Example sentences of "by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model is typically estimated by least squares and tests of the individual regression coefficients are based on the usual regression t statistics . |
| 2 | The slope of this line ( determined by least squares linear regression analysis ) gave a value for the crypt cell production rate in cells/crypt/hour . |
| 3 | Since I was unprepared , lacking a condom , she and I were endangered from two directions in another sense also : from disease ( for we were strangers to each other ) , and from a pregnancy desired by neither of us . |
| 4 | Though Mrs Poole , gentle-natured and tolerant , made up in part for her disagreeable husband , most who visited the Castle Street house were attracted there by neither of the elder Pooles , but by their son , another Thomas . |
| 5 | The fearsome overhang on the third pitch , which calls for the bold gritstone approach favoured by neither of us , caused further delay . |
| 6 | The scenes were acted swiftly in her mind : when Frere turned in bewilderment to Emilia the woman would deny that any such confidence had been exchanged ; accused of mischief , Louisa would be forgiven by neither ; the ‘ intolerable slander ’ ( for such it would be called ) would furnish a pretext for Emilia 's immediate departure from Munding ; and Frere , if he remained , would be friendless . |
| 7 | Apprentices could be sanctioned by neither , and in the general sense it is hardly surprising that resort to corporal punishment was so common . |
| 8 | The result would appear to be that either ( a ) there is no contract or ( b ) there is a contract , but governed by neither set of terms : in effect , an " open " contract , depending solely on the common law rules and any relevant statutory implied terms . |
| 9 | A third-minute try and conversion by ex-All Black Frano Botica seemed par for the course as Wigan , unbeaten by any British club in 16 outings and seeking a record fourth consecutive Championship , opened in fine style . |
| 10 | They did , however , start off with a flourish with two penalties by out-half Ricky Adair . |
| 11 | A snap drop goal by out-half Richard Chambers opened their account but Bangor restored their advantage with a good try by Don Whittle after McKinty had made initial ground and Strutt made the score 20 points to three with a conversion . |
| 12 | The Army ordered sentries to wear flak jackets and constructed many sandbagged emplacements , although most barracks were still protected by little more than chain link fences . |
| 13 | It is not immediately apparent which house this might have been ; however , the six properties are separated by little more than a hundred yards . |
| 14 | Although she was supported by little more than a third of the electorate ( or 40% or so of those voting ) , there seemed no prospect of ousting her from office . |
| 15 | Frederic W. Farrar 's Eric , or , little by little of 1858 is the often-quoted example , in which the boys show open affection for each other in a way that would be at least ridiculed in our own harsh world of emotional constraint : |
| 16 | They produce most satisfactory results , are relatively inexpensive , and can be located on the basic carrier systems shown by little more than a ‘ twinstick ’ mounting pad . |
| 17 | Most peace activists remained united by their continuing opposition to rearmament , if by little else . |
| 18 | To many scholars of the early Anglo-Saxon period the study of artefacts with a view to placing them into dated sequences is archaeology and is accompanied by little or no questioning of the basis of the method . |
| 19 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 20 | Norfolk 's and Rent 's adherence to Lancaster was motivated by little more than expediency , and when it looked as though he was not going to win after all they defected to Mortimer . |
| 21 | Hari had already got to his feet and little by little was becoming animated again . |
| 22 | The authoritarian family , on the other hand , is characterized by unequal inheritance and unbroken patrimony to just one son , by only the married heir cohabiting with his parents , and by little or no marriage between the children of two brothers . |
| 23 | However , this reason was offered by little more than a third of all temporary workers . |
| 24 | Between 1935 and 1939 , the last four years of Nizan 's membership of the PCF , his thoughts were dominated by little else . |
| 25 | How indeed , when Almsmead was so much better in every way than this creaking old hall and the Goldsboroughs ' possibly valuable but , in her view , horribly antique furniture which had come with it , held together , she often thought , by little more than the beeswax with which it was polished . |
| 26 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 27 | Once you 've taken the drug , your next decision could be influenced by that drug . |
| 28 | He rarely seizes the imagination by exhibiting the higher excellencies , nor does he captivate us by that originality which attends the Painter who thinks for himself . |
| 29 | But perhaps it is the paradox conveyed by that closing glimpse of a parodic but unprecedented Eliot which carries the sharpest conviction of any feature of the book . |
| 30 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |