Example sentences of "it be the [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the elephant by a nose |
| 2 | It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power . |
| 3 | It is the supervision by the court that is the main difference between a compulsory winding up and voluntary winding up . |
| 4 | Examples of plasmid transfer in the external world are well established ; for instance , it is the mechanism by which drug resistance spreads in hospitals or intensive farming units . |
| 5 | Its main action appears to be not one of erosion , but merely one of transport : it is the mechanism by which much debris is thought to be moved from the foot of the uplands across the gentle slopes that often border them in deserts . |
| 6 | In the one sense , the term is used to refer to the ordinary aspects of police work , in the other , it is the process by which police work is done that is described as ‘ routine ’ . |
| 7 | It is hierarchical , i.e. it is the process by which the managerial relationships of the institution are expressed and developed . |
| 8 | It is the individuation by demonstratives that provides a basis for a unitary system of spatio-temporal relations in which every particular has a unique place and in which we ourselves provide the main point of reference . |
| 9 | It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage . |
| 10 | It was the route by which Buddhism reached China , and down which Kubla Khan swept south . |
| 11 | It was the route by which the Turks could penetrate the mountain barrier separating the coastal lowlands around Split from Turkish-held Bosnia . |
| 12 | The Americans took it very seriously of course , it was the Company by then . ’ |
| 13 | Similarly in O'Brien in 1974 , it was the pronouncement by the court of a decree nisi of divorce which was held to revoke ‘ a wife 's implied consent to marital intercourse . ’ |
| 14 | It used to be said that it was the attempt by the Seljuks to prevent Christians from reaching Jerusalem which led to the First Crusade . |
| 15 | It was the attempt by the men to boycott these employers , energetically undertaken , that had eventually led to the collapse , through debt , of the Northern District Board ( the predecessor of the STA ) in 1847. " - In later years several of the STA 's " forward movements " , that is claims for higher pay or shorter hours , began in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was the attempt by American political science to construct a framework for the comparative analysis of modern , transitional and traditional societies under the guidance of structural-functionalism , that led to the logical inevitability of the bureaucracy , particularly in developing states , being regarded as ‘ multifunctional ’ . |
| 17 | It was the comment by a member of one kind of society on a quite different one , poorer , less directly governed from the centre , and therefore to be despised . |