Example sentences of "[verb] something by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I said ‘ I want something by next Thursday ’ and , of course , they were n't there or the papers were n't done . |
| 2 | If you want to increase something by forty five percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 3 | So , if you want to increase something by forty five percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 4 | If you want to increase something by seven percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 5 | He should know something by close of play today . |
| 6 | One does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the word ‘ here ’ meaningfully . |
| 7 | Similarly , he seems to be suggesting , one does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the expression ‘ in me ’ meaningfully . |
| 8 | The present government has done something by designating 40 per cent of the territory as country parkland where plants and animals are supposed to be protected . |
| 9 | I think that N Y T E C would have said something by now if none , you know if there was a disproportionate |
| 10 | I have n't said something by the way . |
| 11 | This is the absence of any higher intention , or evidence for such , that the receiver should believe something by recognising this very intention . |
| 12 | How do you multiply something by itself a erm a minus number of times . |
| 13 | We are proposing , along with Cotte , that let evokes much more than merely the speech act of giving permission : it signifies giving an event access to existence , permitting something by not intervening to obstruct its being accomplished . |
| 14 | First he asked Germaine to play something by Ravel for him , presumably to glean an impression of her personality . |
| 15 | Nonetheless , might neurobiologists in general , and memory researchers in particular , not gain something by concentrating on a limited number of model systems that everyone could agree on ? |
| 16 | I just thought I would have heard something by now . |
| 17 | I thought you 'd of heard something by now . |
| 18 | It is a strange thing continuing to do something by choice which has taken the lives of your close friends … |
| 19 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 20 | In the ordinary case , the breach of a promise to do something by a certain time can for practical purposes be remedied by the thing being done , even out of time … |
| 21 | But we might be able to do something by internal reshuffling at the clinic . |
| 22 | She was shredding something by holding the tip of the blade and moving the handle of the knife around in an arc , her head on one side . |
| 23 | Despite some losses in the final debacle in France , he was able to salvage something by selling lands unprofitably before the end ( 87 ) .3 |
| 24 | But some people try to trick children into doing something by giving them sweets or money . |
| 25 | It would also be a good idea to read something by the French dramatist , Molière , their great contemporary , who satirises the hypocrisies of cultivated society ; I recommend Tartuffe about a religious imposter and La Malade Imaginaire , a satire on the medical profession . |
| 26 | You can conceal something by putting it as one item of a considerable list , in the above instance the list of brown things . |
| 27 | One can not say , for example , that Oftel decided something by a narrow vote' or that personnel changes in an individual agency will change the approach . ’ |
| 28 | There are too many people nowadays who think they are achieving something by changing the scenery as often as possible : hitchhiking through Europe , peddling across Asia , rowing across the Atlantic and so forth . |
| 29 | Sometimes when talking he would forget to call something by its name , and describe it instead , remembering what he had read in one of his books . |
| 30 | Bertha Cohen spoke slowly , as if recounting something by rote , her hands intent on the job of scooping out each piece of fish without breaking the enclosing skin . |