Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had conquered that by an effort of the will which had once been almost her enemy , so strong was it , but had , in enabling her to live calmly among so many enemies in male form , become her friend . |
| 2 | It is impossible to understand the events of Anselm 's years as archbishop — and more particularly the events of the next few years — unless this distinction between his public duty of preserving rights for which his office made him responsible , and his personal duty of obeying commands which he had heard and by implication assented to , is borne in mind . |
| 3 | The early starts were a disadvantage , but Charles had minimized that by staying with Miles and Juliet and having the car pick him up at six . |
| 4 | Earlier reports had said that by the end of May more than 100 of an estimated 2,000 political prisoners had been freed [ see p. 38913 ] . |
| 5 | All through the 1960s the package holiday market had grown and by the early 1970s they accounted for nearly half of all overseas travel . |
| 6 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 7 | By the time Zahedi rejoined his king in Morrocco at the end of January 1979 , he had decided that by refusing to give the Shah unequivocal support , the United States had betrayed him . |
| 8 | Two years ago Mr Gladstone had promised that by 1855 taxation would drop to sixpence in the pound , but the war in the Crimea had put a stop to such plans . |
| 9 | The president had agreed that by some means or other Britain must gain a clear victory . |
| 10 | The motor age had arrived and by the end of the 1950s one and a quarter million new vehicles were being registered every year . |
| 11 | The prison department said that by 9.30am the vast majority of prisoners had surrendered and by 11.15 the remaining handful of inmates had given themselves up . |
| 12 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |
| 13 | She had called it ‘ Death in the Buildings ’ , and had based it not only on the tragedy she had witnessed , but had also written of the temptation for young girls to make money by selling themselves than by working long hours for poor pay , and had followed that by writing of women 's disabilities in a world where care in childbirth was minimal , and how only the kindness of humane doctors made it possible for them to have any skilled treatment at all . |
| 14 | A lawyer for Mr O'Reilly said the chemist had believed that by diluting the cream it removed the necessity for a prescription . |
| 15 | Whether he had perceived that by acceding to British demands he had permanently estranged himself from Russia is debatable . |
| 16 | Mauss had suggested that by an exhaustive process of observation and recording , it might be possible to establish unchanging laws of human behaviour . |
| 17 | In 1957 , Sir Christopher Hinton , about to become the very first chairman of the CEGB , had predicted that by the 1970s nuclear power would be ‘ appreciably ’ cheaper than coal-fired generation . |