Example sentences of "be by [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garner and Croft were by now both injured , but West Indies suddenly found themselves up against some determination . |
| 2 | The largest category of legislative Acts is by far that of regulations , of which some 6,471 were in force at 1 January 1992 . |
| 3 | They concede that while the fall in the pound will push up inflation , the critical point is by how much . |
| 4 | The question is by how much . |
| 5 | The question is by how much . |
| 6 | It was by just such dazzling manoeuvres that the Emperor and held off the Russian , Prussian and Austrian armies in the spring of 1814 . |
| 7 | The years 1182–3 were to be the maker-break crisis of Richard 's rule in Aquitaine , faced as he was by so many enemies . |
| 8 | To this unheroic proposal Charles retorted passionately that ‘ rather than go back , I would wish to be dead and buried 20 feet underground ’ , but Murray 's reputation was by now such , and his arguments so well mustered , that he won over his colleagues . |
| 9 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 10 | I returned to his caravan the following afternoon after school bearing my load , which was by then little more than a dusty stain on the inside of a beaker . |