Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 2 | Asthma kills two thousand people a year , but the new research shows that the gene which can cause it is only active when it 's passed on by the mother . |
| 3 | It 'll close with the loss of at least a hundred jobs if it 's taken over by the Suffolk-based brewer Greene King . |
| 4 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 5 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 6 | It is illuminated only by the light shining from the stairwell and the desk lamp on the old trestle table which holds the computer . |
| 7 | It is getting harder by the day to isolate the various segments of the electronic publishing industry into neat little compartments . |
| 8 | When the marsh has built up to an elevation such that it is covered only by the highest tides , it is usually reclaimed for pasture by building a simple embankment around it . |
| 9 | It is matched only by the insistence of the anonymous reviewer of the TLS that in The Lord of the Rings all the good and bad sides do is try to kill each other , so that they can not be told apart : ‘ Morally there seems nothing to choose between them . ’ |
| 10 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 11 | It is filtered solely by the undergravel method , run by two powerheads . |
| 12 | It is enacted not by the ordinary legislative authority but by some higher and specially empowered body . |
| 13 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 14 | Modelled on its Princeton namesake , it is funded mainly by the state of Berlin . |
| 15 | It is reinforced further by the fact that they have a low default risk . |
| 16 | Each activity has a main subject focus , though ( i ) it is held together by the history theme of the project , and ( ii ) it will not be exclusively mono-subject based . |
| 17 | Well if the school decides to opt out it is financed directly by the D E S. |
| 18 | It is simplified mainly by the omission of government and foreign trade activities . |
| 19 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | In Darlington there are in excess of 3,000 people on the council 's housing waiting list and it is growing longer by the day . ’ |
| 21 | In Darlington , there are in excess of 3,000 people on the council 's housing waiting list and it is growing longer by the day . |
| 22 | It is identified microscopically by the spiral coil of the head and the fact that the viviparous female has a tail with three or four short points . |
| 23 | It is administered entirely by the Bar Council and meets once a month ( except August ) . |
| 24 | The crisis surrounding the tunnel threatens to embarrass the Government , which insisted it be financed entirely by the private sector . |
| 25 | At first glance , late Anglo-Saxon political history portrays a state riven by internal discord and highly vulnerable to external enemies : only fifty years after the Danish conquest it was subjugated again by the Normans . |
| 26 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 27 | It was illustrated yesterday by the pairing of Nick Faldo with John Daly ; Boycott batting with Botham , Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy . |
| 28 | His timing was good , though it was determined mainly by the exigencies of the situation . |
| 29 | Once inside , Belinda noted with relief that it was lit mainly by the dim , warm yellow of candles in the centre of each table , which would soften the contours of her figure and save her from a self-consciousness that was probably unnecessary in any case … |
| 30 | It was opposed only by the centre-left Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , son of Gen. Lázaro Cárdenas who pioneered land distribution in the 1930s . |