Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] the word " in BNC.
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| 1 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |
| 2 | HWIM and Hearsay-II focus the search by predicting the words on either side of a seed word found bottom-up ; only this subset of the lexicon is matched against the phoneme graph . |
| 3 | They start at the beginning and tell the whole story , pulling no mathematical punches but providing so much historical and biographical material , as well as physical explanations , that a complete mathematical ignoramus could gain much from the work by reading the words and skipping the equations . |
| 4 | Erm but er you 'll notice from my wording er revised wording of the policy , I seek to define the terms of that self containment by using the words , and so the District Council will seek to secure land for . |
| 5 | However when the protagonists of the universalist position got into difficulties with the ethnographic evidence they tended to evade the issue by using the word " family " in some quite different sense ! |
| 6 | Besides begging the whole question by using the word ‘ heterosexual ’ , the tautology of this explanation is striking . |
| 7 | I agree with the county court judge , in that I do not think that Lord Greene had in mind what we have to consider here , namely , the position of a tenant , a person who has been a statutory tenant ( I am not begging the question by using the word ‘ tenant ’ but it is a convenient expression ) between the time when the order for possession is made and the time when it falls to be executed having regard to a suspension granted under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 8 | The referee will indicate the readiness to form the scrummage by using the word ‘ engage ’ . |
| 9 | referring here to the sun as an old relation by using the words ‘ kind , old ’ . |
| 10 | You can elaborate on this sampler idea by putting the words inside another design . |
| 11 | The court will read the words of a contract by understanding the words used in their ordinary meaning , except where that would be absurd in the context . |
| 12 | What is important is the unequivocal , but in my respectful opinion wrong , statement of the law made by Viscount Dilhorne , at p. 632a ( to which I referred at the outset of my speech ) , that Parliament by omitting the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ from section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 ‘ has relieved the prosecution of the burden of establishing that the taking was without the owner 's consent . ’ |
| 13 | A rough but convenient measure of sentence complexity is the average number of words per sentence : that is , we have first to determine the complexity of each sentence by counting the words , and then to derive from this an overall measure of complexity . |
| 14 | It is worth getting this formidable reputation into perspective by quoting the words of Edward O. Wilson , the world 's foremost authority on ants as well as the author of Sociobiology : In answer to the single question I am asked most frequently about ants , I can give the following answer : No , driver ants are not really the tenor of the jungle . |