Example sentences of "be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if they are n't by Carver , then they 're by two close contemporaries of his who , on the evidence of the music itself , were comparably important composers — and thus they constitute even more precious evidence for the flourishing state of Scots musical culture in the first half of the 16th century . |
| 2 | Not for the normal reasons : that they 're failed creators ( they usually are n't ; they may be failed critics , but that 's another matter ) ; or that they 're by nature carping , jealous and vain ( they usually are n't ; if anything , they might better be accused of over-generosity , of upgrading the second-rate so that their own fine discriminations thereby appear the rarer ) . |
| 3 | But most of the women over there they , you could say they 're , they 're by the age of , of childbearing |
| 4 | ‘ We 're by no means sold out for every performance , in spite of Gesner . |
| 5 | Because in our field we 're we 're by far the biggest and the best in in terms of support and finance . |
| 6 | Y but yes but we 're by doing some form of sale |
| 7 | Alright , so there 's this interest in what women talk about when they 're by themselves and when Martha comes down , she wants to know what the men have been talking about as well . |
| 8 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 9 | Although the findings are encouraging , they 're by no means the complete answer to the problem . |
| 10 | They 're by on the fireplace . |
| 11 | I said and finding this out when you 're by yourself |
| 12 | I 'm by way of being a bit of an expert on the moor , you know . " |
| 13 | I 'm by the window and I 'd seen Pickerage make his enticing little way there just a minute before . |
| 14 | So I 'm not limited because I 'm by the lowest common denominator of other gateway approaches . |
| 15 | I 'm by contrast on a hardbacked chair |
| 16 | I 'm by the river bank an' I 've got four |
| 17 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 18 | But er , he he hopped on one day and er had a talk with him and so on and took my temperature and pulse and that , this , that and other , he said well I 'll call again he said , when I 'm by , but he never did ! |
| 19 | This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition . |
| 20 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 21 | Payment at today 's price may be by a single lump sum or by instalments . |
| 22 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 23 | EVERYONE I have spoken to about the New Zealand tour of Wales agrees that , if they are going to be beaten by anyone , it will be by one of the clubs rather than by the national side . |
| 24 | the need to expand when domestic expansion is not possible ( expansion in this case would probably be by acquisition ) ; |
| 25 | one happened to be by our client Paul Brady , and ‘ Private Dancer ’ was written by Mark Knopfler . |
| 26 | partly this was because the current account deficit appears much smaller in current ( 1980s ) data than it was thought to be by contemporaries ; mainly , it would seem , because the invisible position was actually much better than was then realized . |
| 27 | Only gradually did it dawn on those responsible that vigorous and determined nationalist organizations had grown up in the shadow of the Japanese , that these movements had flourished exceedingly in the vacuum left by the collapse of Japanese power , and that if the colonial regimes were to be reconstituted it could only be by force . |
| 28 | These priorities imply , on the domestic front , the attempt to maintain a continuing powerful role for the state , the economic dominance of a fairly small elite and an indifference to the welfare of rural peasant farmers , complicated as this may be by political loyalties to certain tribal groups . |
| 29 | This might be by parental design or due to natural events . |
| 30 | Until then , resupply to the front line units will be by airdrop ( parachute ) resupply . |