Example sentences of "[prep] it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 2 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
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| 4 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 5 | If the academy can not itself produce literature , and if even criticism can be written outside of it by novelists , poets , and literary journalists , then what it , and only it , can produce is theory . |
| 6 | The Trick of It by Michael Frayn , Viking £11.95 . |
| 7 | The Trick of It by Michael Frayn , Viking £11.95 . |
| 8 | Nor is the idea of community policing popular amongst ordinary constables in other sections of the police , often because it contradicts their views of what constitutes ‘ real ’ police work , but also because they have misguided notions about what community policing is , as well as a practical awareness of the unrealistic expectations held of it by enthusiasts . |
| 9 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 10 | Not only does the body clock contribute to the changes that are found , but also we can gain clues about the nature of it by a study of the changes . |
| 11 | I know every word of it by heart . |
| 12 | Inheriting the earth , or what 's left of it by the time the non-meek have realized the folly of their ways , is a process which takes much fortitude and patience . |
| 13 | ‘ The lighthouses were built , operated , financed and owned by private individuals , who could sell the lighthouse or dispose of it by bequest , ’ Mr Coase found . |
| 14 | If the owner of a watch is robbed of it by a thief , the owner 's rights as rights remain intact ; the thief acquires no right to the watch as against the owner . |
| 15 | Despite the outspoken warning by the Scottish parliament , and the reiteration of it by his own envoy , Sadler , he continued to demand that Mary be given into his keeping immediately . |
| 16 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 17 | Perhaps the strongest statements to this effect can be found in the report relating to Jasmine Beckford 's death : ‘ We are strongly of the view that social work can in fact be defined only in terms of the functions required of it by their employing agency operating within a statutory framework ’ ( London Borough of Brent , 1985 , p. 12 ) . |
| 18 | He genuinely had little concern with making money for its own sake , but he could not fail to be infected by Marjorie 's martyred attitude to their shortage of cash , and he resented being reminded of it by Kegan 's sleekness . |
| 19 | ‘ Had to learn great chunks of it by heart . |
| 20 | Dick Crossman had been kept out of office or the expectation of it by both Attlee , who could not forgive him for resisting Bevin 's policy towards Palestine , and his successor . |
| 21 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 22 | The development of the law along these lines is recent and confirmation of it by an august Commission is ominous . |
| 23 | It was a mammoth undertaking involving digging into the side of a sheer cliff face , much of it by hand since the proximity of buildings made the use of explosives hazardous . |
| 24 | All the evidence to date — and there is a considerable body of it by now — shows that physical methods of punishment ( the deliberate infliction of pain on the child ) may for the time being suppress the behaviour that it is meant to inhibit but will not form character . |
| 25 | ‘ But as I was packing the stuff into a carrier bag at the check-out I missed the butcher meat and sat a carrier bag on top of it by mistake . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Time is precious , and I do n't intend to waste any more of it by listening to your nonsense ! ’ |
| 27 | It had done everything asked of it by CSM , waited three years and got its product licensed . |
| 28 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 29 | I had heard of it by name , but never quite knew what it was . |
| 30 | In 1939 , Reich found evidence of it by ‘ chance ’ when experimenting with the creation of living cells called ‘ bions ’ . |