Example sentences of "go by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigations of this kind reveal something of the structure of poverty by indicating those who were kept going by the poor rate , the only eighteenth-century tax which was redistributive . |
| 2 | Dougal was chasing a forlorn hope ; and he was n't even sure that he was going by the best route . |
| 3 | The Doctor could n't quite make out what it was that had moved , but going by the gelid fluidity of the apparent movement , he did n't really want to . |
| 4 | And it then made possible going by the shortest route . |
| 5 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 6 | As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise . |
| 7 | As the weeks had gone by the other girl had dropped more and more blatant hints about the fact that she was having an affair with her employer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It would n't go by the square foot ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was n't until a week later that I was able to ring John Reeves , vicar of St Luke 's , Cranham , who later said that he was intrigued from the word go by the strange activities we were involved with when he first contacted us . |
| 12 | before so I lent them , so he 's gone in I go by the same time as him we both got ta sign them |
| 13 | Contracts go by the square inch . ’ |
| 14 | They go by the slowest clock . |
| 15 | Yeah , but I suppose they have to go by the general rule |
| 16 | So pray write by the very first and send to our friend Alex Colden , postmaster at New York , to go by the first mail from thence which sails every month . |
| 17 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 18 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 19 | If the blasting of Bristol City is anything to go by the United fans are in for a high old time … a dazzling display from Chris Allen … two penalties from Jimmy Magilton … and first for Alex Dyer was just the sort of start that manager 's dream about … |
| 20 | … he goes by the carved shafts at cross-roads , pours oil on them from his flask , falls on his knees , makes an obeisance , and only then moves on . |