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 | ‘ Sit on the table , ’ he said , ‘ and oblige me by not being sorry for yourself . ’ |
| 4 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 5 | The instructor should encourage the pilot to talk through his thoughts aloud to find out whether not using the airbrakes is caused by failing to realise the glider is too high or by not being quick enough to decide and act . |
| 6 | They were also handicapped as conmen by not being able to master the language so , after a few months , they landed back in England with altered names and appearances . |
| 7 | After that tour , Western Province employed both myself and Graham Gooch for two winters , which partially made up for the fees we lost by not being able to tour with England during the three-year Test ban . |
| 8 | It is much better to admit defeat and carefully transport your design to an expert , rather than spoil it by not being able to frame it properly . |
| 9 | ‘ Having let the side down already by not being able to give Wendy a baby myself , I did n't feel I could let it down further by refusing to let her try AID . |
| 10 | ‘ Having let the side down by not being able to give Wendy a baby , I just could n't refuse to let her try AID ’ |
| 11 | where the tenant occupies only part of premises , and therefore the landlord is suffering financially by not being able to let the property as a whole ; |
| 12 | ‘ Nurses everywhere are saying that although they remain loyal to the NHS , they are frustrated by not being able to give patients the quality of care they need . |
| 13 | The use of a scarce resource involves not only the purchase price but also the contribution foregone by not being able to accept other opportunities . |
| 14 | There is a question as to whether public life , she 'd be treated differently erm and also whether in fact journalist by not being able to do things that other people can do if they 're not writing a newspaper . |
| 15 | Our experience at our projects demonstrates that given the opportunity , lone parents , like any parents , want to improve the situation of their children by by working and by not being dependent upon benefits . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Poor little Sophie would by now be suffering pangs of guilt for her behaviour towards me . |
| 19 | It should by now be apparent that this recording is obligatory to all Handelians . |
| 20 | As will by now be apparent to the reader , recent discussions on the advancement of public sector accounting continue to stress economic measurement . |
| 21 | The problems with such an approach should by now be apparent . |
| 22 | The European Community should by now be used to such snubs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The inference to be drawn from all this will by now be plain enough . |
| 25 | Even the least perceptive reader will also by now be aware that I will be talking about metaphor . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |