Example sentences of "[det] [noun] was by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither change was by itself sufficient to lead to the formation of an ozone hole . |
| 2 | He is , of course , exceptional , but his sharp perception of the way in which teachers orient their expectations of black kids and his response to that perception was by no means out of the ordinary . |
| 3 | This level was by no means low enough to cause scurvy as Alan was still eating fruit and vegetables , though less than before . |
| 4 | After Strahler one of the earliest movements in this direction was by E. Yatsu in Rock Control in Geomorphology , which proposed a quantitative approach to the underlying mechanics of processes , and as Yatsu ( 1966 ) remarked : |
| 5 | This chipboard was by now , quite elderly and soft . |
| 6 | This attitude was by no means confined to educated sceptics ; it was probably even more marked among the urban proletariat , who had largely abandoned churchgoing and were alienated from the established Church , which they identified with a repressive economic and social system . |
| 7 | Ebussu'ud Efendi fixed the interval at which this Investiture of students as mulazims , called a might take place , namely once in seven years , though this interval was by no means always maintained in later times . |
| 8 | My own case at this point was by no means typical of the average or a product of the time — some 12 years service , and my five years as an NCO pilot coming to an end . |
| 9 | Although this knowledge was by no means sufficient to put an end to the stammer , it did help to convince him that the problem was capable of being solved . |
| 10 | Some music was by Esther Allan , and some was by musical director Graham ( Mendel ) Whitelaw who played piano in both Tickly Mince and The Pie of Damocles . |
| 11 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 12 | The bulk of this expenditure was by the London County Council , formed in 1888 . |
| 13 | The supremacy of equity was established though in the next eighty years this supremacy was by no means unchallenged . |
| 14 | Another feature was by Clive James . |
| 15 | The common way to set up a school at this time was by means of a chantry . |
| 16 | For the doves , Woodcock pointed out that such behaviour was by no means exclusive to the Pakistanis . |
| 17 | It is , none the less , important to remember that such activity was by no means simply destruction for destruction 's sake . |
| 18 | ‘ That intervention was by the malice of evil men , ’ said Herluin , roused and fiery of eye . |
| 19 | In November of 1954 , Williams began a series of lectures at the Public Library , and while the theme of these lectures was by now a familiar one to his audiences ( education in the West Indies ) , the public debate that ensued between Williams and the Reverend Dom . |
| 20 | The first of these criticisms was by fur the strongest made by solicitors interviewed for the research study by Baldwin and Hill . |
| 21 | One of the ways in which CMEAD hoped to address these criticisms was by encouraging the reform of management development , both in terms of its content and of its delivery , with a view to widening access to effective management education and development . |
| 22 | The opening chapter and most pace-setting of these contributions was by the only Englishman featured in the book , Arnold Toynbee . |
| 23 | One way of entering the teaching profession in those days was by being a Pupil Teacher . |
| 24 | ‘ Most of the work in those days was by ladder and we used a bosun 's chair for the high buildings — something definitely banned today . ’ |
| 25 | Before the guillotine motion , the longest speech in those proceedings was by the then Minister of State . |
| 26 | It was weak in its doctrine of the holy spirit and perhaps heretical in arguing that sanctification was by means of sacraments . |
| 27 | Finally I declared that we had no Chiefs only innumerable Indians ; that meetings and even pow-wows were not found necessary ; that communication was by smoke-signal , both between ourselves of the load-bearers form Cubs to Grandfathers/mothers ; and our pipes of peace the traditional Taylor soup and bread and cheese . |
| 28 | He followed the dive-bomber round in a very tight turn and shot it down into the sea , but found that his own aircraft was by then burning fiercely . |
| 29 | The question is probably too sophisticated : after all , his own father was by no means destitute , and had at least something worth conserving . |
| 30 | The only way we could get any sleep was by drinking about a tumbler of whisky every night . |