Example sentences of "go by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially as my promotion could go by the board . ’ |
| 2 | If you want a nice long walk you can go by the iron bridge and through Ballochbuie forest … ‘ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Let's go by the book . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | It is a picture which belongs as much to the world of Beatrix Potter ( Major Connolly would no doubt have appreciated the coincidental pun ) as to that of the military gentleman from Bath , making it doubly an insult that the mass-produced pastes and sandwich spreads of the factories should go by the honourable names of potted meat , potted ham , tongue , lobster , salmon , shrimp and the rest . |
| 7 | ‘ It would n't go by the square foot ? ’ |
| 8 | In general , wherever the officer believes a case to be one which may come to his supervisor 's knowledge , it is appropriate to err on the side of caution , to ‘ go by the book ’ and protect himself from criticism . |
| 9 | In giving orders to subordinates , an official will go by the rule book and will blame someone else for the existence of the rules where his decision appears inappropriate . |
| 10 | I mean I payed it obviously because you If you live you live in er you live in the land you 've got to pl go by the law . |
| 11 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 12 | And they they even had a gun in with them and if they did n't go by the third shot They fired in the air you see . |
| 13 | Mm can go by the leaves , I thought the leaves look like it too . |
| 14 | anyhow I 'll go by the window , I 'll go by the window |
| 15 | anyhow I 'll go by the window , I 'll go by the window |
| 16 | What particularly worried me about the whole issue of opting out was that some of the services that the Local Education Authority provide are minority services , and I feared they would go by the board . |
| 17 | Well , considering the security here in Great Britain , I hope that they have taken a precaution for that , but then we 're dealing with a person who does not go by the book . |