Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [noun sg] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anyone else lives there they 'll know what I mean ) My intense dislike for them grows day by day , just like my overdraught . |
| 2 | And in this state she gallops night by night |
| 3 | So i i it sits side by side with the erm items that we 'd decided are important for us to achieve our visions . |
| 4 | It is the sentence , and nothing else , which has sense , and it has sense by virtue of there being an accepted common practice with sentences like it , and others . |
| 5 | Insofar as it has force by virtue of the potential penalty in expenses , it follows that the earlier in the action the Tender is lodged , the greater the effect which it may have . |
| 6 | He describes persecution by government agents during the reign of James II . |
| 7 | In 1365 Edward III granted John of Appleby an annuity of 20 marks for good service ‘ and in recompense , of the loss which he sustains year by year by the King 's deer in respect of his land in Bernwood Forest , then lying uncultivated on account of the said deer ’ . |
| 8 | Paradox 4.0 adds a Windows-like user interface to the MS-DOS relational database , power and performance gains , enhanced network performance and expanded Paradox Application Language ; it includes Query By Example for fast interactive database querying and can also store and retrieve Binary Large Objects in memo fields . |
| 9 | Note that a person is guilty under s.15 if he obtains ownership but does not obtain possession or control ; and if the accused is in possession or control , he is guilty if he obtains ownership by deception . |
| 10 | James is careful in making coreferential links between one sentence and another , as he unravels step by step the complications of the situation . |
| 11 | But he seems downbeat by nature and I 'm not sure he has the resilience to rally a losing club . |
| 12 | The difficulty with natural selection which Taylor raises repeatedly is that it explains evolution by chance . |
| 13 | I mean , there are many , many cases of injustice around the world and , the West , the British government , ca n't be responsible for all of them , but there 's , there 's one particular case of Iraq , where we 've already gone to war , to , in the cause of democracy and freedom , and I do n't believe that when Saddam offends again as he does day by day , we can turn a blind eye . |
| 14 | Her nursing activity would be right on our first less rigoristic formulation of the Benthamite view , for it does good by way of lessening pain and promoting pleasure and either does no harm at all , or none that is significant . |
| 15 | Their decision was that a person is guilty of theft when he acquires ownership by deception . |
| 16 | Though he hath fall'n by prompture of the blood , |