Example sentences of "they by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shared information is the foundation of participation in decisions , yet as the number of people to be co-ordinated rises , the number of potential communication links , be they by computer , telephone , paper or in person rises dramatically . |
| 2 | Advocates of linguistically motivated courses like our own , became very familiar with the objection , overt or implied , that they spoke from ignorance of courses that they by implication criticised , and inevitably they sometimes did . |
| 3 | While these two possibilities are interesting special cases they by no means exhaust the ways in which the economy could respond to the shift in the aggregate demand curve that we have assumed . |
| 4 | I mean presumably erm when erm er you know when er when people fight religious crusades , very often they see themselves as er justified by a religious precedence of the past by the great prophets of the past or , or , or great leaders who did similar things and er they , they consciously justify what they 're doing do n't they by saying well you know we 're er we 're , we 're doing , fighting this crusade or , or carrying out this policy er and these are the historical precedences . |
| 5 | Without conceding that the gentry of Tula , Smolensk , and elsewhere were justified in calling for an assembly which would give them a chance to vent their spleen , Alexander II seemed to be no less frightened than they by the enormity of the changes he had sanctioned . |
| 6 | They have they by law they have to . |
| 7 | And I just wondered are they by her bed that 's all . |
| 8 | Er had they by the time you were still at school come on to that new erm er system where you speak a lot more ? |
| 9 | We took 'em by surprise , ’ he assured the sheriff . |
| 10 | Now the tickets are four quid each , you can get 'em on the door , but if you 'd like two tickets , phone us on , we 'll send 'em by first class post , we need your postcode , give us a ring now , if you 'd like two tickets for the grand charity dance , modern , old-time and sequence featuring Phil , resident organist at the Tower Ballroom Blackpool . |
| 11 | Clive James , whose Observer column had made him the doyen of television critics in the Seventies , wrote ; ‘ One has been kept from previous series of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em by its awful title , but it is time to say what everybody is saying-that the show is a must . |
| 12 | He 'd only played a couple of games for 'em by then . |
| 13 | Though it must be remembered that this is no a priori scheme imposed upon the appearances , but rather an interpretation gradually distilled from them by prolonged contemplation . |
| 14 | In the fine and fairly straight title-story of the first collection , a well-to-do Jewish family expels a poor boy to whom they feel they have been ‘ nice ’ and who has repaid them by sleeping with their daughter . |
| 15 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 16 | This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous . |
| 17 | Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue . |
| 18 | ‘ Constable Bewman here pointed out that each guest had their plate handed to them by Edith but I ca n't see how that would give the murderer any scope . ’ |
| 19 | Marina always wrapped things so you did n't want to spoil them by opening . |
| 20 | But the Foss men were famously militant , they had been ever since a young minister with lordly tastes and little scholarship had been foisted on them by the laird twelve years before and they had first boycotted him , then run him down the road on a cart . |
| 21 | Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach . |
| 22 | Learning them by heart as if they were magic signs . |
| 23 | There is a sort of joy in persuading the English you are the right person for them by dancing like a stoned Russian . |
| 24 | This register lists them by serial number , price , type of lathe , date sold and to whom . |
| 25 | However , we do want to get rid of they ( otherwise the house soon gets full of unsold turnery ! ) , so we price them by our own standards — which may well include a look at what the competition is charging and the ‘ finger in the wind ’ which Hugh decries . |
| 26 | Noverre distinguished his dancers by their particular physiques and personalities , whereas Weaver had judged them by their ability to act . |
| 27 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 28 | Fearful of the consequences of higher tea prices , the government has sought to stabilise them by fiddling the weekly Calcutta auctions . |
| 29 | MANY of the four million people prescribed drugs for mild high blood pressure could take smaller doses or live without them by learning to relax , Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin says today . |
| 30 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |