Example sentences of "by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is relativity with a vengeance , and many of us have felt than in a case like this the scales that Eliot measures by are not so much sliding as slithering . |
| 2 | ‘ Most of the sounds that we are surrounded by are not musical sounds , ’ Gaver argues . |
| 3 | The world 's cuisine in one city : Thai , Indian , Chinese , Spanish , South American , Californian , French , Austrian , Italian and magnificent English cooking of days gone by are all available at Birmingham 's restaurants . |
| 4 | A few minutes out of town there 's a famous Victorian restaurant where unusual dishes of days gone by are served in intimate , candlelit rooms , a medieval moated manor house now a hotel , and lovely country house hotels with excellent restaurants . |
| 5 | The situation appears to be very different from that in the literary world , where , for example , copyrights of minor works by are objects of immense value . |
| 6 | In the current exhibition , Traces of the Figure , ( City Museum & Art Gallery , Stoke-on-Trent ) contemporary works — sculptures , videos and photo-works by are on display . |
| 7 | there , I do n't know , I do n't know what you 're gon na do , cos whatever it is you 're not doing it , it 's just letting time go by are n't ya , treading water if you like . |
| 8 | Do you just try and quiet him by are you soothing ? |
| 9 | Well , would it , would it ready by are you sure you do n't want cheese and biscuits ? |
| 10 | The IS-DEPENDENT-ON field should list all software directly required by this module which is not covered by MODULE-RELATIONS-ARE ; i.e. software which has no module header associated with it . |
| 11 | For both capacities-though feared by men-are largely unrealised . |
| 12 | Both the Borough and Health Authority have supported the work of ACET in Ealing by being among the first to provide financial support . |
| 13 | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’ |
| 14 | By being unattractive , or too shy , |
| 15 | The present situation in 1990 is that would-be members can become provisional members by the following means ; by being offered an engagement by any company or management which operates under the ‘ Quota ’ system by agreement with Equity and the Theatre Managers ' Association . |
| 16 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 17 | The belief is to some degree affected by being told so by their authoritative pastors . |
| 18 | In section 1 , I have chosen various gliding areas which involve special hazards for the unwary , and have suggested how to prevent accidents by being conscious of potentially difficult situations . |
| 19 | This situation can be prevented by being prepared to release immediately if things start to go wrong , or by being ready to stop the wing coming up suddenly . |
| 20 | This situation can be prevented by being prepared to release immediately if things start to go wrong , or by being ready to stop the wing coming up suddenly . |
| 21 | I do n't know how the problem can be circumvented , except by being so much better than your opponent that even the most biased referee is forced to acknowledge your scores . |
| 22 | ‘ He will not become sounder by being mistrusted , ’ he said sharply . |
| 23 | Specifically , it obliges the young person to wear the tefillin ( the symbolic ‘ boxes ’ of the law worn by the orthodox ) when engaged in weekday prayers ; to participate in the synagogue services by being ‘ called to the law ’ ( a particular privilege and responsibility for a Cohen ) ; to be counted as an adult in the community for the purpose of establishing a quorum by which no service ( or synagogue , indeed ) could be instituted . |
| 24 | It was a celebration of their talents because , by being confined — so to speak — to those steps which they most enjoyed and thus performed best , they positively sparkled . |
| 25 | He can create overall rhythms and within them short phrase rhythms , but the basis of them all is that they exist in groups and by being efficient in action and appropriate to the context give pleasure to both the performer and the onlooker . ’ |
| 26 | As supplied the core is protected by being enclosed in a toroidal shaped hollow plastic case . |
| 27 | Just as you can gain access to the cave of the unconscious only by being inside already , he seems to be saying , so you can gradually reach towards an understanding of my work only by understanding it in advance . |
| 28 | Graff suggests that students should be familiarized with the conflict by being asked to compare The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women with a traditional anthology and come to their own conclusions . |
| 29 | But in other ways the core canon has shrunk , by being limited to the obviously fictive genres , poetry , drama , and the novel . |
| 30 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |