Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] that by " in BNC.
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| 1 | To encourage speculators Chéron published a brochure , assuring his would-be customers that by collecting paintings of promising young artists and selling them ten or fifteen years later , they could realize an increase of five to ten times on the purchase price . |
| 2 | In countries like Brazil , the original financing had come so heavily from foreign loans that by the mid-1980s , SOE debt was over half of the total foreign commercial debt . |
| 3 | ICL has to say , if asked , that the way out of their present crisis is to have started 10 years ago — 10 years that by steady attrition rather than any headline-grabbing lay-offs have seen ICL 's workforce decline to 26,000 — from 31,000 only four years ago . |
| 4 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 5 | Rapidly the realisation spread among pre-literate peoples that by harvesting the fruits of the earth and by adding water to wild-growing , or naturally produced , sugar-containing raw materials — like grapes , fruits , berries or honey — and by leaving the sweet mishmash exposed in the warm air ( at the mercy of airborne yeasts ) , a highly prized stimulating beverage would reward the effort . |
| 6 | I remember a morning like that in Derbyshire … a morning with so much Day-Glo orange cardboard sprouting on poles from so many fields that by 11am I was near suicide — a mood that ended with the discovery that the posters were for a popular brand of fertiliser . |
| 7 | His most effective early church planter laid down the great missionary principle of becoming all things to all men that by all means he might win some . |
| 8 | So guide the United Nations that by word and deed it may promote your glory and establish peace and goodwill among the peoples of the world . |
| 9 | A report from consultancy Ovum Ltd forecasts that by the end of the decade nearly a third of telecommunications companies ' revenues will come from intelligent network services . |
| 10 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |
| 11 | In the United States there have been a number of major studies of the redistributive impact of the government budget , including in recent years that by Musgrave and associates ( 1974 ) and Who Bears the Tax Burden ? by Pechman and Okner ( 1974 ) . ’ |
| 12 | There are certain treaties that by their nature can not be assigned , for example extradition treaties , enforcement of judgment treaties , and mutual defence treaties . |
| 13 | The case has been made that neutralisation is potentially attractive only to relatively minor states that by virtue of their strategic position or symbolic political value have become or threaten to become the focal points of contests for control or dominant influence between principal regional or global rivals . |
| 14 | The Court adjourned the matter until Thursday , ‘ but it is hoped by both parties that by then the current uncertainty and speculation concerning the future of Manchester will have been resolved ’ . |
| 15 | The rise of the electricity industry created a new market for his engines , which proved so well suited to driving dynamos that by the time of his death over half the country 's electrical power was generated by them . |