Example sentences of "[vb base] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH and American newspapers gave a favourable reception to the acquisition of the Boston Five Bancorp by Citizens Financial Group . |
| 2 | Always sleep by the guns , he said , and never let the men dig bolt holes , lest they become too attached to them when the bombs begin to fall . |
| 3 | ‘ Sleep by the fire , you , I 'm going to bed . ’ |
| 4 | Certain bush-bucks which , like spirits , sleep by day and move by night are similarly regarded as spirit-animals , so their flesh is forbidden to women . |
| 5 | When I 'm really unhappy I eat chocolate and raw bacon and sleep by the fridge . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Kind sirs , ’ Babushka said , ‘ why do you travel by night and sleep by day ? |
| 7 | The woods are lovely dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep and miles to go before I sleep by Robert Frost , Robert Frost . |
| 8 | Recent movements of the dollar and yen by contrast appear to reflect the absence of international policy coordination . |
| 9 | And you involve by making sure you draw the required visible response from the audience . |
| 10 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 11 | Eight minutes of swooning , swirling guitar crescendos undercut by a moody bass and an unrelenting drum beat with Salli 's near angelic vocals creating a lulling scenario , akin to reading a novel which stops halfway through . |
| 12 | ‘ Interesting place you 've got here , Mr Blufton , ’ commented the sergeant politely , awestruck by the amount of dosh the man had to afford such a place . |
| 13 | She turned her head without moving her elbows from their resting place on the window-ledge and gazed at him , too awestruck by her surroundings to feel defensive . |
| 14 | Amphibians usually lay their eggs in water and go through an aquatic larval stage as tadpoles , when they breath by means of gills . |
| 15 | The original double entrance doors to the booking hall had been replace by an utterly incongruous picture window as had adjacent booking hall and waiting room windows . |
| 16 | The statement cited the Dec. 2 massacre by the Army of 16 peasants , and the wounding of 24 others , in the town of Santiago Atitlán 70 km west of the capital Guatemala City , as " an illustration of escalating violence that continues to mark out this country " . |
| 17 | On the night of April 24-25 a reporter and a photographer from the Bogotá newspaper El Espectador who were investigating a November 1987 massacre by paramilitaries were found dead at Segovia , 700 km north-west of the capital . |
| 18 | Trial of police chief — Legal decision on status of foetus — Massacre by Sydney gunman |
| 19 | All of these hunt by day , and at certain times of the year they may take large numbers of small mammal prey . |
| 20 | Owls as a group hunt by night , although some species hunt by day as well , particularly in the early morning and late evening . |
| 21 | The Harpies are all almost-blind mutants , who hunt by sound . |
| 22 | The yonil always hunt by night . |
| 23 | The harmony of these underwater choirs is broken by predatory fish , which hunt by listening for their prey , and can even hear the sounds made by a swimming fish . |
| 24 | A zebra , or antelope , could easily outrun a lion , and lions must therefore rely on stealth and the surprise attack ; carnivorous dogs , by contrast , hunt by running down their prey . |
| 25 | pp. 177–83 Nocturnal birds of prey , though some species also hunt by day , with long rounded wings , short tail and feathered legs and feet . |
| 26 | In any case , such activity would be unlikely to distract the hounds because they hunt by scent . |
| 27 | Perception is that process by which the individual organizes an abundance of information ( stimuli ) into meaningful patterns . |
| 28 | Perception is that process by which the individual organizes the mass of information which impinges on the self into meaningful patterns . |
| 29 | As the situation is so delicate and as negotiations with the CODESA committees are currently under way , will he not — please not — do anything to damage that process by precipitate action on sanctions ? |
| 30 | The aim of LCA is to draw up an environmental balance sheet for a product or process by identifying its effects on the environment , from the winning of raw materials through to final disposal . |