Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the bees found the food by smell they would go to the nearest dish ; but , in fact they went to the original dish which the first bee had been to . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if a question is asked exactly as it appears here and you give an answer which has clearly been prepared in advance and learned off by heart you will not be very convincing . |
| 3 | By contrast one can normally expect a mini to have good on-line facilities . |
| 4 | By contrast you will appear all the more reasonable . |
| 5 | By rail you could alight at the tiny wooden platform that has been used by servicemen for decades . |
| 6 | B-R has told Margaret Wilkinson that if she wants to go by rail she 'll have to get a narrower wheelchair . |
| 7 | Should any local authority provide a service not specifically permitted by Parliament it would be acting illegally , or ultra vires ( see Chapter 15 ) . |
| 8 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 9 | By Easter we should sort someth |
| 10 | In no time at all , I was saying ‘ Around 5ft 10in ’ and , if I do n't put a halt to it , by Easter I 'll be topping 6ft and playing basketball . |
| 11 | However if the 18 year old could pick up languages merely by exposure they would be considered a real prodigy . |
| 12 | Even by daylight we could not tell who he was until Cadfael turned up the whole side of his face to the light . |
| 13 | Yet with any luck we shall have a dozen bold new hens to lay eggs for us next year - and even if only half of them manage to emulate their mothers in the matter of bringing up families , by mid-summer we shall be positively over-run . |
| 14 | By car you can explore an unspoilt region of stunning mountain scenery , fresh orchards and attractive little villages where everyday life has hardly changed in years and still revolves around the old church square . |
| 15 | 10 minutes by car you can be on Woolacombe 's fabulous 3 mile beach . |
| 16 | 10 minutes by car you can be in Woolacombe 's fabulous 3 mile beach ( See top of opposite page , ) or Exmoor , Barnstaple , Lynton , and Lynmouth , Clovelly , Dartmoor and Cornwall are easy half day trips . |
| 17 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 18 | And I think they 're actually picking out a particular area for a report is is not necessarily good practice. , erm I think we can identify er those areas piece by piece we will go through them , they can be brought forward to a variety of areas . |
| 19 | With a bit more luck , train services willing , she could be in and out of Mariánské Láznë today , and , even if she had to fit in a visit to that garage near Františkovy Láznë , by nightfall she could be across the Czechoslovakian border and on her way home to England . |
| 20 | He appeared to give carte blanche to investors , predicting that by spring there would be significant business between Britain and Poland . |
| 21 | There were three filling stations side by side which could only be used with French credit cards , ’ said Mr Brown , a 48-year-old college lecturer , of Craven Vale . |
| 22 | So whether you have a number of blanks or a number of punched holes side by side you 'll get floats . |
| 23 | Fullagar J. , at p. 124 , considered that the payments ‘ were made in order to avoid a very real risk that a refusal to pay would be followed by action which could be ruinous to the plaintiffs . ’ |
| 24 | cruel by religion I 'd indulge |
| 25 | I think so , there 's got to be one person I mean I thought about this long and hard and there 's just no way , it can not be done by committee it would not work cos then |
| 26 | In its apparent exemplification of the replacement of religion by poetry it would fit the demands of many liberal intellectuals after the religious crisis of the 1830s . |
| 27 | In the main the structure is permissive ; with some exceptions , setting limits on what can be done rather than laying down by law what must be done . |
| 28 | Now by law they must provide something like this booklet . |
| 29 | By law I can search your cart if I want . |
| 30 | Mr Brownlow suggested that half the remaining money from the will should be given to Monks and the other half to Oliver , although by law it should all have gone to Oliver alone . |