Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 2 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 3 | Those who can get out generally do ; those who can not , remain trapped by poor housing , declining job opportunities , inadequate public services , increasing crime and vandalism , worsening education , declining likelihood of new employment opportunities , increased likelihood of disturbances and riots , and so on . |
| 4 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 5 | It is quite clear , sir , that on the existing allocations , thirteen years to go , that the figure of nine thousand seven hundred dwellings , if you want to stick by that figure , my view it should be lower because it has too much an assumption for migration in a constrained area , if you want to stick by that figure , the nine thousand seven hundred will be reached without a new settlement , of that I have no doubt whatsoever . |
| 6 | However , I propose to begin by first exploring what might be called the " reductivist strategy " . |
| 7 | The knowledge which it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 8 | The knowledge it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 9 | Similar characteristics are piece mobility ( the number of squares open to attack by one side 's pieces ) and the control or occupation of the centre four squares . |
| 10 | He is also fan worshipped by one woman in particular sporting a Buddy sweatshirt . |
| 11 | Men who get stimulated by sexy literature 59% |
| 12 | Women who get stimulated by sexy literature 6% |
| 13 | Tracks get covered by wind-blown sand in minutes . |
| 14 | Cos we , when I get in I get chosen by other fire station |
| 15 | The second place is that probably one of the reasons that physicians feel threatened by these kind of laws is that , without the law , I can cruise along and maintain my patients ' comfort and my sanity to the best of my ability . |
| 16 | Professor Jose Fernandez-Britto , a world-renowned pathologist from Havana , has shown striking evidence of the death of cancer cells that become surrounded by fibrous tissue as a consequence of shark cartilage . |
| 17 | Some children are selective about where they have tantrums especially when parents become distressed by difficult behaviour in public places : on the bus or in the shops are prime target areas . |
| 18 | Well do you think you could pop upstairs and look and see if I 've got by any chance have |
| 19 | This is what we 've achieved by extreme centralization and extreme specialization — a society so complex that everyone in it is winning the race . |
| 20 | If you intend to travel by public transport then do check the reliability of local operators . |
| 21 | In such hard cases , as also in the ones where either of these interests conflicts with the interests of humans , we need to proceed by careful study of all the local factors and not by general principles . |
| 22 | 8 Third parties Without doubt the courts will in proper circumstances restrain a breach of confidence by third parties who have come by confidential information . |
| 23 | For instance , since 1975 capital spending has fallen by around thirteen percentage points , whereas current grants and subsidies , mainly for welfare purposes , have risen by ten percentage points and current spending on goods and services , by around two percentage points . |
| 24 | While share prices are little changed on their 1987 peak , dividends have grown by 70 p.c . ’ |
| 25 | In general , studies of women prose writers have outstripped by some distance studies of poets apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Countess of Winchilsea . |
| 26 | I am not an optimist by nature , but since coming to this country I have blessed by good fortune . |
| 27 | My feet have reduced by one size ! |
| 28 | And erm I think it 's a little bit of creative accountancy on their part in saying that and in fact putting that five hundred thousand elsewhere , and also they have erm done a further piece of creative accountancy in that the provision for pay and price increases they have reduced by one point five million , and the combined budget reduces it by half that figure . |
| 29 | Vacancies for chief executives and managing directors have risen by more than one-third in the last year , while senior managerial vacancies have increased by 17.4 p.c . |
| 30 | Fearful of the obvious dangers of traffic and molestation , parents have reacted by forbidding street play to younger offspring and by chauffeuring them around in the family car , itself more widely available . |