Example sentences of "it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | As You Like It by William Shakespeare |
| 2 | Magritte did it by playing with paradox : day and night both ; picture and landscape both . |
| 3 | You can buy packets of it by mail order from HDRA Sales Ltd Tel : 0203–303517 |
| 4 | Much also depends on the seating positions and whether the pilot is expecting the extra ‘ g ’ and prepares for it by tensing himself up . |
| 5 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 6 | But he had written his book — the people in Glasgow and Paisley knew it by heart , nearly — now it was up to themselves . |
| 7 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 8 | I then drafted a statement for the management side and sent it by hand to Mellowes who was sufficiently impressed by this initiative to pop his head around the door an hour later with a look of something less than mistrust . |
| 9 | Maggie approached Godfrey and said over his shoulder , ‘ I made it by the pound cake method . |
| 10 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 11 | But the modern behaviourist and functionalist analyses of mind treat mental states as mere powers to produce behaviour : that is , they abolish the intrinsic qualitative content of mental states , replacing it by causal , hence relational , properties . |
| 12 | She tried to remember the Hudson River as she had travelled down it by train , and the weather seemed constant although she knew it was n't . |
| 13 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
| 14 | His dance throughout has its base in the classical vocabulary but MacMillan has coloured it by gestures from cabaret and vaudeville dance traditions , which serve to reveal not only class differences in behaviour but also genuine feelings . |
| 15 | It can be spoilt if publicans serve it by unnatural methods . |
| 16 | Adjusting VR2 gives a symmetrical waveform and you can do it by ear by reducing the frequency so that only harmonics can be heard . |
| 17 | If the academy can not itself produce literature , and if even criticism can be written outside of it by novelists , poets , and literary journalists , then what it , and only it , can produce is theory . |
| 18 | In fact the original eighteen poems of the Hardy sequence , ( in the Collected Poems of 1919 , he damagingly extended it by three extra pieces ) tell a story of the poet 's pilgrimage to his and Emma 's early haunts , matching the stages of the journey there and back to specific stages of Aeneas 's journey , in Aeneid 6 , to the abode of the blest . |
| 19 | It is the more remarkable that Pound in his letter to Williams should diagnose himself as suffering from a milder form of Eliot 's disease ; most of the time , alike in his life and his poetry , he seems to be denying it by strenuously over-compensating . |
| 20 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 21 | What could rescue the United Airlines deal is the nature of the buyout ; United employees will control 75 per cent of the airline 's voting stock , making it by far the largest employee-owned corporation in the US . |
| 22 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 23 | The Transkei had ‘ independence ’ imposed upon it by South Africa in 1976 as part of a broader scheme to brush the whole racial problem under the carpet by packing off the black majority of the population to a series of impoverished rural ‘ homelands ’ dotted around the country . |
| 24 | The Leeds said the plan to close 60 of its 481 branches across the country was part of its long-term strategy and had not been forced on it by the housing recession . |
| 25 | Computers can catch it by using floppy discs holding infected programmes , or from programmes copied off an electronic bulletin board , which is where it was probably first planted . |
| 26 | The Trick of It by Michael Frayn , Viking £11.95 . |
| 27 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 28 | British egg production had decreased because of constraints imposed on it by the ministry . |
| 29 | They would n't let me plug it by myself . ’ |
| 30 | The Institute of Statisticians continues to be deeply concerned with both the provision of adequate statistical information and the monitoring of potential misuse , be it by political parties , television , radio and the Press or any other vested interest group which might benefit from such misuse . |