Example sentences of "[vb base] go by [art] " in BNC.

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1 Disgusted Seagull Our best managers also happen to go by the rule that you 're only as good as your last game .
2 I must say , I had certain ambitions for higher education myself , but when you receive the call , as they say , those cherished dreams just have to go by the board .
3 Lord Denning expressed the view that , in any event , in ascertaining where the base was , the contract terms were often of little help and ‘ you have to go by the conduct of the parties and the way they have been operating the contract ’ .
4 ‘ We have to go by the referee 's decision .
5 But now that items are no longer individually labelled we , the public , have to go by the shelf price , and it makes me wonder how many other prices are incorrectly displayed .
6 Yeah , but I suppose they have to go by the general rule
7 In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant .
8 Many letters from friends have gone by the wayside but I have kept those from Emily Carr .
9 Manners that have gone by the board
10 ‘ Evil communications corrupt good manners , ’ says a Greek proverb , and in the polarised world we live in , where name calling and counter-check is the order of the day , it is not surprising that good manners and etiquette have gone by the board .
11 Thirty years , more or less , have gone by the boards since a ragtag group of artists converged on a spot in lower Manhattan called Coenties Slip .
12 Their principles have gone by the board .
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