Example sentences of "but by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1984 and 1986 , those with AIDS died on average some ten months after diagnosis , but by 1987 to 1989 , the survival period had already doubled to twenty months . |
| 2 | The romantic equation of orphan and monster makes a Satanist of this forlorn Dyer : ‘ nor can we but by doing Evil avoid the rage of evil Spirits . ’ |
| 3 | There will probably also be some classes in radio , television and film techniques and perhaps singing too , but by far the largest proportion of time will be allotted to the production exercise which is part of every term 's work . |
| 4 | But by March 1951 , it was clear that even this reform did not satisfy the Irish hierarchy who had also been lobbied by the Irish Medical Association to oppose the scheme . |
| 5 | It is likely that this is caused not by having less religious education , but by the fact that they tend to be peopled by children of classes who have traditionally fewer links with the church , and include parents making active decisions to keep their children out of the clergy 's grasp . |
| 6 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 7 | Our civilization will be destroyed , he wrote , not by the Bomb but by its reverence for the Creative Spirit . |
| 8 | But by the time he had gathered up her handbag and Lord Woodleigh 's camera , which had come to rest nearby , she was able slowly to make her way with them to the nearest point where the accident could be reported . |
| 9 | I did n't ask to fall in love with you , but by God , lady , I have , and I have every reason to believe you want to as well . ’ |
| 10 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 11 | But by the time Parasites Of Heaven was written an intensely negative aspect is unveiled : ‘ The nightmares do not suddenly develop happy endings , I merely step out of them . ’ |
| 12 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 13 | But when she came up against Australia 's Michelle Jaggard , a more experienced player but by no means a world-beater , she struggled even to get a game . |
| 14 | It seems to me that the successful professionals make their money not be selling their wares , but by selling their skills — by writing books , running courses , making videos , holding seminars and giving demonstrations — in short , by teaching others how to do it . |
| 15 | But by using an auxiliary collecting tank I am able to increase the capacity by more than eight time , thereby avoiding having the empty the vac so frequently . |
| 16 | As for the West Midlands , it tried various shades of red , white , blue , and grey and even canary yellow but by the end of 1989 had still not got its formula worked out . |
| 17 | But by 1985 the sad reality had to be faced that — so far as InterCity was concerned — the market had changed , probably for ever . |
| 18 | Under McAlpine 's ‘ Pullman Rail ’ banner , the Pullmans returned to railtour duties in September 1984 — but by now Pullman Rail , with former SLOA secretary Bernard Staite as managing director , had also acquired from BR a second full rake of coaches — Mk 1 first opens , ostensibly for steam railtour work . |
| 19 | In 1979 there were over 150,000 vehicles authorised for main-line running , but by 1989 the total had fallen to around 40,000 . |
| 20 | But by the time Fokine produced The Firebird he had developed his mimed dance much further . |
| 21 | A skyhook , then an unbelieving lunge and there I was , like a shipwrecked sailor washed up on the shore of an uninhabitable island , safe for the moment but by no means home . |
| 22 | Probably due to the newness of our sample , this proved quite difficult to do , but by the end of the test it was getting easier , either because the sleeve was wearing in , or because we were developing the knack — you must push the sleeve right back . |
| 23 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 24 | The experience of reading major works of literature can have an overpowering effect on the responsive reader ( usually , but by no means invariably , the young reader ) . |
| 25 | Michael Roberts has been booked for another fancied horse in Red Paddy , but the best-backed horses yesterday were Blue Orca , who is as low as 12-1 with Ladbrokes but still 16-1 with Hills , and Tafila , who was offered at 33-1 yesterday morning but by the evening was generally 16-1 . |
| 26 | Such people are not all motivated simply by money , but by an interest in building and in architecture and , like everyone else , they have to live with their creations . |
| 27 | The implication is that style is inconsequential and almost content-free , and that speculative buildings are not really designed by architects , but by commercial forces . |
| 28 | He does n't prove by feat of arms , but by words , that he is not any more the dissipated boy that he was ; but that is enough . |
| 29 | But by the introduction of student loans , and the end of free tuition , it will make entry into higher education dependent more than ever on the size of a parent 's bank balance . |
| 30 | The Australian , Craig Parry , misses Wentworth , but by his own volition . |