Example sentences of "he [vb mod] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) If any person who has paid tax charged under an assessment alleges that the assessment was excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return , he may by notice in writing at any time not later than six years after the end of the year of assessment ( or , if the assessment is to corporation tax , the end of the accounting period ) in which the assessment was made , make a claim to the Board for relief . |
| 3 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |
| 4 | But then , as another hazard , this time in the shape of plant machinery on the road , was negotiated , so Fabia saw that it was hardly fair to bombard Ven with questions when he must by far prefer that she keep quiet and leave him to concentrate on his driving . |
| 5 | Further , he might by the same instrument grant a present estate , say for life , to A , followed by an estate for life or in tail to B , and , if he wished , as many further particular estates ( for life or in tail ) to other persons successively as he pleased , ending up , if he thought fit , with an estate in fee simple to some person named . |
| 6 | He did n't seem as elated as he might by the idea . |
| 7 | He could not see Dhani but calculated that he might by now be opposite him in the north transept . |
| 8 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 9 | He says he can capture far more detail on slides than he could by sketching . |
| 10 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 11 | A Japanese visitor to suburbia would be more upset by a straight path than he would by a strategically and discreetly placed converted shed — that nevertheless housed garden tools . |
| 12 | He would by now have left the Bishop , would be crossing the Close to find his car , would know what lay ahead for them both . |
| 13 | He reckoned that he would by then have far outflanked any cordon thrown up by his enemies , and could safely make for a phone . |
| 14 | He will by only 31 come the next World Cup . |
| 15 | Equally , at some point before delivery , the seller will require the scale to rise to 100 per cent , because he will by then have completed the products ready for delivery , and cancellation will no longer relieve him from incurring the costs associated with performing the contract . |
| 16 | After all , unless we can show that we are able to do better with the totality of the sums , and the totality of the business , why should any shareholder believe that we know better how to deal with his money if we are to invest in areas outside our particular expertise , than he can by individual investments ? |
| 17 | If that 's so , then Pooh can get true beliefs about honey just as well by observing it indirectly by observing bees as he can by observing it directly . |
| 18 | ‘ He does n't draw any state benefits but gets any money he can by begging and borrowing and occasionally busking , ’ he said . |