Example sentences of "was by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his attitude was by now part of the common sense of clergy and people alike . |
| 2 | The article was by Percy Hoskins , the greatest Commissioners of Police and thieves and villains , who drank champagne at the Caprice , had an apartment in park lane , was an intimate of Lord Beaverbrook , yet kept the common touch . |
| 3 | ‘ Who did you say it was by ? ’ |
| 4 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 5 | I have also seen written applications for the CID ridiculed by those inside , and listened to the expressions of disbelief that these naïve applicants were ‘ so short of shillings that they did n't realise that admission was by invitation only ’ . |
| 6 | There is an ‘ élitist thread ’ in such places , and joining was by oligarchic selection and specific invitation , followed by a suitably off-beat initiation . |
| 7 | But he was honest enough to say that he was ‘ fascinated ’ by it too ; as he was by all forms of physical violence . |
| 8 | He was by profession a melamed , a Hebrew school-teacher , not even of rabbinic standing . |
| 9 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 10 | Yet at the end of the eighties the only government money paid to BR was the rapidly dwindling subsidy paid to Provincial and Network SouthEast sectors to support loss-making services and talk continued of ‘ bustitution ’ , however ridiculed it was by professional transport executives . |
| 11 | Strengthening was by an armoured shield of 7.6mm iron wire and it established the standard for undersea cable design for years to come . |
| 12 | Transmission was by reverse-battery polarity , a simple yet efficient way of ensuring that dots and dashes used exactly the same voltage . |
| 13 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 14 | But of course the erotic can be conceived quite differently , as it was by Pound . |
| 15 | Tate , an ambitious poet whose few irreplaceable poems were yet to come , was by 1927 in animated correspondence with two poets , Yvor Winters ( 1900–1968 ) and Hart Crane ( 1899-1932 ) , who were at one , if in little else , in their certainty that Eliot 's fame and Eliot 's precedent were bad news for American poetry . |
| 16 | The opera , like Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess the following year , used an all-Black cast and the staging and choreography gave it a British connection since it was by Frederick Ashton . |
| 17 | A big , physically powerful lawyer born into the most distinguished of the half-dozen Hong Kong families with a genuine claim to ‘ old money ’ status , T S Lo was by his early forties one of the grandest figures in the colonial establishment . |
| 18 | Jarvis , 51 , who is the son of a jump jockey , has been training for 21 years and Carroll House 's victory was by far his most important . |
| 19 | Lynn Binstock 's direction ( the original version was by John Cox ) was unprovocative , almost workmanlike , and the production one in which the music and the characterisation were of paramount importance — I certainly discovered fresh beauties and subtleties in the score , which was carefully conducted and nicely paced by a youthful Justin Brown . |
| 20 | The only way to view the Chancellor was by scrambling through the neighbouring graveyard and looking at the house across a row of tombstones . |
| 21 | The largest deal , however , was by a British company in The Netherlands , with Scottish & Newcastle Breweries ' acquisition of CentreParcs . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Jowitt told Anderson : ‘ I accept that you were not on the prowl looking for a victim and that it was by chance that this young lady got into your car . |
| 23 | Stalin was by no means alone . |
| 24 | Hawksmoor , who had already had a great deal of experience as an architect , was brought in as clerk of works and it is quite likely that the design was by both men . |
| 25 | It was by no means clear how the figure arose in the first place . |
| 26 | Indeed , the central state built up its authority , directly and indirectly , in the Thatcher years more decisively than in , say , the Attlee period , which was by comparison a model of high pluralism , evidence by the retreat from ‘ planning ’ in 1947–50 . |
| 27 | On Europe , as has been seen , Labour was by 1989 much more committed to developments within the Community . |
| 28 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 29 | Book IX was by far the most thumbed section of Eliot 's Odyssey , and it was the story of the Cyclops that ‘ savage man ’ which he read most attentively . |
| 30 | But this was by no means a neurotic homosexuality : For them it was a means to a livelihood , as pimping is for others ’ ( p. 180 ) . |