Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can only stop it by international agreement and enforcement . |
| 2 | The courts have not helped him by sensible pronouncements . |
| 3 | Boys , he said , needed ‘ excitement ’ , and if they could not get it by legitimate ways then they would ‘ seek it in mischief and vice ’ . |
| 4 | For the English kings , on the other hand , war was an attempt to assert historic and feudal rights to Aquitaine , Normandy , and other parts of France , as well as their legal claim to the French crown , which had been unjustly denied them by successive French kings . |
| 5 | So what they normally do is they also give you by continuous intravenous drip They f have to feed you by this tube , |
| 6 | The first , and political argument , is that historicism ‘ desires ’ not only to predict change but also to control it by centralized large-scale planning . |
| 7 | For instance , he took her to a newly opened Greek restaurant , and introduced her to the delights of something called Baklava Syrien , which , having a sweet tooth , she very much enjoyed — although he managed simultaneously to annoy her by various highly irritating remarks about the way in which West Indians eat Kit-e-Kat , and by a joke about a man in a Chinese restaurant who found a finger in his Chinese soup . |
| 8 | There is a problem of access to affordable housing , all I 'm saying is that you do n't solve it by wholesale allocation of land . |
| 9 | ‘ I wo n't embarrass you by probing , ’ she said kindly . |
| 10 | That would protect the recovery ( and even enhance it by encouraging spending in advance of tax increases ) . |
| 11 | We sold the residual sixteen years , approx , to a client represented by Harvey Gough & partners , who soon afterwards resold it by private treaty to a small company whose name I have not yet discovered , with the rumoured intention that it would be turned into a private nursing home . |