Example sentences of "[adv] by [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extending these ideas , there have also been suggestions from socio-cultural anthropologists who have a leaning towards sociobiology , that , although the details of customs and moral rules and relational behaviours have to be learned afresh by each individual they are matters of culture — we may already know in advance how to organize such conventions into structured patterns by virtue of a genetically endowed predisposition to become enculturated . |
| 2 | Then the next week you 're adding a horn section , the week after that you 're adding singers , so by that time it becomes quite a big production . ’ |
| 3 | I was told in confidence last week , so by next week it will be public , that there are to be 200 redundancies now , and the rest will , hopefully , be effected by natural wastage . |
| 4 | They were unlikely to provide an adequate quantity of unflat best bitter in the rehearsal rooms so by special dispensation we had two bottles of white wine per day , which , of course , were shared between him and Michael , who drinks very little . |
| 5 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 6 | I suppose it was just by sheer chance you met up with Hilary Frome , was it ? ’ |
| 7 | situation that , you know , hopefully by next Christmas we 'll we 'll maybe be a bit |
| 8 | Fired up by that ambition he turned the Supper on end , and began to squeeze burnt umber directly on to the canvas , spreading it with a palette knife until the scene beneath was completely obscured . |
| 9 | On the dates that you 've anticipated if Mr comes back by that time we 'll be able to absorb the post , but it 's likely that he may move on from this , because it 's a fairly substantial move up . |
| 10 | Well by that time we 'll be into caravans wo n't we ? |
| 11 | Well by this time it was ten to eight and I 'd got all these members were going to be outside , I was going to have to let them in and serve them and I was getting a bit frantic you see . |
| 12 | A cosy little nest of vipers sent here by that bitch you serve . |
| 13 | Surely by that time it had become clear that if the Government plans for Local Management were ill-conceived , that the plans for Local Management were ill-conceived and had not been properly thought out . |
| 14 | Then by common consent we crab-walked through the foyer and out through the main doors , like kids escaping from double Greek which , in a way , we were . |
| 15 | Find out the best way to do it and then by this date we 're gon na assume a graph of procedures to work around what we decide is the best way to . |
| 16 | Somewhat taken aback by this development I tried to explain why I accepted without reservation the account in Genesis to be correct , adding of course that I also accepted that there are genuine brothers and sisters in Christ who are evolutionists . |
| 17 | Indeed by deictic expression we mean those linguistic units or morphemes that have a deictic usage as basic or central , for most such expressions have non-deictic usages . |
| 18 | Indeed by this time we were so in tune with one another that explanations were unnecessary . |
| 19 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 20 | Yet by any measurement it is an important factor . |
| 21 | In every case taken on by this Firm we appoint a Supervisor who has overall responsibility to the client for the way the claim is handled . |
| 22 | It is a bit like the well-known horde of monkeys hammering away on typewriters — most of what they write will be garbage , but very occasionally by pure chance they will type out one of Shakespeare 's sonnets . |
| 23 | The birds fatten beforehand for their long flight , and unless delayed seriously by bad weather they arrive on the breeding grounds with fat in reserve . |