Example sentences of "[adv] go by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get the sledge ready you anchor it firmly ; this is vital because once you have attached your first dog he will start to tow and the whole shooting match will be long gone by the time you get back with your second dog . |
| 2 | My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’ |
| 3 | She had hoped she 'd be long gone by the time he had finished his swim , but already he was nearly back at shore , and the filmy dress was sticking awkwardly to her still damp skin . |
| 4 | Right , but presumably if that , that work 's not just going by the board that 's , that 's right |
| 5 | Worse , Intel is likely to cut the price of its Pentium chip during the next two years — perhaps by one-third or more going by the firm 's past behaviour . |
| 6 | Thus , if there is to be a section about ‘ microtext history ’ and another section about ‘ macrotext history ’ , they can not both go by the name ‘ history ’ . |
| 7 | And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse , the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board . |
| 8 | Well I 'll be practically gone by the time you get back , I mean |
| 9 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 10 | Amstral has recently been through a combination of management buyouts and takeovers , including the acquisition of Crab Advanced Technologies ' sales and marketing division , and now goes by the name of ABC Workstation Solutions Ltd . |
| 11 | But direct observation does give you the colours and you do become more accurate , even though sunlight and shadows move so fast during the time it takes to paint such a scene that the particular arrangement that caught your eye in the first place has long since gone by the time the picture is finished ! |
| 12 | Meanwhile , there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life . |
| 13 | But as the work progressed , one thing at least went by the board , and that was his original Platonic outlook . |
| 14 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 15 | They had such unwieldy purposes — restoring relations with Iran , saving the hemisphere from Communism — that technical details , such as finding aircraft that could fly , sometimes went by the board . |
| 16 | No that 's that 's completely gone by the by yeah , yeah . |