Example sentences of "it be by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the technological backwardness means that , and the over population , means that the soil is , is losing its richness and there 's absolutely no way of restoring it artificially by ploughing deeply and turning up er new soil or by re-enriching it as it were by the use of artificial or natural fertilizers . |
| 2 | Yes , it 's alright , it 's by the door . |
| 3 | It 's by the Beatles . |
| 4 | It 's by the cricket ground — do you know it ? ’ |
| 5 | And it 's by the library is n't it ? |
| 6 | It 's by the time I could get my gloves on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At first it was attributed to an unknown painter of the Giotto school , but more recent academic opinion is hardening to the opinion that it is by the master himself . |
| 9 | Yeah , I think it is by the looks of things . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | And it is by the quality of these records that he brings back that he will ultimately be judged . |
| 13 | It is by the appearance of hands by which Pip recognises Molly as being Estella 's mother and Molly 's strong deeply scarred hands , the result of a life of hardship and toil . |
| 14 | 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 . ) |
| 15 | The poem St Erkenwald is a variant of that tale ; some people have argued it is by the author of Sir Gawain and Pearl . |
| 16 | The whole resort is very picturesque , surrounded as it is by the Kitzbuhler alps . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was , however , of great importance that it was said as clearly as it was by the Council . |
| 19 | The third and last time she was wakened that night , it was by the voice of her husband saying , ‘ What it is to have a clear conscience . |
| 20 | The parents were the only variable and even they did n't vary much ; their reactions followed a predictable pattern as well understood by the police as it was by the kidnappers . |
| 21 | But then , yesterday had been a funny old day , clouded as it was by the memory of Steve Blower 's traumatic and tragic death and the image of Jack comforting his parents . |
| 22 | That was amply demonstrated by the speech of the hon. Member for Stockton , South , as it was by the chairman of the Conservative party who produced a document in July entitled ’ Regional Red Tape ’ . |
| 23 | It was by the door . |
| 24 | They seldom dated their letters and when they did it was by the year of the king 's reign . |
| 25 | The Prophet 's gaze switched to it and his eyes widened as he saw what it was by the light of the moon . |
| 26 | On the face of it , the debilitated condition in which Ivan left the Crown , compounded as it was by the extinction of the Rurik line on the death of his son Fyodor in 1598 , much enhanced the political stature of the Church . |
| 27 | It was by the manager 's secretary who is renowned for her typing speeds . |
| 28 | Its voluntaristic side , influenced as it was by the ideas of G. H. Mead , had more affinity with the analyses of the acquisition of motives , techniques , and so on , that were to characterise the ‘ symbolic interactionist revolution ’ of the 1960s . |
| 29 | That purpose might be challenged , as it was by the neo-avant-garde of the early 1960s ( cf. |
| 30 | It is here that we shall find the explanation for the lively inconsistency of his thinking , masked though it was by the illusion of sweet reason he seemed able to create at will . |