Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unsure if she felt relieved or irritated by his high-handed orders , she mutinously followed his easy stride and wide , supple shoulders downstairs . |
| 2 | To act on or defy a socially established rule has effects on all who benefit or suffer by its observance . |
| 3 | Nor was she at all put off or frightened by his intensity , when he flew into a temper if a drawing went badly . |
| 4 | Regardless of the worthiness of any concept the actual product will stand or fall by its quality and here InteSoft leaves something to be desired . |
| 5 | He would stand or fall by his policies and , to prove it , he gave one year 's notice of his resignation . |
| 6 | The former research scientist , who has resigned his seat on Middesbrough Council , said he would stand or fall by his record over the last few months . |
| 7 | They watched among the crowd as Eachuinn Odhar was lifted ashore unconscious , and Hector , under David Beaton 's supervision ; and over a hundred others , to be carried or helped by their keening womenfolk up to castle or clachan . |
| 8 | It is not caused by the absence of encouragement or love , nor prevented or helped by their presence . |
| 9 | Many of the records — ‘ pinched ’ from or discarded by his musical family — were scratched and worn , but it was Music with a capital ‘ M ’ and the first time I heard the Chopin first piano concerto , we nearly had a fight because I insisted on playing it right through four times . |
| 10 | It was hard to decide if he was laughing at her or impressed by her performance . |
| 11 | … but it is a different sort of objectivity than that permitting and defining assertibility in the sciences and impossible to verify or vindicate by their kinds of instruments and tests . |
| 12 | Lacan wished to get back to the original subversive spirit of Freud 's writings , which had been simplified or distorted by their vulgar popular currency , and by the professionalism of psychoanalysis . |
| 13 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 14 | The goals of the organisation are on the whole shared or accepted by its members : only the means of achieving them are in dispute . |
| 15 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |
| 16 | She giggled suddenly and took another swig from the bottle , carelessly wiping away the champagne that trickled down the sides of her mouth with the back of her hand , in a gesture that proved to this man she was n't the least bit impressed or intimidated by his overbearing attitude . |
| 17 | It consists of 150 key works by 120 different artists , all of whom were rejected or misunderstood by their contemporaries . |
| 18 | The basic principle in operant learning is that an item or sequence of behaviour is strengthened or weakened by its consequences . |
| 19 | ‘ Some feel unable to stand by their man ; they feel horrified at the crime , or betrayed by his ‘ double life ’ . |
| 20 | The likely profit for most individuals is likely to be as large as a percentage point or two in the wage settlement made by their unions , or offered by their employer . |
| 21 | Some lots were damaged or dulled by their long immersion , but this only seemed to stimulate buyers . |
| 22 | The King 's main object in forcing the Act through Parliament was to regain the revenue from the perquisites enjoyed by a feudal lord and paid or owed by his tenants , known as the incidents of feudal tenure which had been depleted by the practice of conveying land to uses ( see below , Chapter 5 ) . |
| 23 | We can not assume , of course , that girls simply accept the images portrayed of them in textbooks ; a concentration on content analysis of textbooks does not tell us whether they are ignored , accepted , or challenged by their users . |
| 24 | Just as young children will cry and remonstrate or say ‘ do n't leave me ’ , so the adult may use just the same words or convey by their behaviour that this is their worry . |
| 25 | Her occasional protestations of being moved by Dame Freya 's works or touched by her personality read like sops — a pretence of even-handedness — in a narrative of quiet , relentless aggression . |
| 26 | In areas of policy where liberal corporatism prevails political leaders and party organizations are either excluded defacto from policy-making or compelled by their dependence upon the external elites to surrender some of their public powers to steer the state . |
| 27 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 28 | And people lived or died by their ability to , to produce a competent result at the end of the day . |
| 29 | Organization : There is a Committee of Ministers ( consisting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of all member states ) which decides with binding effect all matters of internal organization , makes recommendations to governments and may also draw up conventions and agreements ; a Parliamentary Assembly of 170 members who are elected or appointed by their national parliaments from among the members thereof to speak for public opinion , not to represent their governments ; and a Secretariat , the current Secretary-General being Catherine Lalumiere ( since May 1989-ibid . ) . |
| 30 | The managing director of a big British agency , when he heard his colleagues saying that an agency stands or falls by its creative department used to reply , " No — it stands or falls by its progress control department . " |