Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first .
2 A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first .
3 A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first .
4 A solicitor is required by law always to put the interests of his or her client first .
5 ( 63 ) the student selected was fortunate ( 64 ) that the student was selected was fortunate Both ( 63 ) and ( 64 ) have as their basic intensional pattern ( discounting minor dependent items like definiteness and number ) an E extended by assignment to make up their subject , with the whole of this then extended by assignment again to give the full sentence .
6 Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ?
7 The alternative to these difficulties is to use the opportunities created by enlargement fundamentally to alter the structures of the EEC .
8 Hilton recognises that while it is apparently unreasonable for man governed by reason utterly to devalue himself and attribute any good things which he does to Christ it is nevertheless the route to true identity , away from the temporal accidents which attract the self , to its essential which is discovered in Christ himself .
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