Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temporary staff suffer inordinately from a lack of experience within the organization — experience of its people systems , structure , strategies , etc. ( by experience we mean knowledge , skills and practice , and situational familiarity ) . |
| 2 | By luck we have one original bronze which can be dated to the earliest classical phase , immediately after the Persian defeat , and one pair of marble copies after bronze originals of the same time . |
| 3 | By luck he survived all this and afterwards his Canadian friends decided to adopt me as one of the lads . |
| 4 | Foot by foot she ascended . |
| 5 | By faith they grow in understanding and insight . |
| 6 | ‘ Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 7 | At the cross , at the cross where I first saw the light , and the burden of my heart rolled away , it was there by faith I receive my sight and now I am happy all the day ! |
| 8 | To that of justification by faith he added the corollary that good works were a necessary expression of thanksgiving on the part of a Christian for unmerited justification by a merciful God . |
| 9 | Surrounded by woodland it seems set in a pocket of secluded spaciousness , watched only by wood pigeons and squirrels . |
| 10 | By contrast they tend to exaggerate the unacceptability of proposals from the other person , ‘ a derisory offer ’ , ‘ completely unreasonable ’ , ‘ laughable ’ and so on . |
| 11 | By contrast we have in mind a unit for which , not by which , strategy is formulated . |
| 12 | By contrast it has been argued that lawyers ' characteristic and specific practice is translation into a discourse which they both use and create . |
| 13 | By contrast it costs about $600,000 to keep someone in prison for life if they live for another 40 years . |
| 14 | By contrast he expressed respect for Vorster 's policies . |
| 15 | By contrast I retain pictures of those dull , soulless lessons , the daily lot of so many children throughout the world : |
| 16 | Like the earlier effort by Torcy it left no real legacy . |
| 17 | Day by day , hour by hour she goes deeper into depression until finally she exclaims |
| 18 | She kept tagging me along , and bit by bit she wheedled the story out of me . ’ |
| 19 | Doing it bit by bit I done all Ross ' bedroom yesterday . |
| 20 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 21 | Rolling Stone was originally a reaction to the underground newspaper look and bit by bit it got art direction and , you know , good illustration , good photography , for this and all that , and then I got in there and pushed the type stuff . |
| 22 | By midweek it had killed 115 Peruvians in six weeks . |
| 23 | Returning to the perspective of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ discussed earlier , we can call into question the extent to which going abroad can legitimately be viewed as a student strategy for maximizing opportunities in China when by necessity it implied turning away from the ‘ motherland ’ in favour of foreign countries . |
| 24 | ‘ By coincidence I missed out on Amsterdam for the same reason . |
| 25 | ‘ And by coincidence I have found it ? |
| 26 | By coverage they meant the fact that thirty five million Americans are not covered by health insurance . |
| 27 | And by gum she 's got her hands full there you know . |
| 28 | Because I mind one night , just a few weeks before he left t'mill for good — and by gum he looked sick then , more like a shadow than the man he was before the war — well , we were all out wi ’ a lad as was getting married in a rush , you know . |
| 29 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 30 | And it 's all done by kindness you know . |