Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] is by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was much sense in the American wish to see the Japanese economy functioning efficiently again , ‘ But in Canberra , Nanking , and Manila their conversion to innocence requires to be demonstrated more convincingly than it is by the optimistic hand-outs from General MacArthur 's headquarters . ’ |
| 2 | He is refreshingly determined not to be pushed around by these men any more than he is by the whites . |
| 3 | The religious establishment of his day once asked him , ‘ By what authority do you cast out demons ? ’ and he replied , ‘ If it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons , then the Kingdom of God has come upon you . ’ |
| 4 | It 's interesting , even if it is by the old man . ’ |
| 5 | Here the spectator is much more ambiguously positioned , as he/she is by the problematization of representation and reality in Cronenberg 's Videodrome . |
| 6 | The whole resort is very picturesque , surrounded as it is by the Kitzbuhler alps . |
| 7 | Such a patient is , by definition , going to die sooner rather than later , and the regimen of care adopted , overshadowed as it is by the mass of available technology , calls for distinct and very sensitive regulation . |
| 8 | Here the rhetoric is obvious , backed up as it is by the personification of instinctive animal behaviour into that of a desperate mother driven to crime . |
| 9 | This could be accomplished as well by a civil injunction freezing the moneys potentially subject to a civil judgment as it is by the elaborate statutory forfeiture mechanism . |
| 10 | This is not so much dangerous ( as it is in a white water kayak ) but , exaggerated as it is by the length of the sea kayak , just plain horrible to push through the water . |
| 11 | We agreed that Deborah would cover the administrative side of the discussion , the need to raise funds for rehabilitation , for residential care and for support for the carers ( whose life is as devastated by the loss of the person they previously knew as it is by the burden of twenty-four-hour dependency . ) |