Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb base] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can have hardly few weeks or months go by when you see some , you know er , latest lunatic disproof of Darwin , you know , appears in the press . |
| 2 | Where bookings occur by an exchange of letters , the initial inquiry by the guest does not amount to an offer to contract , nor necessarily does the hotel 's reply to the guest stating the tariff and room availability . |
| 3 | where nurses pass by him . |
| 4 | When people say , ‘ What 's the big idea ? ’ or ‘ Have you any idea of the time ? ’ or ‘ I 've no idea what she sees in him ’ , they are not exhibiting their acceptance of a theory of language , the theory that words work by conveying ideas . |
| 5 | Furthermore , plants utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that animals eject , and animals Bean yet more energy from the environment by utilizing the oxygen that plants eject by converting it into new combinations of chemicals . |
| 6 | The Government believes that terrorists survive by " the oxygen of publicity " , but television confrontations generally demonstrate the moral unattractiveness of those who believe that the end justifies the means . |
| 7 | The revenue gained from this reform should be used so that contributions rise by single percentage points over bands of income up to the upper earnings limit . |
| 8 | For his part , Branson was within his rights to insist that Wilson abide by the contract she had signed , but he agreed to renegotiate . |
| 9 | The records in the same section can not randomize to the same address , so that synonyms arise by records in different sections having the same remainder . |
| 10 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 11 | It is well known that trees grow by the addition of rings , usually ( though not always ) annually . |
| 12 | The idea is that species originate by the sudden events , whatever they may be , and they have new characteristics , which randomly related to the characteristics of their ancestral species . |
| 13 | He argues that societies change by a process of structural differentiation . |
| 14 | The commission also wants a return to hands-on technology , plus tests to ensure that children progress by ability , not age . |
| 15 | ‘ Oscar Wilde once said that children begin by loving their parents ; after a time they judge them ; rarely , if ever , do they forgive them . |
| 16 | SEYMOUR PAPERT believes that children learn by building their own intellectual structures which they then apply to reality . |
| 17 | And there is no implication that children start by learning about language forms , and then eventually progress to learning about , say , dialects . |
| 18 | Trained keyboard users can type much faster than humans write by hand , but speech is much faster than either of these for the majority of people . |
| 19 | This sensational finding suggests that whales navigate by following a magnetic map of the ocean floor . |
| 20 | An unskilled teacher might insist that students begin by computing . |
| 21 | In such circumstances it is essential that members of staff are fully aware of the situation and that students abide by the Provisions of the Act . |
| 22 | Danni and Kylie swear by them , they are the latest in hair accessories , they are called Flexi Combs and they are available from Boots at a mere 95p ! |
| 23 | It takes between two and seven years to convert to a certifiable organic system and yields reduce by around 20 per cent after conversion . |
| 24 | If kids learn by example , he 'll turn out whole classfuls of pedants . |
| 25 | Greece , Spain and Portugal appear by far the " cheapest " source of industrial labour within Europe ( at some 25 to 50 per cent of the EC12 average ) . |
| 26 | And just over the moors in a northerly direction is Birkdale where the counties of Yorkshire , Durham and Westmorland meet by a perpetually angry stream called Maize Beck and the hills soar to a deep-frozen two thousand feet . |
| 27 | If Cartha lose by more than 53 points to Lismore on Saturday they will go down . |
| 28 | As subject , Edmund acts for himself , doing anything that will advance him : Goneril and Regan live by the same principle . |
| 29 | It is obvious that if disposals continue by the ton for such crude reasons , then semi-literacy would be the inevitable consequence , because , in simple terms , the libraries would loose their critical mass . |
| 30 | Farmers , sailors , and chemists get by perfectly well on the basis of everyday experience , without recourse to Aristotelian logic . |