Example sentences of "[adv] by [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you get on the layline too early then you risk being slowed down by everyone tacking in front of you and , furthermore , if the wind shifts you have no option other than sailing on , thereby losing ground over your competitors . |
| 3 | Aye I said , so she said the landlord 's never put it down so we thought he 'd have had it down by she come home cos Alison seen it and where they work and th and there 's a room there or something and she 'd asked the boss could she have it for the bathroom . |
| 4 | So we sauntered home and by the time just when we got home perhaps by you know we 'd get home at nine , by quarter past nine er we saw the Zeppelin come over . |
| 5 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 6 | Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies . |
| 7 | The hysteria in their colleague 's voice would have been enough by itself to ensure their prompt response , but the unmistakable background of gunfire added urgency to the situation . |
| 8 | The growth of population in the last 200 years is enough by itself to make much of previous history seem almost static . |
| 9 | In his influential Le Même et l'autre Vincent Descombes has described the entire history of twentieth-century philosophy in France as a succession of moves which attempt to get out of this Hegelian dialectic : the recent phenomenon of poststructuralism is part of a long philosophical story and distinguished only by what appears to be a certain success , or at least an avoidance of failure to the extent that it has at least managed to keep the game with Hegel in play . |
| 10 | At any one moment the positioning of the folds of the vocal tract is determined not only by what has just been said but by what is about to be said ( Springer , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | In our complex society so many of the peculiarities of our institutions and policies can be explained only by what has gone before . |
| 12 | His period at Point Cook seems to have been distinguished only by his getting a first in flying , and a second in the academic studies — by his standards , a poor start . |
| 13 | Despite his lead , Parry was not fully satisfied with his game and said he was kept in the hunt only by his putting . |
| 14 | THE RETURN of Vibes hero Mr Egg in a gloriously multicoloured acid-induced cloud of techno ACID HOUSE ! ushered along by what appears to be the sampled , gentle whispers of Cocteau Twin Liz Frazer mysteriously lost in infinite hyperspace . |
| 15 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 16 | Their absence will cause a major reshuffle of the side by Lithuania 's coach Algi Mantas Liubinskas but Irish manager Jack Charlton will not be carried away by what seems an unexpected boost . |
| 17 | Their absence will cause a major reshuffle of the side by Lithuania 's coach Algi Mantas Liubinskas but Irish manager Jack Charlton is refusing to be carried away by what seems an unexpected boost . |
| 18 | Because y do n't forget that in the past , building societies have always been taken over by you know , sort of friendly merger . |
| 19 | It 's just been taken over by you know , it 's gone into the big big time er Oh dear me , I forget his name now . |
| 20 | Just by somebody talking I do n't know . |
| 21 | Not just by him telling he 's a miner he can say er that 's a miner . |
| 22 | But reasons of identification and self-definition can not by themselves establish the legitimacy of an authority . |
| 23 | It follows that names can not be descriptions , for descriptions are invariably complex , and ( it is implied ) inherently ambiguous , i.e. they do not by themselves ensure the uniqueness of the referential relation in any given case of referring . |
| 24 | A few apricots or a slice of bread will not by themselves supply that much iron . |
| 25 | The fact that a child is weaned early ( or undergoes a period of separation , or has minimal brain damage , or loses a parent through death ) will not by itself tell one about the eventual outcome . |
| 26 | Here again , though , this is not by itself to say that where a co-operative can get properly started in a capital intensive business , it would find it more difficult to compete than would a conventionally organised firm . |
| 27 | The true position seems to be that something done or promised before the promise sued on is not by itself treated as a sufficient reason for the enforcement of the promise . ’ |
| 28 | Because there was no general duty to give reasons , the absence of reasons does not by itself entitle the court to hold that the award was not supportable . |
| 29 | Important though collective bargaining is as a method of extending employee influence at local level , there is a range of important decisions which it can not by itself reach . |
| 30 | The adjective beautiful , for example , denotes a quality which can be found in many different objects and therefore does not by itself indicate the nature of that about which it is said . |