Example sentences of "am by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now I am by nature an enthusiast . |
| 2 | And I am what I am by the grace of God . |
| 3 | Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little , restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house , but of course , over time , one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another , and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized . |
| 4 | IMPRESSED just this side of awe as I am by the Department of Transport and its fearless tackling of such problems as juggernaut lorries and EEC regulations , I must nevertheless confess some disquiet about a recent plan . |
| 5 | This would probably be a less effective form of making collective distinctions than ‘ ethnicity ’ , but I am by no means clear why . |
| 6 | I am by training and profession an historian ; my role has been to collect these documents , to present and elucidate them , to attempt to show their meaning and limitations , according to traditional historical methods . |
| 7 | Trammelled as I am by ‘ the service ’ , I can only plead guilty to what it is impossible to amend without commencing de novo — for everything and everybody must find their level on board of a king 's ship . |
| 8 | I am by nature a messy person , unimpressed with orderliness and free of guilt over squalor . |
| 9 | I believe that ammonia solution was used to produce this colour but am by no means sure about it . |
| 10 | For this reason — and I am by no means a lone voice — I disapprove of the government 's plans for ITV franchises . |
| 11 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 12 | I thought you 'd be as excited as I am by the idea . ’ |
| 13 | Every other time I 've been in somebody 's flat like this I 've known where I am by the books . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't feel poor — not when I remember our childhood ! — but of course I am by her standards . |
| 15 | ‘ Flattered as I am by your confidence , Extremis , I 'm afraid the situation is getting complicated . ’ |
| 16 | Nor had his optimism , which was a relief to me as , being a Slav , I am by nature distinctly pessimistic . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I get big laff with them because I am by then very fluent in Chilean Spanish . ’ |
| 18 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 19 | It might help you to know that I have been writing down my dreams on waking , an accepted practice , I believe , in some circles , and perhaps of more use in my case than in some as I am by profession a writer . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish , ’ he murmured , ‘ I 'm not Superman , you know , and , flattered as I am by your assumptions , the truth is I 'm usually too busy for socialising . |
| 21 | I merely say that I think the question might be expected to interest your readers , but I am by no means confident that they will care much about the matter . |
| 22 | I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for British Coal , but its future success and security depend on its becoming more competitive and productive so that it can secure a large part of the British energy market in years ahead . |
| 23 | ‘ I am by no means suggesting that there is no crime or no violence , obviously that is not true . |