Example sentences of "[modal v] be by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the amount available to her to spend will fall short of what it should be by the amount of that tax . |
| 2 | ‘ No ! ’ he said in a hoarse scream ; and even then he was still able to feel that it must be by the grace of God that what felt like the terror of an animal in extremity should produce a cry of respectable human rage . |
| 3 | The first attempt to retrieve the lost ferret must be by the use of a line ferret fitted with a transmitting device . |
| 4 | If trade unions are to have any success in organising contract computer staff it might be by the provision of non-traditional membership services . |
| 5 | I do n't know yet , I should think it 'll be by the end of the month |
| 6 | ‘ Who knows how much that total could be by the year 2000 . ’ |
| 7 | Furthermore transport from one place to another could be by the River Thames rather than the roads , which were not always safe and often impassable in some weather conditions . |
| 8 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 9 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 10 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 11 | If everything goes smoothly , this may be by the end of March . |
| 12 | Well he said it would be by the markings . |
| 13 | All the hobbitic jokes are doing , then , is to reflect and by intention deflect the modern inhibition over high styles which we and they share ; if we were not embarrassed by the hobbits , in other words , we would be by the heroes . |
| 14 | Can he give any idea of what the level of occupational pensions will be by the turn of the century ? |
| 15 | If I want to leave a room , I must do so by the limited number of means available to me , which will be by the door or the windows ; if they are locked , I can not leave . |
| 16 | Moreover where the issue really does raise a question of esoteric university ‘ lore ’ the courts are unlikely to override the decision of the visitor , informed as he will be by the university authorities . |
| 17 | Music will be by the Jimmy Hutton Trio . |
| 18 | ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there . |
| 19 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 20 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 21 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |
| 22 | If instead of visiting the church and palazzo you continue across the piazza and into Via Velasca , your view is dominated , as any photograph taken south from the roof of the Duomo will be by the Torre Velasca . |