Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they were cut off from the mainstream anyway , both sexually and socially , they had nothing to lose by outrageousness in their clothes ’ . |
| 2 | As a result , I reacted in front of the jury in a way which may have made them think that , in fact , the defence had nothing to lose by disclosure of the statement . |
| 3 | There 's a good chance that someone affected by alcoholism works for you . |
| 4 | He had the look of someone felled by sleep , and just wakened . |
| 5 | There is nothing manufactured by man that has not been designed , because whether it 's a Rolls-Royce engine or a piece of printed paper , there 's always a decision to be made not only about what it 's going to look like but about how it is going to be made and how it is going to operate . |
| 6 | All evils have to be dealt with ; nothing happens by accident ; every occurrence that threatens his existence has to be explained . |
| 7 | Evelyn Tubb 's delivery of ( track 3 ) , accompanied by three viols , and later of ( track 18 ) is marked by her attention to textual nuance , at times singing of love as if merely a narrator , and at others with the passion of somebody overtaken by emotion . |
| 8 | In the first place , everyone travels by car and therefore everyone has first-hand knowledge of how awful the roads are . |
| 9 | The choice between going for a company limited by shares or one limited by guarantee is thus largely dependent on whether the surveyors involved are having to put up most of the funds themselves . |
| 10 | While some may see the whole area of aesthetic response as one limited by hedonism or elitism , or may wish to view it as a superficial frill of little relevance to the real world of materialistic values , others are able to propose valid reasons why investigation into the nature of aesthetic experience should be pursued . |
| 11 | No one wins by defending . |
| 12 | Everything designed by man , actively by the making of a thing or passively by the comprehension of signals , acquires a scenario . |
| 13 | In an instant the rabbits were running in all directions through the bean-rows , each one tearing by instinct towards holes that were not there . |
| 14 | The classic GUI is the one designed by Apple in the early 1980s for their Macintosh range of computers . |
| 15 | 14.45 : Secretary informed me that Class Teacher had written a letter to parent of child with Head Lice to replace one written by Head . |
| 16 | Two demonstrators were killed and one injured by machine gun fire from inside the Iraqi consulate-general in Istanbul on April 5 . |
| 17 | Although reports indicated that there continued to be widespread resistance to any dilution of the CSCE 's unanimity rule [ see p. 38314 ; 38366 ] , questions about its merits resurfaced after the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd on Sept. 10 urged the conference to seek ways of strengthening the CSCE 's mechanisms for the protection of human rights , adding that the UK was " certainly in favour of moving beyond the present situation where everything happens by consensus " . |
| 18 | She appears spellbound , she thought — like one enchanted by love and romance … |
| 19 | This is the pattern of the squid and octopus eye as well as of the artificial mechanical one built by man , the camera . |
| 20 | ICI believes that if the UK is to meet its EC target then a whole new infrastructure of plastics collection , cleaning and separation is needed and that an industry-led response is preferable to one operated by government . |
| 21 | Petherbridge mentions Chekhov and Shakespeare , but , for him , theatre is something made by performance not writing . |
| 22 | This is one to play by ear . |
| 23 | 7.10 Natural TL glow curve ( N ) from a sample of pottery , and one produced by addition of a beta radiation dose in the laboratory to an identical sample ( N + Β ) . |
| 24 | The effect was , in Dexter 's view , unflattering and vaguely sinister , like the one produced by trick mirrors at fairgrounds . |
| 25 | The main question to which I return intermittently throughout this chapter , and with which it concludes , is one raised by implication in Howard 's writings , but not addressed directly by him . |
| 26 | Mr Ramsay promised to give a pound for every one raised by subscription . |
| 27 | A uniform , like the one worn by sixth-former Ruth Botting ( above ) can set you back up to £400 , according to our sums . |
| 28 | ‘ Humility and humour ’ were essential requirements , and Stirling declared that ‘ the S.A.S. brooks no sense of class … the idea of a crack regiment is one officered by aristocracy … in the S.A.S. we share with the Brigade of Guards a deep respect for quality , but we have an entirely different outlook . |
| 29 | One survived by guile . |
| 30 | Bevin did have a view of Europe , but it was a limited one conditioned by pragmatism and scepticism . |