Example sentences of "by [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the current exhibition , Traces of the Figure , ( City Museum & Art Gallery , Stoke-on-Trent ) contemporary works — sculptures , videos and photo-works by are on display . |
| 2 | PASSENGERS are causing corrosion of aircraft merely by being on board , say scientists , who are investigating an unexpected corrosion threat caused by smoke , condensation and ‘ other emissions ’ from travellers . |
| 3 | By being on top he avoids being vulnerable , but vulnerable he is and , contrary to appearances , sensitive in the extreme and often crying out for dependency . |
| 4 | in the casual past , by being at school with them , |
| 5 | But again , there must be a loss of income , because again , there 's the rule , that you ca n't be better off by being off work sick . |
| 6 | Okay , so they 've other P H I benefit , that must come off of the equation , because we , otherwise we 'll be paying it as well as another insurance company , which mean he 'll be better off financially , by being off work sick , yes . |
| 7 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 8 | ‘ You can only do business in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling by being in Aberdeen , Inverness and Stirling , ’ says Mitchell . |
| 9 | Subsequently , however , the Chronicle of 452 complicates matters more seriously , not only by being in conflict with other sources over the dating of events , but also by itself providing two alternative dating systems , wrongly correlated . |
| 10 | So if you 've got one at home you 're committing an offence by being in possession of it . |
| 11 | So if you 've got one at home , you 're committing an offence by being in possession of it . |
| 12 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 13 | Again , this type of insertion sequence is common among monolinguals : here it is clearly offset by being in London English in the midst of a Creole turn . |
| 14 | Up until the Seventies conventional playing of the spinners dictated that the batsman should be over the ball by dint of footwork or the bat smothering the spin by being in front of the front pad . |
| 15 | The dream that the resort offered was of economic independence by being in business on one 's own . |
| 16 | ‘ But surely I 'm defiled simply by being in ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |