Example sentences of "[indef pn] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overdoing a successful method of defence , Charity nearly ruined everything by a palpable display of innocent formality . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |
| 5 | Successive home defeats , this one by a single goal , have seen them plummet from second to 10th , and their next two games are away to the leaders , Sheffield United , and at home to second-placed Sunderland . |
| 6 | Growing up in Zimbabwe the group were as likely to hear a record by The Beatles as they were one by a local performer . |
| 7 | It is salutary that in their report on the dangers of long waiting times for outpatient appointments at a urology clinic K German and colleagues say that five of the seven cases of prostatic cancer were detected on rectal examination and one by a raised serum prostate specific antigen concentration . |
| 8 | Among its most notorious performances was one by a Brazilian troupe whose members bit the heads off live chickens in the course of the action . |
| 9 | Of the seventeen pieces in this collection , which survives complete only in the second edition of 1533 , no fewer than eight — only seven in the 1533 version — are by Philippe Verdelot ( d. c. 1540 ) , a Frenchman who lived in Italy from a very early age , two ( three in the second edition ) are by an Italian , Costanzo Festa ( C. 1495–1545 ) , one is by another Festa , Sebastiano , of whom we know nothing , one by a mysterious ‘ Maistre Jan ’ or Ihan who has only recently been identified as ‘ a French-born musician active at the court of Ferrara from 1512 to about 1543 ’ , and the remainder by still more shadowy characters . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd unwittingly bought one by a rival historian and you should have seen the way she turned her nose up at it . |
| 11 | Stupidly , she had hoped that Silas would invite her to sit at his table , but instead she was led to a small one by a girl she later learned to be Stella 's daughter , Jean . |
| 12 | By this time ten of the 207 high-risk subjects had died , seven by suicide , two by accidental causes and one by a natural cause . |
| 13 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 14 | ‘ Lets have an article updating the one by an NCT toddler about what to do with yourself through a week , ’ I said . |
| 15 | We may take , for example , two apparently very different books written by Englishmen serving in India in the 1920s — one by an evident diehard , one by an evident progressive — and see that they meet , in fact , upon this common ground . |
| 16 | We may take , for example , two apparently very different books written by Englishmen serving in India in the 1920s — one by an evident diehard , one by an evident progressive — and see that they meet , in fact , upon this common ground . |
| 17 | Any of your readers who caught Bill West in conversation with Melvyn Bragg and Nigella Lawson on ‘ Start the Week ’ , or who read Norman Stone 's review of his book in the Times , would have to assume there were two competing books bearing the same imprimatur — one by an articulate and well-informed author , the other by an incoherent eccentric . |
| 18 | Candidates identified with fundamentalist Islamic groups won six of the 11 contested seats ; four seats were won by candidates with PLO links and one by an independent . |
| 19 | This one by an excellent flower demonstrator called Ian . |
| 20 | Come to think of it you could call anyone by a name which is not their own and make them sound stupid . |
| 21 | Your whole life is nothing by a mystery , " Patrick raged . |
| 22 | hung on to nothing by a thread |
| 23 | I certainly do not believe that we can win anything by a formal arrangement with the Liberal Democratic Party . |
| 24 | Franco 's immobility in 1942 – 43 , his smiles first to one side , then to the other , were not the sign of an astute politician , but of the conservative strategist , determined not to risk anything by an impulsive action . |