Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Boaz was not just a relation by marriage , but he was erm one of Elimelech 's family . |
| 2 | He 's not a farmer by trade . |
| 3 | I 'm not a hater by nature . |
| 4 | Louis XIV , during much of his reign an aggressive ruler , was not a soldier by taste , outlook or training . |
| 5 | It 's not a fly by night firm . |
| 6 | That he is not a wing by inclination matters little . |
| 7 | Even a sale in a supermarket is usually a sale by description . |
| 8 | ICI shrugged off a decision by house broker Hoare Govett to pull its current year forecast back within the market average ( cutting from £1.04 billion to £900m pre-tax ) , the shares ending the session 9 higher at £12.58 . |
| 9 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 10 | He was perfectly entitled to do this by the statutes of the English Faculty ; but there being , at that date , no one in Oxford who could teach it , Lewis had to organize a tutor from Aberystwyth to be brought to Oxford once a week by train . |
| 11 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 12 | The dissipation somewhat exceeds the production and there is also a loss by advection — corresponding , as in a wake , to the supply of energy to newly turbulent fluid . |
| 13 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |
| 14 | Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) . |
| 15 | Citrine 's policy was the standard one : to hammer out a consensus by discussion . |
| 16 | Called the ‘ father of English canals ’ , Brindley was originally a millwright by trade , born in Derbyshire in 1716 and barely educated , but showing a natural genius for engineering in an age when that word was scarcely part of the vocabulary . |
| 17 | The correct answers were : British Rail 's racing promotion is Back a winner by train ; The Classic race run at Doncaster is the Coalite St Leger . |
| 18 | In East Punjab these were usually the same man , almost invariably a Brahmin by caste . |
| 19 | I ai n't a thief by nature . |
| 20 | The missionary officers had their groceries delivered twice a week by lorry from the nearest store which was nine or ten miles away . |
| 21 | And we will act where a push by government is needed to stimulate the provision of childcare . |
| 22 | Despite couchettes , electrification , high-speed trains , restaurant cars , and the arrival of the car and aeroplane , there are still travellers for whom rail journeys hold a particular magic , and places in the world where a journey by rail is almost as adventurous as Gladys Aylward 's . |
| 23 | In the decades since , it 's been glanced at by the likes of Hal Ashby , Anthony Quinn and Jack Nicholson , before finally arriving on the desk of Blake Edwards , where a script by Cry Freedom writer John Briley jostles for space with Son Of Pink Panther . |
| 24 | ( 4 ) Where a sale by auction is not notified to be subject to a right to bid on behalf of the seller , it is not lawful for the seller to bid himself or to employ any person to bid at such a sale , or for the auctioneer knowingly to take any bid from the seller or any such person . |
| 25 | However in this situation the auctioneer may not accept a bid on behalf of the seller ; s57(4) and ( 5 ) provide : ( 4 ) Where a sale by auction is not notified to be subject to a right to bid by or on behalf of the seller , it is not lawful for the seller to bid himself or to employ any person to bid at the sale , or for the auctioneer knowingly to take any bid from the seller or any such person . |
| 26 | Neil Jenkins of Pontypridd was badly exposed last season and the summer tour to Australia was truly a baptism by fire , but he has the physique to return to the top level if his confidence can be restored . |