Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm i it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who are made , made redundant , going to the company and swelling their balance sheets , while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 2 | We have suffered from the same thing as the other two er Abalance have said today of money being used from our surplus to provide for redundancy and erm it 's been exacerbated by money being available from the people who were made , made redundant going to the company and swelling their balance sheets while all the cost side of it comes out of the pension fund and that has caused a lot of ill-feeling particularly from the older pensioners who have seen years of inflation , when their pensions were not made up to the same extent . |
| 3 | The same sense of skill transfer dictated by recession is evident in the current exhibition at the RIAS Gallery . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it is worth noting that although the proportion of English-language material which had been obtained by purchase was small ( 4% , as opposed to 93% in the case of foreign-language material ) , because the number of items involved was substantially higher , in numerical terms these items — many of them probably North American publications — outnumbered non-English-language purchases by a factor of three to one . |
| 5 | What exactly the government did mean by freedom was hard to discern in the nineteen legislative Acts which together constituted the emancipation . |
| 6 | For , according to the prophets , ‘ he who by faith is righteous shall live ’ ; and the law does not rest on faith , for ‘ he who does them shall live by them ’ ( Gal. 3:12 ) . |
| 7 | Learning by heart was standard procedure in ancient and medieval education . |
| 8 | Let unc unc Apart from the top row of unc which by inspection is identical with that of A , we have here 12 equations ad 12 unknowns . |
| 9 | Eagles by contrast are soaring birds which rise on hot-air thermals appearing to balance their ‘ barn-door ’ shapes on their ‘ finger-tips ’ — the long primaries on the end of their wings which smooth the air-flow at slow speeds . |
| 10 | Morocco had no oil and Hassan by contrast was dependent on support from the Saudi and , until rather recently , from the Shah himself . |
| 11 | His speaking voice by contrast was pleasing , his diction in French and Italian excellent . |
| 12 | Three of the six lymph nodes affected by sarcoid and four out of nine of the lung specimens affected by sarcoid were positive for both M tuberculosis complex specific DNA and the sequence from the 65 kilodalton gene . |
| 13 | Where the words used by Parliament are obscure or ambiguous , the Parliamentary material may throw considerable light not only on the mischief which the Act was designed to remedy but also on the purpose of the legislation and its anticipated effect . |
| 14 | Such an intention by Parliament is possible . |
| 15 | Waiting time by specialty is meaningless as it conceals a wide variation among consultants ' clinics . |
| 16 | The concert by Prince was due to go ahead at Blenheim Palace last August . |
| 17 | Since considerable resources of time are needed to input a large corpus successfully , textual processing by computer is impracticable for many researchers working on tight budgets . |
| 18 | " What you mean by eviction is forcible removal ? " |
| 19 | No attempt has been made to establish criteria for distinguishing those cases where applicants might reasonably be expected to represent themselves from those where representation either by specialist lay adviser or by lawyer is appropriate . |
| 20 | Access by car is easy now , down a forestry road , almost to the edge of the loch . |
| 21 | Three degrees by research are available . |
| 22 | The period of registration for higher degrees by research is effective from the earliest of the following prescribed dates after the admission of students : |
| 23 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 24 | ( 2 ) A sale by auction is complete when the auctioneer announces its completion by the fall of the hammer , or in other customary manner ; and until such announcement is made any bidder may retract his hid . |
| 25 | ‘ A sale by auction is complete when the auctioneer announces its completion by the fall of the hammer , or in other customary manner ; and until the announcement is made any bidder may retract his bid . ’ |
| 26 | Section 57(2) goes on to state that a sale by auction is complete when the auctioneer announces its completion by the fall of the hammer , or in some other customary manner . |
| 27 | THE IDEA of transmitting signals by light is old . |
| 28 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 29 | The fact that consent was obtained by a trick or by fraud is irrelevant so long as the consent was given to the agent in his capacity as a mercantile agent . |
| 30 | The reason why a search of premises which is not authorised by law is illegal is that it involves the tort of trespass to those premises : and any trespass , whether to land or goods or the person , that is made without legal authority is prima facie illegal . |