Example sentences of "[prep] be by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 2 | This , in finely-worked bronze inlaid with semi-precious stones , is thought to be by the twelfth-century French master Nicola de Verdun and was presented to the Duomo by Giovanni Battista Trivulzio in 1562 . |
| 3 | Another more complete clock , believed to be by the same craftsman , that was in Wells Cathedral from at least 1392 is now in the Science Museum , London . |
| 4 | It was a good question , and suggested strongly that the Argyll interest was less powerful than it was believed to be by the community at large . |
| 5 | The memory of this tragic story has been kept alive throughout the centuries and continues to be by the occasional appearance of The Green Lady — a ghost said to cross the road from Thorpe Hall only to disappear into the trees opposite . |
| 6 | Anti-English slanders they were held to be by the genteel Victorian travellers who continued to come to the Pyrenees . |
| 7 | Her highest ambition was to be by the end of the day simply acceptable , to have done no rushing or crashing , committed no vehemence . |
| 8 | I also have an automatic washing machine but it has to be by the sink for the water to be pumped out and it has no wheels . |
| 9 | Both subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) provide that citation is to be by the board . |
| 10 | And hammered on the door so one of the teache and it was the class where I was too happened to be by the door there . |
| 11 | In many cases the clause provides that the appointment is to be by the president ( for the time being ) of the body concerned . |
| 12 | In my day well every man had an allowance er and we bought our own provisions but every man er they were supposed to be by the commissioners but you got I think seven and six pence a day each man got seven and six pence and we clubbed that money together and bought our provisions er like that . |
| 13 | After the sale , payment is guaranteed within seven days of the cattle leaving the farm which has to be by the Tueday following at the latest . |