Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says oh she says erm with erm , covering up , covering up that , up the Coke , er , I mean I 've done Coke by years and years and years , I say |
| 2 | We 've gone town by town throughout the county showing what 's needed and how it could be doneHaving established how to do it , it now has to be done , and that means support , especially from the county council . |
| 3 | Perhaps the other point I can make is to go back to the question of why women tutors and people in the university generally have emphasised harassment of students by academic staff more than they 've emphasised harassment by students of one another , and I think it 's not that it was thought that students did n't commonly make each other uncomfortable , but as an issue of principle in terms of whether it 's appropriate for university or college authorities to intervene in what many people regard as students ' private lives . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman has no evidence for asserting that standards have dropped month by month . |
| 5 | In 1979 , they pointed out that what we have called suburbanization by addition had increased this by nine times since 1901 , whereas population had increased by only 25% . |
| 6 | improved value for money should be obtained by cutting down on unnecessary procedures , ( e.g. committals , remand hearings ) , strengthening controls on the progress of legally aided proceeding , changing listing practices , and restricting legal aid to solicitors who have demonstrated competence by membership of an appropriate panel ; |
| 7 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 8 | In Somalia , Sudan , Ethiopia and many other poverty-stricken countries , the brutal violence of local warlords combined with the effects of drought , have brought death by starvation to hundreds of thousands . |
| 9 | We have defined inductance by eqn ( 4.33 ) without discussing its effect upon the current-voltage relationship . |
| 10 | But she and the charity have stood side by side and today she was welcomed like an old friend in Milton Keynes . |
| 11 | Although he was not the very first , he has come to be regarded as the pioneer , bush-whacking anthropologist , the originator of the doctrine that until you have lived cheek by jowl with an exotic tribe and spoken their language fluently you can not claim full professional status . |
| 12 | Very simple and very complex organisms have lived side by side for a long time and both have evolved together . |