Example sentences of "have [adv] [to-vb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 2 | One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing . |
| 3 | Naturally the monks of St Denis , who had most to gain by it , were happy to keep Suger 's tradition fresh . |
| 4 | The Communist Party had most to gain by combination with other groups , for with its strong discipline it could always hope to attract supporters from allied groups without losing many of its own members . |
| 5 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 6 | ( Hobson 1982 , Ang 1985 , Radway 1984 , Brunsdon 1986 ) Perhaps women have most to gain by refusing to identify with the implied passive reader suggested by the ideological model . |