Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , that you should make them sensible by the Mildness of your carriage , and the composure even in your correction of them , that what you do is reasonable in you and useful and necessary for them . |
| 2 | As I undo the hooks , I catch a fingernail and it dangles from my own by a thin string of adhesive . |
| 3 | With people in the field such as Don Quarrie and a Mike McFarlane near the peak of his form , I would have had to better my best by a considerable margin to succeed . |
| 4 | The banks write off the fraud within their accounts but our pricing has to take account of it , so ultimately its borne by the general public . |
| 5 | Pretty , vivacious and also a Roman Catholic , she delighted in Minton 's company , partly because his homosexuality left her untroubled by the passes she received from other men . |
| 6 | There he sat down with the guards keeping himself warm by the fire . |
| 7 | That happened that happens with all staff changes where you need a degree of skill its compounded by the fact that all nine will be changed at the same time and as I said before is a total loss of the skills base . |
| 8 | Problems of co-ordination probably reached their worst by the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | Talking to the Parliamentary Scientific Committee about his new schools in 1987 , the Secretary of State expressed himself unworried by the general shortage of teachers in mathematics and the sciences . |
| 10 | But there is a certain piquancy in Kingfisher now trying to turn the tables on a company from whose clutches its escaped by a whisker only three years ago . |
| 11 | Li Yuan , watching her , found himself spellbound by the song , transfixed by the pain in her face as she sang , and astonished that he had never heard her sing before — that he had never guessed she had these talents . |
| 12 | ‘ Marius wrote a letter to his son last November — this is a copy of it — complaining in humble terms about how he 'd left himself short by the gift and not taken inflation into account , and would Nigel let him have a small income from various shares and properties ? |
| 13 | The Austrians returned in his absence , and were assisted in their reconquest by the Russians and the Italians themselves who were never more happy , it seems , than when they were assisting one despot to overthrow another . |
| 14 | Likewise , less expensive , sparkling wines from farther afield are also being brought into their own by the champagne houses ' hauteur . |
| 15 | The Serbian oborknezovi and bašiknezovi who ran the local administration were left very much on their own by the Turks as long as they maintained order and collected the taxes required of them . |
| 16 | At all centres we complete your logbooks at the end of the holiday , and most beginners are happily sailing on their own by the second week . |
| 17 | Now she caught a glimpse of his face again as he drew the straps down from her shoulders and found her unencumbered by a bra . |
| 18 | The growing plant partly relies on the host tree for nutrients but it also makes its own by the usual photosynthesis . |
| 19 | She poured their tea and sat with a cup of her own by the fire , chatting away as easily as she did every morning . |
| 20 | Glochidia are the larvae ( young stages ) of Swan Mussels , which , when released in their thousands by the adults during breeding , must find a ‘ host ’ fish upon which to settle , or they will die . |
| 21 | Be , I used to bloody give them not-out by the umpire . |
| 22 | I think I told you this by the way , this I want to describe to you now is the same for all of them . |
| 23 | Eston Baths would be one of the centres under threat if Langbaurgh Council finds itself charge-capped by the Government . |
| 24 | The pharaoh had thrown out beliefs held for two thousand years , rejecting them as superstitions , and replaced them all by a single god , whose spirit could not be contained in images , whose love extended to all people , and who lived in the power of the sunlight . |
| 25 | Death had them , had them all by the short and curlies . |
| 26 | Six of these were elected by Port Users paying £4 or more per annum in dock dues , three by the Owners of ships registered in the Port , three by the Edinburgh City Council ( representing both Leith and Edinburgh ) and one each by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce , the Leith Chamber of Commerce and the Edinburgh Merchant Company . |
| 27 | My fingers hurt something awful by the end of day … ’ |
| 28 | But he meant something other by the word : something more than simple agreement . |
| 29 | USL hopes to have something ready by the first quarter of next year . |
| 30 | Accu-clear is a water clarifier which will cause bacteria , algae and loose dirt to clump together in your tank water making them removable by the filter , where they will usually be broken down . |