Example sentences of "by [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A closer correspondence between behavioural and neuropsychological estimates of speech lateralisation is obtained by only considering ear differences that reach a specified level of statistical significance ( Wexler , Halwes and Heninger , 1981 ) but as Satz ( 1977 ) has argued , the probability of mis-classifying a right hander with a dichotic left ear advantage as right brained for speech is of the order of 90 per cent ( see Chapter 5 ) ! |
| 2 | The difference in the bowling attacks then became rather noticeable ; by soon after tea on the third day , West Indies had rattled up 411 for 5 when Lloyd declared , with 50 from Fredericks , 135 from Richards , and Greenidge becoming only the second West Indian after Headley to score a century in each innings against England . |
| 3 | That troubadour who passes by just in time to rescue the girl from a hedgerow scuffle ; the sudden but convenient Dickensian benefactors ; the neat shipwreck on a foreign shore which reunites siblings and lovers . |
| 4 | In stressing this , Engels was clearly strongly influenced not only by Morgan by also by Bachofen whom he praised in this preface to the book . |
| 5 | It is a matter of history that as the 1980s drew to a close , a few extra HSTs to cope with the unprecedented levels of business by now on offer would have been very welcome . |
| 6 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 7 | This is a way of holding an anaesthetized animal ( by now of course not an animal at all but a ‘ preparation ’ which ceases even the pretence of life once the support system is switched off ) gently but firmly so that its brain can be exposed and an electrode lowered into it , according to known coordinates . |
| 8 | I mean suddenly we had the example of a women 's support group from the miner 's strike th that we had the idea you know fr from that erm and Yona really put it in a nutshell when she said I think er er you know behind closed doors the women worrying about what was gon na happen next you know they felt very frustrated and in a way it was a way to channel o our energies away i i i it was seen as that really in the beginning you know as a a sort of a more as a way of getting rid of the well y you know the sort of desperation er the impotence one felt of not being able to do anything in this situation and it 's er and by now of course we 've all become as a group very close er you know we 're we 're more like a big family now really an sort of er a lot of the women have never really sort of regularly been to meetings an th the commitment there is very strong really that we all turn up to our Tuesday meetings sort of . |
| 9 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 10 | The child ( 14 ) : Ishmael was by now in fact about 16 . |
| 11 | Mota would have won that race by well over half-an-hour . |
| 12 | On 4 November the management , by then under pressure ( for reasons unconnected with APEX or ACAS ) , agreed that ACAS should ballot the workers on whether they wanted union recognition . |
| 13 | Norman , however , insists that this is a fabrication — Henrietta was by then with child by him , and at that date there was no question of a man leaving a woman whom he had made pregnant . |
| 14 | Mark Beeney could become Irish by then of course ; - ) and might go . |
| 15 | Erm , and it shows a very unorganised person , the second one is called Salvation , by then of course the person is very much better organised as a team . |
| 16 | By then of course it is usually too late to sell . |
| 17 | The resource remained largely undeveloped until the late 1980s , when Ross and Cromarty District Council , by then in control of the Royal Burgh of Tain 's Common Good Fund , took over its management . |
| 18 | Willis could only pray that the writers of such letters , stranded in ports which the war had passed by almost without notice , would never return , to be betrayed by so much change . |
| 19 | Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is . |