Example sentences of "by [noun] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This controversial book was widely discussed but whether it was read by artists I leave to further research . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By luck he survived all this and afterwards his Canadian friends decided to adopt me as one of the lads . |
| 5 | Foot by foot she ascended . |
| 6 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 7 | A great number of federal nave ships have congregated in the Kornati National Reserve , and we fear that the area 's unique geomorphology and marine life may be threatened by mines they have left . |
| 8 | By faith they grow in understanding and insight . |
| 9 | ‘ Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ . ’ |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Surrounded by woodland it seems set in a pocket of secluded spaciousness , watched only by wood pigeons and squirrels . |
| 13 | By contrast they tend to exaggerate the unacceptability of proposals from the other person , ‘ a derisory offer ’ , ‘ completely unreasonable ’ , ‘ laughable ’ and so on . |
| 14 | By contrast we have in mind a unit for which , not by which , strategy is formulated . |
| 15 | By contrast it has been argued that lawyers ' characteristic and specific practice is translation into a discourse which they both use and create . |
| 16 | By contrast it costs about $600,000 to keep someone in prison for life if they live for another 40 years . |
| 17 | By contrast he expressed respect for Vorster 's policies . |
| 18 | By contrast I retain pictures of those dull , soulless lessons , the daily lot of so many children throughout the world : |
| 19 | Like the earlier effort by Torcy it left no real legacy . |
| 20 | Day by day , hour by hour she goes deeper into depression until finally she exclaims |
| 21 | She kept tagging me along , and bit by bit she wheedled the story out of me . ’ |
| 22 | Doing it bit by bit I done all Ross ' bedroom yesterday . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | By midweek it had killed 115 Peruvians in six weeks . |
| 26 | The quality of their lives is determined by meanings they have received from others . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In her first defence , Esther Dyson admitted by signs she had borne a child , but had pulled its head off when delivering it herself . |
| 29 | There were several false starts and fresh choices , but by ni-Frith they had three scrapes of a sort . |
| 30 | He was a employed by Dorrisons I think as a recovery bloke , you know |