Example sentences of "by [det] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the forty who said yes , what do you mean by that when you say you 're a feminist ? |
| 2 | If , if , if you could explain it by that because presumably their standard of living did change between eighteen fifty |
| 3 | Erm , nothing derogatory meant er by that because the reason photographs are used for chocolate boxes and biscuits and things and jigsaw puzzles is cos they 're good photographs and they , they 're subjects which people like . |
| 4 | So Jesus when he sees their situation , he 's not concerned by the storm by the way , he 's not put out by that because he knows he 's going to the other side , but for the sake of them he gets up and he speaks the word , Jesus he said , peace . |
| 5 | And I think you know the management ought to learn , hopefully they will learn a bit by that as well . |
| 6 | This kind of mutuality can certainly happen between friends , though there must be a clear understanding by each as to the nature of the exercise , a proper respect for confidences and for each other 's judgment . |
| 7 | Such things may be seen by some as the inevitable watering down of the faith ; that the alternative to fundamentalism is a blurring of the lines and the inability of the Church to address the world . |
| 8 | It means ‘ determined by some as yet unknown , or unspecified , means ’ . |
| 9 | In whatever way it is financed , such investment is regarded by some as having been a direct loss to the domestic economy and as such having contributed to Britain 's poor investment record [ Singh , 1977 ] . |
| 10 | I stood engrossed by this until I heard the rocking chair creak behind me , and at that I scampered up after them . |
| 11 | Charles Darwin , perhaps the greatest field naturalist of all time , was impressed by this when he first encountered the tropics during his journey in HMS Beagle in the 1830s . |
| 12 | I find I am not as pleased by this as I thought I might be . |
| 13 | And on twenty five minutes , Nigel Mott got that opening goal as an excellent through ball from Paul Biddle found him in space and he placed the ball wide of the Fairmile goalkeeper Mark Carrigan ; Fairmile were not to be perturbed by this as on their half an hour Wayne Glossop went close for the home side . |
| 14 | ‘ I am not worried by this because I do believe war has been glamorised beyond all belief . ’ |
| 15 | Universities forced to reduce staff numbers by half after the science council concluded that they were grossly oversubscribed did not appreciate being asked to take in outsiders at a further cost to their own numbers . |
| 16 | PRINCESS Anne is to slash her official duties by half when she becomes Mrs Tim Laurence . |
| 17 | This total would be cut by half if they transferred their educational budgets to central government . |
| 18 | But that figure could be cut by half if falling sales and paper closures are brought into the equation . |
| 19 | A man is not punishable for a serious crime committed by another unless he has actually instigated the commission of a crime , and then he will be punishable though the crime committed may differ in some degree from that which he instigated . |
| 20 | Small stones bit into her palms and an involuntary cry escaped her lips , to be quickly followed by another when fitzAlan 's hand grasped her elbow . |
| 21 | It was followed by another when his father swiftly remarried , and from then on Nasser was never close to him . |
| 22 | For this reason it may not be correct to relate thermodynamic quantities obtained from one cooling curve to those obtained by another as has been pointed out by Gee ( 1966 ) . |
| 23 | There was also criticism of the Scottish system 's period of ‘ adjustments ’ by both sides after claims and defences have been lodged , which was described by another as ‘ a lot of footering about altering original positions — which could all be done a lot faster ’ . |
| 24 | In the mid 1970s an IPM survey showed that even the most popular tests were used by fewer than 10 per cent of companies . |
| 25 | For instance , between 1972 and 1982 I caught 35392 hoverflies of 89 species in the Malaise trap , but seven species accounted for more than two-thirds of the catch and 35 species were each represented by fewer than 10 individuals . |
| 26 | However , it quickly emerged that this declaration was backed by fewer than a quarter of the Platform delegates at the congress . |
| 27 | ‘ Denbighshire can afford to lose by fewer than four wickets and still pip us on the calculation of wickets lost where the points are equal , ’ explained manager Jones , of Buckley . |
| 28 | She identified with the emotions of the young men she accompanied , including the mental agonies suffered by many after the conflict had ended and they had returned home . |
| 29 | She identified with the emotions of the young men she accompanied , including the mental agonies suffered by many after the conflict had ended and they had returned home . |
| 30 | PLYMOUTH MUSEUM & ART GALLERY The last self-portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds -regarded by many as his finest — is among a small group of 17th and 18th-century paintings loaned from the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle . |