Example sentences of "[v-ing] by the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , departmental committees have come to play a more important role in this regard , seeking by the examination of Ministers and senior members of the Civil Service , amongst others , to elicit information , previously much less accessible , as a basis for more intelligent criticism and control . |
| 2 | You could tell how a party was going by the number of items of Jo-Jo 's clothing scattered about the dance floor . |
| 3 | IRISH coach Cees Koppelaar is standing by the panel of players who missed out on World Cup qualification for the game against old rivals England next month . |
| 4 | He left her standing by the bank of lockers , and headed back toward the door . |
| 5 | Groups of young men sitting on the ground near a closed library , reading and talking by the light of flares in petrol cans . |
| 6 | Judging by the enthusiasm of pupils and teachers alike this was a very successful event ; it was well covered in the local press as well as by BBC and ITV news . |
| 7 | Judging by the number of stars in this hotel , lots of plaques will eventually be in order . |
| 8 | Judging by the number of messages , everyone on the new list is having a great time already ! |
| 9 | To my amazement , although the motel is full judging by the amount of cars , there are no residents on view . |
| 10 | At least the enemy are in a similar situation probably much worse off then we are judging by the amount of shells passing over our heads to fall in their positions . |
| 11 | The soil was suitably acid , I suspected , judging by the proliferation of rhododendrons I had seen . |
| 12 | THE dinosaur film epic Jurassic Park looks like being a runaway success judging by the reaction of audiences who packed cinemas in New York last night for the first showing of the film . |
| 13 | Summing this series of probabilities , and dividing by the number of records loaded , we obtain : |
| 14 | The mean letter width value is obtained by summing the x differences ( x max - x min ) for each word in the training set , and dividing by the number of letters written . |