Example sentences of "be by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — but Fiona wo n't be by the bed : |
| 2 | Both subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) provide that citation is to be by the board . |
| 3 | Can he give any idea of what the level of occupational pensions will be by the turn of the century ? |
| 4 | Moreover where the issue really does raise a question of esoteric university ‘ lore ’ the courts are unlikely to override the decision of the visitor , informed as he will be by the university authorities . |
| 5 | If trade unions are to have any success in organising contract computer staff it might be by the provision of non-traditional membership services . |
| 6 | ‘ Who knows how much that total could be by the year 2000 . ’ |
| 7 | If I want to leave a room , I must do so by the limited number of means available to me , which will be by the door or the windows ; if they are locked , I can not leave . |
| 8 | And hammered on the door so one of the teache and it was the class where I was too happened to be by the door there . |
| 9 | I should like to commend to Members the text of the Inaugural meeting of the BIE in London in 1927 much of which is as relevant today as it was then and it will only be by the commitment of you the members that the Institute will improve and ultimately progress . |
| 10 | So the amount available to her to spend will fall short of what it should be by the amount of that tax . |
| 11 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 12 | After the sale , payment is guaranteed within seven days of the cattle leaving the farm which has to be by the Tueday following at the latest . |
| 13 | I also have an automatic washing machine but it has to be by the sink for the water to be pumped out and it has no wheels . |
| 14 | In many cases the clause provides that the appointment is to be by the president ( for the time being ) of the body concerned . |
| 15 | If everything goes smoothly , this may be by the end of March . |
| 16 | Her highest ambition was to be by the end of the day simply acceptable , to have done no rushing or crashing , committed no vehemence . |
| 17 | I do n't know yet , I should think it 'll be by the end of the month |
| 18 | The first attempt to retrieve the lost ferret must be by the use of a line ferret fitted with a transmitting device . |
| 19 | In Walsall Wood erm as I say , we used to have er two big bags full on a Fri Friday and then in the week we could go up but you 've got your bread but , you know , yo the men would be , I can just picture them with their little , all this pretty coloured paper would all be in little piles and when there were no customers , they would be wrapping the rice , the raisins , the currants , all in these pretty papers you see and they knew , I mean you 'd ask them for currants and they never sort of knew , I did n't quite understand how they could pick by , it 'd be by the paper you see . |
| 20 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 21 | ‘ Not yet , ’ put in the thin man , ‘ but they will be by the time we 're back there . |
| 22 | The prices , on the whole , are about right , and certainly will be by the time the discounts get their hands on them . |
| 23 | Or what it will be by the time I 've finished this job . |
| 24 | Queen 's student Donnelly excelled at Lurgan and won his first Northern Ireland Cross Country title a few weeks ago , but is still not fully fit , although he could be by the time of the Belfast race . |
| 25 | Well they said they will , they think will be by the time they 've paid up cos they had n't really paid up for , for last years yet ! |
| 26 | ‘ No ! ’ he said in a hoarse scream ; and even then he was still able to feel that it must be by the grace of God that what felt like the terror of an animal in extremity should produce a cry of respectable human rage . |
| 27 | It was a good question , and suggested strongly that the Argyll interest was less powerful than it was believed to be by the community at large . |