Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] by his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defendant 's admission , defence or counterclaim must be signed by him if acting in person , or else by his solicitor in the solicitor 's own or firm 's name . |
| 2 | They were there by his invitation and only by his invitation . |
| 3 | That maxim , one could say , is the core of The Lord of the Rings , and it is reinforced from the start by all that Gandalf says about the way Ring-bearers fade , regardless of all their ‘ strength ’ or ‘ good purpose ’ , and further by his violent refusal to take the Ring himself : His renunciation makes sense in an age which has seen many pigs become farmers ; no reviewer has ever balked at this basic opening move of Tolkien 's . |
| 4 | By the early 17th century this was owned , firstly by Thomas Clutterbuck , and later by his son , Richard . |
| 5 | This was opposed by new Chief of Staff Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev on Feb. 12 , 1989 , and later by his predecessor Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev , but remained under active discussion . |
| 6 | But love was blind , so they said , and obviously Fen was blinded again by his emotions — and probably by his physical desires too . |
| 7 | The metabolism controversy may not have been aided by the somewhat liberal use of generic terms by Bakker and even by his critics , in popular books and articles . |
| 8 | And for once he knew he was fully appreciated by his Buttermere neighbours and even by his wife . |
| 9 | New editions of Applied Pharmacology were prepared at regular intervals , first by Clark himself and then by his successors at University College London . |
| 10 | The Republic of Haiti , which achieved independence from France in 1804 , was ruled between 1957 and 1971 by the President for Life , François Duvalier , and then by his son , Jean-Claude , who fled abroad in 1986 after a period of prolonged popular unrest . |
| 11 | It had to be learnt time and again by his descendants throughout the succeeding twenty centuries . |
| 12 | that the plaintiff 's illness was caused not by the alleged defects in the product but entirely by his own decision to sniff the glue . |
| 13 | Rangers manager Gerry Francis , disappointed that his side failed to capitalise on their outstanding first half display conceded : ‘ Barnes was the difference , not just by the way he played , but more by his sheer presence . ’ |
| 14 | This is evidenced not only by his insistence on self-discipline but also by his insistence on the realization of Truth through the service of others , and by means of ahi sā . |
| 15 | Staff and pupils at Chosen Hill have been impressed not just by Chris 's imagination and creativity but also by his hard work . |
| 16 | But even by his standards , Catholic Christianity is one of the ‘ important social or political forces which are part of world history ’ . |