate group , it is likely that its immediate parent company will wish to extract value from it by way of a pre-acquisition dividend paid under a group income election , as this will preclude any charge to ACT on Target and will not be a taxable receipt for the parent company ( see ss208 and 247 Taxes Act 1988 ) . |
| 25 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 26 | They are constitutionally independent of the political executive and protected from it by security of tenure and other guarantees . |
| 27 | President Yang Shangkun , as the new First Vice-Chairman of the CMC , emphasized the party 's leadership over the Army and political building within it by education in the Four Cardinal Principles ( the socialist system , the dictatorship of the proletariat , the leadership of the Communist Party and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought ) and by opposing bourgeois liberalization . |
| 28 | Intellectual snobbery : he dismissed the bookshelves of the manse upstairs as ‘ rather a lady 's library , with some Latin books in it by chance ’ . |
| 29 | yeah , well let me just read you two or three verses from Exodus , chapter forty , this is what it says then the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle and throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the sons of Israel would set out , but if the cloud was not taken up then they did not set out until the day that it was taken up , for throughout all their journeys the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day and there was fire in it by night , in the sight of all the house in Israel and if you were to turn over to kings you 've got a , you 've got a similar thing there with the dedication of the temple and as Be Ben was saying the power really it 's the it 's the presence of God , the shine , the glory , that cloud of , and so what , what , what catches the Lord Jesus up is really the glory of God here he is , the , the riseness , the glorified Christ being called up into heaven in the , in the glory , what he 's been glorified , so he withdraws his physical , physical presence from one place here on earth to present there on the throne and yet by the holy spirit to be every where now Jesus then , he did n't cease to be truly man at either his resurrection or at his ascension , he stays man , God , the God man all the way through and it 's still true today he is the God man today and that 's important for you and me , think of the very worse experience that you have ever had in your life , think of the very worse experience that could happen to you , with the exception of you know that of , of say total failure of some awful sin , the worse thing , maybe a loss of someone dear to you , someone very close to you , er , er , a bereavement , the most awful experience you have had well he has gone through , he has known that experience , he has , has tempted in all points like as we are he knows our frame , he remembers were dust and he has been there and it is a man who has experienced those same experiences that you and I experience day by day , year after year , it is a man who has gone that , who has walked that path , who is in heaven interceding and praying for us , we 'll stop there cos time has gone erm we 'll stop there , we wo n't go on otherwise I 'll get into trouble During this past month some of the questions in the New Testament , the first one we looked at you remember was that question that Jesus asked of his disciples , do you believe that I am able to do this , then we looked at a question which the disciples asked of Jesus , why could we not cast it out last week we looked at another question , are only a few people going to be saved and this morning I 'd like us it 's the final one of these questions not that there are n't other questions in the New Testament and scores , scores of others but were just looking at four er throughout this month , I 'd like us to look this morning for one at , for a few minutes , at one that Jesus asked of a man who confronted him , I 'd like to read a few verses from Luke chapter eighteen , Luke chapter eighteen I 'm gon na read from verse thirty five , it 's the well known account of blind Bartimaeus , Luke chapter eighteen and verse thirty five and he came about that as Jesus was approaching Jericho a certain blind man was sitting by the road begging , now hearing a multitude going by he began to inquire |
| 30 | The regulations have one very unusual effect in that it is permissible to make a reproduction of a topography for the purpose of analyzing or evaluating that topography or the concepts , processes , systems or techniques embodied in it by section 226(1A) of the 1988 Act . |