Example sentences of "[vb -s] [indef pn] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 2 | With relegation fast becoming a foregone conclusion , Hankin has nothing to lose by giving teenagers an outing . |
| 3 | The inroad of foreign capital always means for it some loss of independence , and it has nothing to gain by agreement among competing Empires … |
| 4 | I am happy to repeat the Government 's view that openness is a friend of the nuclear industry and everyone has everything to gain by open discussion and understanding of the complex issues involved . |
| 5 | ‘ Has anything come by carrier pigeon , then ? ’ |
| 6 | The zoo is now considering a number of proposals which includes one submitted by the staff and another by New Zoo Developments Ltd. along with an in-house plan which the Society has been developing for some time . |
| 7 | Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs . |
| 8 | If not , and he 's picking the frog out of everyone who has or is still playing for the team , surely Strachan 's contribution far outweighs anything done by the Frog . |
| 9 | If one is a tyrant and a bully , attempting to assert one 's authority , to dominate people , to humble those in one 's power , what does one accomplish by labelling a poor prophet a king ? |
| 10 | The fact that the passive brings about alterations of word order gives it a special function in writing , because it provides one means by which a writer can link sentences smoothly together and achieve the desired emphasis . |
| 11 | They obtain an expression for the stress as a function of time In this form , and at long-term equilibrium the material resembles one considered by Signiorini ( 1955 ) , whereas if A/2 + B = 0 it is of Mooney form and if A = B = 0 it is Rivlin 's neo-Hookean material . |