Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're in the realm of sort of metaphysics then , it 's not maths any more , it 's division by zero . |
| 2 | Whether it 's rape by a former boyfriend , abuse by an older authority figure , repeated groping by a brother or cousin , or assault by a casual acquaintance , the emotional scars go deep and a woman 's life can be destroyed if she does n't get help in coping . |
| 3 | it well it 's it 's lost some it 's style by |
| 4 | Gloucestershire county council is being told to cut it 's budget by ten million pounds and is one of only three councils in the country to be capped . |
| 5 | Oh it 's shit by the way , do n't go and see it . |
| 6 | It 's time by the minus one , which bit 's on top ? |
| 7 | As it 's been noted in the previous conversation there is er a possibility of obviously dust from the i it 's spoil by the way not coal . |
| 8 | A new town plans to increase it 's population by fifty percent during the next five years . |
| 9 | It is dusk by the time the wild elephants reach the funnel and now the noise of the beaters behind them is so loud that they simply keep going — into the khedda . |
| 10 | But what is one to make of a solemn pronouncement in a Companies Act that ‘ an insurance company which contravenes a restriction to which it is subject by virtue of subsections ( 1 ) or ( 2 ) above shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years ’ ? |
| 11 | It is management by attrition . |
| 12 | For an alternative formulation might be that it is the hallmark of democratic government ( which is not the whole of democracy ) that it is government by consent , by contrast with other forms of arbitrary or tyrannical rule where the wishes of the people are ignored and their assent or support is not sought , or considered necessary . |
| 13 | A horse standing perfectly in the show ring , with its ears nicely pricked , may indicate that it is cross by pressing its lips tightly together , as if it is refusing some nasty-tasting medicine . |
| 14 | The situation is such that it is care by the community rather than care in the community . |
| 15 | ‘ If there is one company that can be said to have influenced British theatre in the eighties it is Cheek by Jowl … the effect of a Cheek by Jowl Shakespeare is to make you think about the play again . |
| 16 | It was space that lamed the prospects of a truly national economy ; it was distance by land that doomed the government 's expensive attempt to re-create , in the eighteenth century , a great wool industry in central Spain and hampered the creation of an internal market in the nineteenth . |
| 17 | It was dusk by the time she checked out of the Shelbourne ; night was approaching rapidly . |
| 18 | It was midday by the time Miss Danziger walked through the entrance of The Tamarisks . |
| 19 | The curtains were not drawn half across the window and so closing out the light as most curtains were wont to do , but were wide apart showing , of all things , a piece of grassland parched by the sun but , nevertheless , still giving evidence that it was grass by the strip in the shadow of the house . |
| 20 | It was noon by the time they reached Beaulieu , a smug little New Forest village at the head of the Beaulieu estuary , but Harry was too eager for progress to permit the halt for lunch that Mossop had enjoyed with Heather . |
| 21 | Mr Etyang said : ‘ It was death by misadventure . |
| 22 | However , before he could redpoint the route it was stole by Peak District raider John Arran . |