Example sentences of "[pron] by the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 2 | Sarah told Maureen that she had received one by the same post . |
| 3 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 4 | He knew only too well what would happen ; no doubt his stepfather would have the daily help to come in and take care of him , but as far as the business was concerned , it would likely be whipped from under him by the many land sharks who would prey on the defenceless old man without the slightest compunction . |
| 5 | This is also the period when he hired as chauffeur and typist a young man , Alfred Agostinelli , who drove him to the seaside in a closed car , took him by the same means to visit many Romanesque churches in Normandy , and who was killed when the plane he was learning to fly crashed into the sea off Antibes in nineteen fourteen . |
| 6 | He would of course be equally or more aware of a nagging toothache , but there is the further difference that while he would shrink from awareness of the pain , in this case he wants to sustain and enhance the awareness just as he wanted to come to Regent 's Park in the first place , and can be judged to want it by the same kind of tests , for example his reluctance to be dragged away from the cage . |
| 7 | For though you and your ancestors got your property by murder and theft , and you keep it by the same power from us that have an equal right to the land with you by the righteous law of creation , yet we shall have no occasion of quarrelling … |
| 8 | For its part , the trial does not test factual accuracy alone and does not test it by the same method as that employed by the police in their own investigation . |
| 9 | An untapped telephone number was to be communicated to the gang , who would use it to pass on further details , identifying themselves by the same method they had used with Valesio . |
| 10 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 11 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |