Example sentences of "by [noun pl] [pron] do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's very difficult to replace that sort of quality , particularly by clubs who do n't spend a great deal of money . |
| 2 | By puddings I do not mean the pretty little fripperies that are offered at the end of an elegant dinner as token appeasement of our sweet-toothed leanings . |
| 3 | There are lies , damned lies , and statistics , but there are no lies more damned than those created by statisticians who do n't know what they 're about . |
| 4 | By methods which did n't sit well in peacetime America . |
| 5 | Synthesis was achieved only after some years , and only by methods which did not justify expansion to an industrial scale . |
| 6 | All I said simply slid off the shell into which he retreated when confronted by words he did not want to hear . |
| 7 | They even get angry and suggest these are lies put about by foreigners who do not understand how deeply attuned they are to Mother Africa . |
| 8 | Another person is happy or unhappy : I can use his good mood perhaps to charm a concession out of him , or take advantage of a time when he is distracted by trouble to steal a march on him ; but I shall not be pleased or displeased by emotions which do not touch my interests . |
| 9 | The method used in the past few years has been simple — ignore names put forward by organisations you do not approve of and pack the committees with more sympathetic interest groups . |
| 10 | Apparently the body , his body was making too much blood and the only way that he could release it was by building , by nosebleeds it do n't make sense does it ? |
| 11 | There was a lot of stress on resources , and by resources I do n't just mean books in libraries , I mean staffing resources primarily … and we used to be very fierce about the quality of course leadership , for example . |
| 12 | It seems that the main annalist 's fondness for tales of woe in this case led him to distort the facts , or that he was misled by sources which did so . |
| 13 | Does not he have a powerful point when he says : ’ The new system is run by accountants who do n't have to sit across the table from the patient and say I can not treat you' ’ until the new financial year ? |
| 14 | In real life , the business of deducing molecular symmetry from vibrational spectra may be complicated by transitions which do not correspond to the vibrational selection rule . |
| 15 | Our daily bread is concocted by chemists who do not sleep easy at night . |
| 16 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
| 17 | Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he did n't have long to live . |
| 18 | The lecture periods could be used for outside visitors , or for specific and relevant accounts by teachers who did not normally participate in the work ; examples were the playing of records of part of Haydn 's Creation with explanation and commentary , by a teacher made specially available , and a talk on Red Indian tribes by a visitor from a local museum , together with overhead transparencies , slides and objects from the museum collection . |
| 19 | The place which now bears its name is in quite another part of town and is run by men who did n't even know Madame . |
| 20 | From that dissolute , pleasurable and wasted place , no wonder he 's threatened by people who decide to use their intelligence differently , and especially by women who do n't fit a stereotype that bolsters the ludicrous notion that He is a Superior Being . |
| 21 | His KL collection is in a sense a continuation of the looks he designed for Chloé in being soft , rather sexy and highly individual and tends to be worn by women who do not need the reassurance of the double C on gilt buttons . |
| 22 | They played on the concourse , and er were always being shouted at by residents who did n't want them er playing just in front of their places . |
| 23 | In accordance with The Education ( Fees and Awards ) Regulations 1983 ( as amended ) , higher ( overseas ) levels of fee are payable by students who do not have a relevant connection with the UK , the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man . |
| 24 | In accordance with the Education ( Fees and Awards ) Regulations 1983 ( as amended ) , higher ( overseas ) levels of fees are payable by students who do not have a ‘ relevant connection ’ with the UK , the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man . |
| 25 | There is already witch hunting by bigots who do n't use burning stakes any more — the law mercifully wo n't allow them to . |