Example sentences of "have [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find the textual basis for this interpretation very flimsy , in fact there is clear erm erm erm textual evidence for precisely the opposite and let me cite erm one instance Locke is here talking about tacit consent and the purchase of property and erm he says whenever the owner who has given nothing but such a tacit consent to the government will by donation , sale or otherwise quit the said possession , he is at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other commonwealth or to agree with others to begin a new one in any part of the world they can find free and unpossessed whereas he that has once by actual agreement in any expressed declaration given his consent to be of any commonwealth is perpetually and indispensably obliged to be and remain unalterably a subject to it and can never be again in the liberty of the state of nature . |
| 2 | It was not , however , until the Judges ' Rules were revised in 1964 that the protection was related to the moment when the charge was laid ; and as we have seen , the moment at which it attaches has now by Code C been further advanced . |
| 3 | She thought that perhaps he had had enough by now . |
| 4 | ‘ I should n't think so ; Jennifer will have had enough by now . ’ |
| 5 | Each of these sources provides new information that will enrich the ideas you start out with ; and the materials you explore will also provide a springboard into completely new ideas , that you are unlikely to have simply by contemplating the poems themselves . |
| 6 | With the mystery unsolved , we finished our drinks and left , wondering if we had perhaps by chance witnessed some peculiar fertility rites which women were not supposed to know about . |
| 7 | A hardened choirgirl , I had all by heart , |
| 8 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 9 | Why spoil what time they had together by sniping ? |
| 10 | In effect the European computer industry had already by summer 1984 obtained IBM 's agreement to the OSI requirement and this — not anti-monopoly — was now Europe 's chosen route . |
| 11 | McCreery had already by the afternoon of that day recognised that the question of what should be done about the Croats posed a particular problem . |
| 12 | I learned that the Manitoba Racing Commission had moreover by midafternoon given each of them not only a champagne reception and a splendid lunch but also , as a memento , a framed group photograph of all the owners on the trip . |
| 13 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 14 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 15 | Yet Labour had a double advantage with the electors : its leaders had served with complete loyalty in the coalition , and had thereby secured valuable experience of government , mostly , to be sure , on the home front ; but the party in Parliament had also by its single rebellion in 1943 made it clear to all that it was dissatisfied with the coalition 's progress towards social reform . |
| 16 | She had clearly by various decree created a force majeure over mineral workings and whilst at the time this would have appeared an admirable standing , nevertheless the monopoly began to serve , in later years , as a disincentive to exploration and development . |
| 17 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 18 | A suggestion that Dunne threw out caught many a reader 's fancy : anybody , he argued , could obtain the same results as he had simply by having a pad and a pencil beside the bed and writing down remembered dreams , immediately on waking up . |
| 19 | Arthur would be delighted that such pleasure could be had simply by mentioning his name . |
| 20 | I do not want to add to the controversy that we had earlier by saying that , yet again — and I congratulate them on this — our colleagues have obtained more in the English legislation than we have — The Minister indicates dissent , but I won the last argument and I am not sure whether he wants another one at this late hour . |
| 21 | During this period the man-eater had , quite possibly missed many opportunities of adding me to her bag and now , when making a final effort , she had quite by chance encountered this unfortunate man and claimed him as a victim . |
| 22 | Consequently , parties have little by way of financial sanctions to bring against undisciplined members of congress . |
| 23 | Looe — and its visitors — have much by which to remember the Thomases , senior and junior , and Joseph Thomas was well deserving of the silver bowl donated to him on the opening of his railway link in 1 901 . |
| 24 | As John Milton put it centuries before : ‘ Men of most renowned vertu have sometimes by transgressing , most truly kept the law ’ ( Tetrachordon , Prose Works , iv . |