Example sentences of "by [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , by about the middle of the morning we feel surprisingly alert — we might even not bother with sleep after all — and we appear to have overcome the effects of a lost night ‘ s sleep . |
| 2 | As a result , by about the year 400 Christmas Day had become a significant date in the Christian Year : 25 December was chosen so as to exorcize the great pagan festival of the solar solstice . |
| 3 | Ideally , the toe should just clear the ground by about the thickness of a 10p piece for most clubs ; a 2p for the short irons . |
| 4 | By about the end of the 18th century they began to be replaced by the brick and pantiles which form the pattern of the present village . |
| 5 | John took up with puppets by about the age of twelve . |
| 6 | The launch of the Linn CD player , an exotic two-box player priced at ten pounds less than £2600 , comes just a decade into the era of CD , and at a time when record player sales are on their uppers , and W H Smith , the UK 's largest purveyor of prerecorded music , is pledged to withdraw LPs from its stores by about the time this issue hits the newsstands . |
| 7 | By about the time when Belli published his Arie , this strophic form which Caccini had clearly distinguished from the solo madrigals in his Nuove musiche was overtaking the madrigal in popularity and quickly surpassed it . |
| 8 | The Queen , the unit 's colonel-in-chief , stood watching a final march past by as the corps band struck up for the last time . |
| 9 | So if you look as to how Kuwait grew by after the oil it gives a good example how we put the use of the oil to the betterment of mankind . |
| 10 | Let it not be spoke by of the system that during the period of as for exercise it was nice cold weather a public warning had been and so far this uses the same apartment every evening at prayer time and there selfish mind work a general publication for boys contain a special clause by authority of the board in which they repeatedly made good , virtuous , protected , obedient as regarded to a the powers of wickedness as an article direct from |
| 11 | He places some more logs from a pile near by onto the fire and pushes an old , blackened kettle into the middle of the newly revived flames . |
| 12 | Yes so and I reckon quite frankly cos he 's living on that lay by up the end and I reckon he was hiding , do a runner or something or he ai n't up to something no good ! |
| 13 | Throw-in by into the penalty area , heads it away , jumps again but too late , blows his whistle does the referee Keith and the applause tells you that they 're happy at , they should be , it 's one goal each . |
| 14 | Even in the capital , life ticks by with the rhythm of the rice-growing cycle . |
| 15 | Accordingly , the guidance given in P P G paragraph three should be followed by including the word normally in the policy requirement and the requirement for the new settlement to be beyond the outer edge of the York greenbelt so as to avoid the greenbelt , with then form part of the locational criteria one . |
| 16 | By including the words , avoiding areas of significant landscape value , you are by implication , directing it at areas which can be improved by for example a structure plan to increase or improve the landscape value of that area . |
| 17 | hits his clearance to the halfway line , controlled immediately by inside the centre circle , he was unmarked , has to careful here , and he is n't careful , it 's won back by , now he 's got to the right , running into the penalty area , could do with an early cross , holds it up , slips it back , knocks it in to the middle now , jumps , does n't make contact , it 's headed away by and good play now between and , gets it back to , 's clearance , onto the head of , good header on too to . |
| 18 | Other diving duck , especially the goosander , were well up in number on this March count to total 47 , including 20 drakes , with two smew , both ‘ red-heads ’ , to be seen close by from the Birch causeway . |
| 19 | It is concerned solely with the fiscal aspects of incorporation which have previously been considered in an article by in the Gazette number 29 . |
| 20 | A butcher hard by in the village , and the parsonage-house within a stone 's throw ’ . |
| 21 | And let us , well that 's right , I mean that 's partly covered by erm , by in the sense that whilst as far as this year 's concerned , erm , it 's too late for that , but then if the government have agreed to look at , look at special service calls again for next year . |
| 22 | So in that sense the resources per student , the funds per student have in fact erm come down by in the region of erm fifteen per cent over the last ten years or so very roughly speaking already , and that 's a very considerable reduction in provision . |
| 23 | I passed me own brother by in the process . |
| 24 | Three , you could arrange payment of the deposit as requested , possibly for a certain period of time and possibly for a smaller amount than demanded , this would no doubt by in the process of the licence . |
| 25 | Calm assessments were hard to come by in the shadow of a tragedy of such proportions . |
| 26 | I , I do hesitate myself because if I walk around normally I have to suffer a lot of abuse by , not by , people by who are walking round , but the people who are passing by in the cars etc . |
| 27 | Replacing s by in the low-pass transfer function creates a band-stop form of response with cut-off pulsatances satisfying when the low-pass cut-off occurs at unit pulsatance . |
| 28 | Extra buses were put on to cope with the increase in numbers ; the school restaurant overflowed and three new cafés opened near by in the Camberwell Road . |
| 29 | ‘ Not much of a rest for them in here , ’ I remarked , as a mortar bomb burst close by in the orchard , causing the barn to shake a load of debris from the rafters , covering everyone below in pigeon and probably hen shit . |
| 30 | You see he used to get over the stick pretty often , if you understand what I mean by over the stick ? |