Example sentences of "[vb base] by the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
2 | Run by the few fell to the many , and |
3 | Run by the same management as the Nusa Dua Beach Hotel in Bali , this hotel 's accommodation comprises bungalows and cottages , all facing the crystal-clear sea . |
4 | The kings of Poland , often foreigners , their hands tied by promises made to the greater nobility at their accession , had to submit to continuous scrutiny and control by the same nobles . |
5 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
6 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
7 | For U K P L C to succeed in the years ahead , we simply have to agree objectives , navigate by the same map , and aim at the same goals . |
8 | before so I lent them , so he 's gone in I go by the same time as him we both got ta sign them |
9 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
10 | If all incomes rise by the same percentage amount , then those at the lower end of the income scale will , of course , receive a lower extra sum of money compared to those at the higher end of the income scale . |