Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [noun] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making fools of the fools who make fools of the police is a funny business , but Murder By Misadventure is much more than a hackneyed trawl through the dogma of yesterday 's psycho-dramas . |
| 2 | Management by inertia is such a draining and wasteful approach that you must be prepared to resist its consequences with vigour . |
| 3 | Another issue brought into question by Miller is that of priorities . |
| 4 | His fascination with these systematic orderings of society by kinship was such that he undertook a massive comparison and classification of as many systems of kinship terms as he could find from around the world , terms such as ‘ cousin ’ , ‘ uncle ’ , etc . |
| 5 | FOR those fans with Royal Blue blood in their veins , the pictures on the front of Guinness Books ' Everton Player by Player are enough to bring tears to the eyes . |
| 6 | ‘ The 1979 Canal Treaties were not in jeopardy , there was no sign of danger to the Canal , and the war declaration by Noriega was more rhetoric than reality , ’ commented Mr Larry Birns , director of the respected regional think-tank , the Council for Hemispheric Affairs . |
| 7 | The Assembly , which was a kind of democracy , though a rather small , special and elite one , was liable to the bad democratic habit of rapidly overturning its own or its advisers ' decisions : so for instance Thucydides ( vi.89ff. ) implies that a single speech by Alcibiades was enough to make the Assembly reverse a decision not to help Syracuse in 414 . |
| 8 | One unfortunate consequence of this rather cavalier approach to the notion of class by sociolinguists is that meaningful debate on the question of how linguistic variability can most pertinently be related to social structure tends not to take place . |