Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [verb] [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The masher dodged round Neil , lifted his fists , and said in what Neil could tell was by no means a confident manner , ‘ Throw that away , and put up yer dukes like a man ! ’ |
| 2 | The rise of cities in the modern world is undoubtedly not independent of the emergence of modern power-driven machine technology , mass production , and capitalistic enterprise ; but different as the cities of the earlier epochs may have been by virtue of their development in a pre-industrial and pre-capitalistic order from the great cities of today , they were also cities . |
| 3 | From the very beginning , the Minoans were in contact with people of other cultures , and the only way that contact could happen was by sea . |
| 4 | Thus , at the time of the last Tory leadership election , a victory for Michael Heseltine would have been by far the most professionally exciting result . |
| 5 | For example , if you look up the word " wit " in a Concordance to Congreve , you will find all the places where the seventeenth-century dramatist Congreve used that word ; you can then work out what its particular meaning for Congreve must have been by studying how he uses it . |
| 6 | and the basis , basics would have been by the end of next week but certain , assuming that they are not interrupted and sort of dragged onto something more lucrative the bad news will have been quantified by then . |
| 7 | If it were not for the scenes written after his marriage , The Elder Statesman would have been by far the grimmest play he had ever written . |