Example sentences of "the [noun sg] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The orang is by far the most arboreal of the great apes . |
| 2 | The technique was by Friends of the Earth in an attempt to halt the Wymondham by-pass road scheme in Norfolk . |
| 3 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 4 | The Parliament is by no means the European counterpart of Westminster . |
| 5 | Renting out the family home while working abroad on contract may not be particularly appealing ; but selling it and having no stake in the home housing market on returning at the end of the contract is by no means an ideal solution . |
| 6 | The ‘ Cicerones ’ will be a team of experts drawn from the universities of Venice and Udine , and the electronics are by Telesia , part of Iacorossi . |
| 7 | Like a conveyance , in three cases : ( 1 ) When the purchase is by two or more persons , when they must sign in order to commit themselves to the terms on which they hold . |
| 8 | Assessment of the PhD/MPhil is by thesis and viva voce In addition candidates are expected to have published a review or preliminary research findings and contributed to research seminars . |
| 9 | Assessment of the PhD/MPhil is by thesis and viva voce . |
| 10 | Another way of getting out of the recession is by increasing public expenditure . |
| 11 | The building is by K. I. Dientzenhofer the Younger of 1726 . |
| 12 | A licence is void from the time it was granted where the payment was by a cheque which was eventually dishonoured ( Customs and Excise Management Act ) . |
| 13 | The ceiling frescos in the chancel are by V. V. Reiner and the carvings of 1636–7 are by M. Schönherr . |
| 14 | The story was by one Paul Hiebert and did not appear in book form until 1947 . |
| 15 | Much of the early work on the revolution carried out in the West was by émigré victims of the Bolshevik victory . |
| 16 | If you do manage it , the fight is by no means over . |
| 17 | Estate duty reliefs carried forward to CTT include freedom from tax where an interest in settled property comes to a end during the settlor 's life and the property then reverts to him ( unless , of course , the reverter is by reason of his purchase of the reversionary interest ) ; and an allowance analogous to the old Quick Succession Allowance where within four years there has been more than one chargeable transfer il which the value transferred has been determined by reference to the value of the same settled property in which an interest in possession subsists . |
| 18 | The play is by one of the leading English-speaking playwrights of today . |
| 19 | Since the play is by Shakespeare , the critical policy has been to assume the tragedy must be of the first stature and , therefore , the play would be written to support this revelation of interiority . |
| 20 | The loss was by far the largest in Lloyd 's 300-year history and compared with 1988 losses of £510,000,000 . |
| 21 | Firstly , lack of care was associated with at least a threefold increase in the risk of depression , whether the women were working-class or middle-class , and whether the loss was by separation or by death . |
| 22 | If the parties wish to adduce evidence in support of their cases , the appropriate way of determining the rent is by arbitration . |
| 23 | We knew the only way we could get in and take up our positions on the roof was by arriving early . |
| 24 | The talk is by Lord Charteris of Amisfield , a former Private Secretary to the Queen and a Permanent Lord in Waiting . |
| 25 | Quoting messages ; The only way I can see of ‘ reply'ing to a message , but sending it to the listserver is by FORWARDing it . |
| 26 | A way of measuring alcohol intake which is used throughout the industry is by " units " of alcohol . |
| 27 | Psychology sets out to fill the gaps left by these approaches , and in particular , to be ‘ a science which explains , vis-à-vis physics , why it is that the mind is by nature constrained initially to mislead reason in its dealings with reality ’ ( Canguilhem 1980 : 41 ) . |
| 28 | The only way in which the European Community can work in the future is by linking the concept of the free market with that strong collective provision . |
| 29 | The entrance is by a flight of steps and from the first floor . |
| 30 | The entrance was by a narthex , unusually for the time , stretching across the full width of the west end of the church . |