Example sentences of "[adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The delivery of 304 by Pickfords in 1952 . |
| 2 | I think he 's Scottish by extraction , though you 'd hardly know it from his accent . |
| 3 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |
| 4 | NOx production is substantial too , but controllable by lean-burn techniques and catalysts . |
| 5 | Water feeds into the lower pool , slightly smaller , via a surface skimmer and a bottom drain — in other words , at two levels ( controllable by valves ) . |
| 6 | But in a more sophisticated sense it means that the level of unemployment ‘ is not controllable by variations in demand-management ’ [ ibid. , 96 ] . |
| 7 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 8 | Arbiter theorists have a comparatively complex outlook on law , which is regarded as a partly autonomous sphere of social action , not controllable by capitalists . |
| 9 | A key assumption is that the money supply is exogenous — uninfluenced by economic activity — but is controllable by the monetary authorities . |
| 10 | If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ? |
| 11 | Constant frequency clock circuits controllable by a start/stop signal are available as single integrated circuits and the excitation sequence generator of Fig. 8.4(b) needs only two integrated circuit packages . |
| 12 | The Circus Finale , taken from 1–2–3 by Nanette Newman and Tracey Boyd . |
| 13 | The Balancing Act , 1–2–3 by Nanette Newman and Tracey Boyd . |
| 14 | In 1864 a horse-drawn tram service started , followed in 1895 by an electric tram system . |
| 15 | established in 1895 by Sidney Webb with the aim of contributing ‘ to the improvement of society by promoting the impartial study of its problems and the training of those who were to translate policy into action ’ . |
| 16 | All four children escaped the repressive John household at their earliest opportunity , Gwen John in 1895 by going to London to enter the Slade School of Fine Art , then the most progressive art school in Britain . |
| 17 | Much work was needed to prepare enough radium to treat patients , but once it was made , it was a more convenient source of radiation than the apparatus , extremely primitive by modern standards , which produced X-rays from electric discharges . |
| 18 | They were primitive by modem standards and life . |
| 19 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 20 | — Now you shall see , but take this by the way — He came home this Morning at his usual Hour of Four , waken 'd me out of a sweet Dream of something else , by tumbling over the Tea-table , which he broke all to pieces , after his Man and he had rowl 'd about the Room like sick Passengers in a Storm , he comes flounce into Bed , dead as a Salmon into a Fishmonger 's Basket ; his Feet cold as Ice , his Breath hot as a Furnace , and his hands and Face as greasy as his Flanel Night-cap. — O Matrimony ! |
| 21 | She followed this by joining the Royal Shakespeare Company on tour playing Juliet and later repeating this performance in the Other Place at Stratford upon Avon . |
| 22 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 23 | You can do this by driving on a quiet , wide road with no traffic about , gradually increasing your speed and moving the steering slightly to produce a very slight weave . |
| 24 | Use the opening reverse punch to achieve this by advancing on a diagonal . |
| 25 | Professor Andrew Greeley extended this by drawing attention to the special sensitivity of the sufferers , by which they are easily hurt , which he found often resulted from an unhappy childhood . |
| 26 | Sometimes she did this by offering an incentive . |
| 27 | The reductive instinct is to explain this by reference to the generalizing capacity of the mind . |
| 28 | I will try to illustrate this by example . |
| 29 | She could tell this by looking at his back as he stood at the bar ordering more drinks . |
| 30 | They do this by tapping the vast resource of surplus old and new books in the UK . |