Example sentences of "that he [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Digression won well enough , but the big minus factor against him is the fact that he is by the American stallion , Seattle Slew , whose progeny have tended not to train on over here . |
| 2 | From Manners ' remarks in Parliament on 18th February , it is clear that he was by then already familiar with Scott 's proposals although the detailed drawings were not sent to his office until 3rd March . |
| 3 | He spoke with the fervour of discovery , unaware it seems that he was by this date , imperially speaking , reinventing the wheel . |
| 4 | Yet Wordsworth tells us that he was by upbringing and inclination a natural Democrat ( Prelude 1805 , ix , 217 ff ) . |
| 5 | The impression is of a king who at his accession was thoroughly acceptable to the Church but the persistence of dynastic in-fighting demonstrates that he was by no means universally popular among the lay nobility . |