Example sentences of "by [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring down into her wide eyes , he concluded quietly , ‘ Although I think , Elinor Browne , that you would cause trouble by just being alive . ’ |
| 2 | I , I do n't really understand what you mean by just the I do n't understand what you mean by just being okay |
| 3 | ‘ But with his ability to cope with stress by always being forthright , decisive , honest , just , optimistic , assertive and enthusiastic , and aiming to win by insisting on getting things done , and fast , who needs socks ? ’ |
| 4 | We should by now be familiar with the general formula for decomposing data : Data = Fit + Residual The process of smoothing time series also produces such a decomposition of the data except that we mainly use the alternative , more suggestive form of words . |
| 5 | Poor little Sophie would by now be suffering pangs of guilt for her behaviour towards me . |
| 6 | It should by now be apparent that this recording is obligatory to all Handelians . |
| 7 | As will by now be apparent to the reader , recent discussions on the advancement of public sector accounting continue to stress economic measurement . |
| 8 | The problems with such an approach should by now be apparent . |
| 9 | The European Community should by now be used to such snubs . |
| 10 | Quite likely there would be those who travelled to the Continent in the hope of establishing family links though most of the original strangers ' would by now be dead . |
| 11 | The inference to be drawn from all this will by now be plain enough . |
| 12 | Even the least perceptive reader will also by now be aware that I will be talking about metaphor . |
| 13 | Even if Dáil members had thought otherwise , it must by now be clear that the ethos of the Irish Republic was still one in which it was impolitic to be in conflict with the church . |
| 14 | This , as should by now be clear , is a crucial distinction in this argument , for it underpins ( along with the public/private distinction utilised by Wolfenden ) many of the conflicts and disagreements over morality and the ‘ proper ’ role of the criminal law during this post-war period . |
| 15 | It should by now be clear to the reader that the purchase decision may turn out to be a highly complex one , subject to a wide variety of inter-related economic and behavioural influences . |
| 16 | It should by now be clear that the language behaviour of young black Londoners of Caribbean background can only be described with reference to patterns of code-switching , between the two perceived varieties " ordinary English " ( which in practice means London English ) and " Patois " , which I have argued is a variety of Jamaican Creole . |
| 17 | It should by now be clear that there is a great deal of difference between the way words are pronounced in isolation and in the context of connected speech . |
| 18 | He claimed at the Tory Conference , in a phrase that he must by now be sick of hearing thrown back at him , that he would intervene before breakfast , lunch and dinner . |
| 19 | Rose ate hers by the machines which by now were hungry fur oil . |
| 20 | By the middle of the Triassic , thecodonts were diversifying : many by now were able to rear up on hind legs , perhaps to catch insects . |
| 21 | For one thing , she had by then been convinced that she could forget Ven Gajdusek 's ‘ I 'll send Ivo for you … ’ . |
| 22 | The doctors are then faced with a situation in which the patient has made no decision and , he by then being unable to decide for himself , they have both the right and the duty to treat him in accordance with what in the exercise of their clinical judgment they consider to be his best interests . |
| 23 | In fact , Constantine 's attitude towards Christianity seems to have been primarily a matter of expediency , for Christians by then were numerous in the Empire and he needed all the support he could muster against Maxentius , his rival for the imperial throne . |
| 24 | Deddington is indeed a failed town which was founded probably a little before 1190 presumably because of its situation at the junction of what by then were important routes . |
| 25 | As the plane circled Dalcross Airport , I glanced eastwards towards Nairn Golf Club and a slight twinge of envy was cast towards the Clubhouse there in which the 8.30 am team would by then be well into their second gin and tonic . |
| 26 | St Andrews by then was all-go . |
| 27 | Yeah , what do you mean by happily being sarcastic ? |