Example sentences of "[conj] they [adv] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he could recall seeing one or two small oils hung in local restaurants and pubs , slap-dash in technique and economical of paint , but so different from the prettified watercolours that it was hard to believe that they too were by the same hand . |
| 2 | Far from being outdated , this old and broad conception of democracy holds out the only hope of compensating for the weaknesses of elected representative assemblies , dwarfed as they presently are by the bureaucratic and monopolistic structures of power which surround them . |
| 3 | Enthusiastic as some of the clergy may have been for war and seduced as they sometimes were by their own eloquence and propaganda for it , they were less eager about the burdens which it entailed . |
| 4 | Before he had ascended the lengthy slope and reached his parked car , the shrieking had stopped , but the flames were burning fiercer than ever , fuelled as they now were by melting human fat . |
| 5 | State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege . |