How To Use Come by In A Sentence
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Unfortunately, alternatives to bombing the North Vietnam were hard to come by.
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I will not be there with a £180 ticket to be biffed into kingdom come by some insane person on the end of a weighted rope - or falling off it - but good luck to those who come to brave the 2 chords of U2 at warp volume and other truffles of this cultural feast.
Bono and The Edge defend Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
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Problems of political obligation can only be overcome by participatory political associations which would allow citizens to create their own political obligations.
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There were snakes and spiders, as well as an old leopard who would come by.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were found in the hold of the vessel after being overcome by fumes from the engine.
The Sun
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How did you come by that wound in the forehead?
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When the shovelers come by, they shovel the bread, rats and spoiled meat into the sausage vats.
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A considerable sweetener that may be welcome by those who have pumped money into Rotherham but perhaps not by the paying punters who will feel cheated.
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I would have carried my burden more lightly, not been overcome by a spirit of seriousness and of shame.
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The great enemy is depression - this must be overcome by giving him as much help and support as possible.
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These problems can be overcome by utilising assembly lines ie moving over to a mass production method. 17.
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I'll come by the house and get my stuff later, OK?
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They were good blankets, of most marvellous thickness and warmth, and her pride in them was greatened in that they had been come by so cheaply.
THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
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However, this can be overcome by appropriate revenue-enhancing incentive conditions in the contract and the incurrence of monitoring and enforcement costs.
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When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
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She was overcome by the beauty and grandeur of the Assembly.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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9 And burnt his beastly heart to efforce her chastity. efforce > force, overcome by force (SUS); _hence: _ violate
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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We took him away, and cleaned him - the removal of vast amounts of dirt did quite a lot, and when the Godmother asked us to come by today, I finally bestirred myself to get out the acrylics, and poodlefake.
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The interrogating carbineer who is invested, during such preliminary enquiries, with quasi-judicial functions -- being permitted to assume the role of prosecuting or defending counsel, or to remain sternly unbiased, as he feels inclined -- desired to learn how he had come by this jewel.
South Wind
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I'm suddenly overcome by a surge of unhappiness and slump down on the desk, resting on my bloated belly, burying my face in the comforting but annoyingly podgy darkness of my arms.
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Data on the number of charities with distressed reserve funds are hard to come by, but insurance consultants report an increased number of groups seeking to "reinsure" their obligations with outside firms.
Donors Find
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As first-timers they all receive a formal welcome that begins with the spine-chilling wero (challenge by one of the local warriors) followed by a karanga (call of welcome by one of the local women).
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She was given a warm welcome by farmers at the championships and even tried her hand at ploughing with two Irish draught mares, owned by brothers Joe and Padraig Fahy, of Corrandulla, Co Galway.
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It's the same way I often have to leave the house when we have someone come by and clean for us - I feel guilty just sitting there like some imperialist overlord, watching them work.
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When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
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Her first feature, La Ciénaga, or The Swamp, exuded a fetid, toxic atmosphere: a film on the verge of swooning, overcome by its own unwholesomely sensual fumes.
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The accepted standards of political morality differed from our own; evidence is hard to come by and difficult to interpret.
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Baby boomers decide to "downshift" -- fewer CDs. more time -- have figured this out: Owen Byrd and Maria Lines of Palo Alto, Calif., a public-interest lawyer and an engineer, decided to cut their $100,000 income by $20,000 this year to get an extra day at home.
Are You Anxious? You're Not Alone
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Carruth's anguish is part of a common but little talked about consequence of the summer of oil: People overcome by stress and worry, who are having a hard time navigating a world that seems so different from the one they knew before the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20, sending waves of crude and tar balls toward the coast.
Gulf Oil Spill Well Is Dead, But Not Residents' Anguish
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Daily, books come by the cartload to Ms. Klausner's Atlanta home, putting her at odds with the mailman, the UPS delivery guy and her husband, Stan, a business analyst for the Army.
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• Details have been hard to come by about what happened when Rebekah Brooks, leaderene at News International, broke bread around Christmas with James Murdoch, head honcho at News Corp, and David Cameron, head honcho from No 10.
Hugh Muir's diary
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Come by at 1 PM if you want to hang out with a septuple-PhD.
Triangle Meetup Today - The Panda's Thumb
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But for once his famous ability to blend laughter and pain is overcome by the weight of his subject.
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Occasionally, her friends, all of whom are shorter, fatter, dumpier than she, will come by, have a few drinks at her place before heading out on the town.
Archive 2006-03-01
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He must have come by the back route, though I did hear the dog yelp.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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Even a demitasse of chicory coffee must have been hard to come by in Seneca, South Carolina in the last world war.
Elizabeth Boleman-Herring: Selling Mother's Louis Vuittons on eBay
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Farmworkers' wives and other family members often supplement the household income by making wreaths and garlands from the clippings removed in the shearing process.
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Two school friends have died after being overcome by leaking gas fumes in holiday accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was against self-will and worldly desires that he set his face; and these could only be overcome by personal conversion.
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I was overcome by an irresistible urge to cry.
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Month after month this process continued until new memories were gradually harder to come by -- descending on the bell-shaped curve until they stopped altogether.
Andrew Grove - An interview with author
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This may be helpful in a particularly high-risk area, where premiums are sky-high or insurance coverage is generally very difficult to come by.
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There is usually only a very light pressure to overcome, and the precise target shooter wants the exact instant of the shot to come by surprise.
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Both bask in a kind of bluesy dirty rock n roll that really is hard to come by these days.
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PROUD Army heroes are given a massive welcome by flag-waving crowds as they parade through the streets of a town yesterday.
The Sun
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Multiplying income by a notional 300% more than explained this organisation's good health.
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I was overcome by waves of nausea.
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The first of these follows the effect of high tax rates on the incentive to generate taxable income or to shelter income by legitimate means - tax avoidance.
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Sponsorship in a recession is not easy to come by, but he appears to be managing and this piece of good fortune will undoubtedly help.
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Another welcome by-product is increased self-confidence.
23 Steps to Successful Achievement
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The rest remains unspecific and therefore solutions are hard to come by.
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The word "kumbaya" is believed by many music historians to be pidgin English - and a transliteration - for the prayerful plea to God: "Come By Here.
News
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This can be overcome by adding a small amount of an illuminant such as kerosine, vegetable oil, or animal fat.
1 Production and Use
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This must come by the delicate interaction of her own willed effort and the creative understanding which Hilton calls grace.
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Their guests took advantage of their generosity, overstaying their welcome by several days.
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The second youth, probably seeking to rescue the first, was probably overcome by fumes as well.
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Now is the time to start searching and any unwanted saleable items will be very welcome by the organising committee.
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She fell upon her knees, her head upon her couch her hands clasped upon her head, overcome by anxiety and terror; and gipsy, idolatress, and pagan as she was, began with sobs and tremblings to ask mercy of the God of the Christians, and pray to Our Lady, her hostess.
I. The Little Shoe. Book XI
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She would come by nightly and he'd renew his plea.
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Cracking a nut open that way is sometimes called hatching, and that is how I come by the name of Nuthatch.
Burgess Bird Book for Children
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Two cops who found him also needed hospital treatment after being overcome by toxic fumes.
The Sun
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long-term financing has nonetheless been hard to come by.
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Respect has been hard to come by for the Syracuse product, who was touted as an underachiever in college is expected to be a tweener in the pros.
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Women contributed to the family income by taking in boarders and doing their laundry and cooking.
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In the end, Charles' robotic moonwalk was overcome by Anthony's jiggy jittering.
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They were given a tumultuous welcome by the defenders.
Times, Sunday Times
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He supplements his income by giving private lessons.
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They could have been even shorter, except encouraging signs have been so hard to come by for the Warriors this preseason.
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Silk screening was at one time an incredible innovation, but today it is very expensive, and also, high-quality serigraphers are getting hard to come by.
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You are making local schools selective on income by the back door.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wearing dark glasses, she had to be helped into a car as she was overcome by grief.
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As, by the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity; so, by being able to repeat the idea of any length of duration we have in our minds, with all the endless addition of number, we come by the idea of eternity.
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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I would have carried my burden more lightly, not been overcome by a spirit of seriousness and of shame.
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Not only are they horrendously expensive, but they are ridiculously easy to come by and are designed to encourage us all to spend more.
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Us romantic misanthropes are hard to come by, you know.
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At first I was sanguine enough to hope that, seeing how we slipped away from her, the lateener would 'bout ship, and return to her moorings; but nothing of the kind: she held on like grim death, her skipper, no doubt, being seaman enough to read in the increasingly-threatening aspect of the heavens a promise that his turn should come by-and-by.
Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
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They were somewhat difficult to come by, anchovies packed in oil are much easier to find, but I finally located some and soaked them overnight.
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They increased their income by raising silkworms and so on.
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We're finding reliable staff hard to come by .
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But sometimes jolly insights are hard to come by and the journals seem to carry little but news of cuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, open-source publications have become by default the conveyor to the public of information and analysis on what is really happening in the world.
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'Seven sailors had to be airlifted from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier after being overcome by fumes in one of the ship's toilets.
Archive 2007-03-11
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To be given all of these things, I mean people come by, and they feed me dry meat, bannock bread.
Across Montana On Horseback, Poet Hands Out Poetry
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They were found in the hold of the vessel after being overcome by fumes from the engine.
The Sun
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Funding to pursue research in fields like dendroclimatology is difficult to come by; these people are not in it for the money.
The Volokh Conspiracy » NYT on Hacked Climate E-Mails
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Change must come by negotiation, not by force.
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Where the Gloss is, If those plagues come by the insufflation of the devil, which do not defile the man.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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I slaked my thirst at the brook; and then lying down, was overcome by sleep.
Chapter 11
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A tendency towards rather flighty behaviour in the breed is being overcome by careful selection.
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But the truth is, sir, that the appeteezement has been coming on for three days or four, and the meat in this southland of yours has been scarce, and hard to come by; so, sir, I’m making up for lost time, as the piper of Sligo said, when he eat a hail side o’ mutton.”
Woodstock
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A taxpayer may suppress their net adjusted income by making charitable contributions under Gift Aid.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by.
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She was suddenly overcome by lethargy.
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Of those overcome by death and passing to another world, a father cannot hold back his son, nor relatives a relation.
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Accurate statistics are hard to come by, especially in a country where social taboos and threats keep many victims silent.
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There seems to be less of a variety of species now, but the cute chickadees still come by, picking their way through the seeds to get to their favorite sunflower seeds.
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But the truth is, sir, that the appeteezement has been coming on for three days or four, and the meat in this southland of yours has been scarce, and hard to come by; so, sir, I'm making up for lost time, as the piper of Sligo said, when he eat a hail side o 'mutton.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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The man who's sleeping upstairs is overcome by the smoke and dies of asphyxiation.
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And though I doubt not but it will be more fully done by my honourd friends, whom it 'did more di - rectly concerne, and have more pcrticuler knowledg of y° matter, yet I will here give a hinte of y* same, and Gods providence in preventing y' hurte that might have come by y 'same.
Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
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The engineer was working on the freezer when he was overcome by gas.
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Deals are harder to come by and that is not helping first-time buyers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I would imagine that firewood is a bit hard to come by on the Texas border. jennifer rose
The Pressure Cooker
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United States President Abraham Lincoln from childhood have an inferiority complex, he is overcome by self- deprecating self-esteem, develop their own self-confidence.
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Sue was overcome by surprise when Peter walked in.
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Slipping on a straitjacket of simplistic logic, we come to believe that the disorder must, or at the very least should, be overcome by an application of willpower.
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The old nationalist orthodoxy had become by then the domain of a few cranks.
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When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
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The dead woman had been overcome by smoke.
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She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions.
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He tried to increase his income by gambling only to plunge more deeply into the mire.
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All this Sir Launcelot saw and beheld, for he slept not verily; and he heard him say: O sweet Lord, when shall this sorrow leave me? and when shall the holy vessel come by me, wherethrough I shall be blessed?
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Even woeful diction can be excused, since, in the mad rush to expand radio, good announcers were not easy to come by.
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Summer vacation will come by and by.
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Write as though the Jung-i-Lat Sahib himself had come by stealth with a vast army outsetting to war. '
Kim
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Cheap organic food is still difficult to come by.
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Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce.
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Top Information about Home Management
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But sometimes jolly insights are hard to come by and the journals seem to carry little but news of cuts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Eighteen-year-old Jennie Whalley was overcome by carbon monoxide fumes while sitting in a car parked in a garage.
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Now, however, this difficulty has been partly overcome by so preparing the manganate as to prevent fusion, and to keep it in a spongy state, which gives very high results, and the substance being practically everlasting, the cost of production is extremely low.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891
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They make half their income by surprising people with enormous penalties and usurious interest rate changes if they forget to pay their phone bill one month.
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Pensioners who are short-changed by the benefits system could double their income by making sure they get what they deserve.
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She spluttered chaotically - her head racing as she was overcome by a volatile cocktail of heat and cold.
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He was supposed to come by last night, but he finked out for some reason.
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Minerva was almost overcome by the fumes of hair products when she recently visited her hairdresser.
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Clearly things cannot continue as they are, but a satisfactory solution is not easy to come by.
Times, Sunday Times
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He actually saw his car, and it looked like a snowplow had come by (though he hadn't heard it).
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She couldn't control herself and soon she was overcome by her grief.
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Most of the inJured were overcome by gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Army regulations prohibit public displays of affection by soldiers, and private hideaways are hard to come by.
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Immediately overcome by remorse, I lowered him to the floor and tried to apologize.
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In an industry where the ability to look good in a polo shirt and the willingness to sit through a weekend workshop and pass an unaccredited exam can lead to a ‘personal trainer’ business card, excellence is hard to come by.
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The tough waxy leaf cuticle may be problematic for impaling the epidermal cells of some plants, but this difficulty can be overcome by optimizing the shape of the electrode tip.
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Everyone is welcome to come by and have a free blood pressure check with the duty nurse.
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She was overcome by smoke and battled back to life from a coma.
The Sun
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These problems can be overcome by utilising assembly lines ie moving over to a mass production method. 17.
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(Luke and Acts were somehow separated in the textual drift we call the canonical process), which simply does not do enough work in light of the differences in the reception histories of the two texts; such reasons are much harder to come by than is typically thought; (c) Scholars who persist in identifying modern reconstructed readings of Luke-Acts with ancient hermeneutical reading strategies have likely not grasped the way in which the NT authors, early Apologists or Church Fathers actually worked with scripture and have, therefore, distorted hermeneutically the historical worth of their reconstructions.
Euangelion
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Sometimes, when nature, overcome by hunger, sank under the exhaustion, a repast was prepared for me in the desert, that restored and inspirited me.
Chapter 24
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A couple of strapping, self-assured young men come by, laughing and chatting as they haul their large 'wheelie' bags, like the ones the professionals use.
Archive 2005-12-04
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She used to supplement his income by sewing, but could no longer afford needles and thread.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was overcome by smoke and battled back to life from a coma.
The Sun
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Mr. Vuic hints at what's to come by putting us on the factory floor at the Zastava plant in the former Yugoslavia, where far too many workers "equalized" under socialism assembled the rebadged, tweaked Fiat known as the Yugo.
Post-gazette.com - News
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When rogues (or thieves) fall out, honest men come by their own.
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Boys from my class would take a break from intramural basketball practice and come by and point and laugh.
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Both been overcome by smoke.
The Sun
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One victim was so overcome by having to relive the terror that he broke down in the witness box and the case had to be adjourned to let him recompose himself.
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Sport deals in atavistic fear, a commodity that is otherwise hard to come by in the 21st century.
Times, Sunday Times
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And they said at the bank that it had come by a steamer that was delayed by bad weather.
Emily Fox-Seton
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Yet a troubling increase has come by way of the Black Sea, which borders Bulgaria on the East, and the Danube River, which forms its northern border with Romania.
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The other, in 1972, happened when a man was overcome by toxic fumes.
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Captive-bred birds are easy to come by now, but the time needed to look after and fly a bird is still a rare commodity.
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Ten emergency workers were rushed to hospital after being overcome by fumes from the chemical.
The Sun
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At the age of 13 he began contributing to the family income by taking jobs calling for artistic talent, such as decorating ceramic cups, bowls and vases.
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Technology, psychology and common sense was always a much more viable combination and one decidedly easier to come by than consensus in the chambers of Parliament.
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Sometimes we get in dangerous situations that can't be overcome by one person alone.
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I was overcome by the enormity of the situation.
The Sun
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Are you sure you can come by at nine?
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She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions.
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Most of the inJured were overcome by gas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mischiefs come by the pound and go away by the ounce.
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Also confounding the picture is the fact that many clock- and watch-makers supplemented their income by making silver and jewelry or importing goods.
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He tried walked down the street but he was suddenly overcome by feelings of aloneness.
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He made extra income by collecting alpine plants, something he liked very much.
Modern Literatures of the Non-Western World: Where the Waters Are Born
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Silver plants that look good in shade are harder to come by.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were snakes and spiders, as well as an old leopard who would come by.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the Arts Council's rhetoric of liberal synthesis, dichotomies are for ever being overcome by acts of sheer good will.
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She was overcome by smoke and battled back to life from a coma.
The Sun
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this money had been queerly come by
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He was then overcome by a terrible fit of coughing.
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The proposals have been given a broad welcome by green campaigners.
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Two cops who found him also needed hospital treatment after being overcome by toxic fumes.
The Sun
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Twenty unclimbed mountains, gaping crevasses, blizzards and temperatures plunging to 25 degrees below zero were just some of the challenges overcome by a Navy expedition to Greenland.
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Still my family are so overcome by this momentous event they have arranged a big party for me when I go home tomorrow night.
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It is likely, though statistics are hard to come by, that husband and wife remaining together in a very unhappy marriage resulted in high incidences of spousal abuse.
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Granted, gentrification is an obstacle but one that can be overcome by innovative ideas like urban cottages.
Redefining Self-Sufficiency « PubliCola
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Naturally, I was overcome by a childish urge to catch the system napping.
Times, Sunday Times
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A large obstacle in the form of a twenty-five foot wall was overcome by an easy ramp-chimney with a chockstone at the top which was bypassed using a foot-jam in a small crack.
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Two school friends have died after being overcome by leaking gas fumes in holiday accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Time rails against life's limits and proposes that they can be overcome by ameliorative acts like robbing banks.
Govindini Murty: In Time and Tower Heist: Can Robbing the Rich Solve Inequality?
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However, they also have problems unique to the Afghan business environment: local governments engage in price-fixing despite constitutional prohibitions, good land is difficult to come by due to corruption and squatting, and women entrepreneurs require access to business parks in this segregated society.
John Sullivan: An Economic Handover in Afghanistan
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Silver plants that look good in shade are harder to come by.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pox doctor's clerk knew all the personal details of the patients, so he had ample opportunities to supplement his income by blackmail.
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So the recent fall in house-moving business would have cut gross income by about a fifth and net income by much more.
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Salary sacrifice schemes allow staff to reduce taxable income by paying their companies for other benefits.
Times, Sunday Times
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In order never to be overcome by harm-doers, cultivate patience through mindfulness of the demerits of anger.
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Scores were getting harder to come by as both sides tightened up their game and Tinnahinch began to tire after their early hectic pace.
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Mr. Beauffet told me he was ordered to offer a glass of wine to the person who collected the income tax, and that the poor man was so overcome by a reception so unwontedly generous, that he had well-nigh fainted on the spot.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Is it because jobs in malacology are hard to come by?
Where are all the malacologists?
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The multi-million pound investment would come by attracting upmarket shops, housing and tourism to the town.
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On arrival at Hillsborough she was given a boisterous welcome by 150 children given time off school to greet her.
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The ones who were sick should really have come by ambulance and the others shouldn't have come at all.
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He said he thought he saw a yellow kayak and was going to help when he was overcome by the choppy water and "tumped" (Galveston dialect) over.
The Daily News - News
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She was overcome by despair.
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Fans say they are overcome by intermingling feelings of sheer joy and admiration when they finally get to see in the flesh the celebrity they have come to know from videos, photographs and articles in fanzines.
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She had a look that spoke for nobody to come by and her entire outfit was dripping with some sort of liquid substance.
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The new skin balm was welcome by middle - aged women.
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She felt almost overcome by a tide of relief.
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Pristine white beaches with beautiful bays are within easy reach, and although rooms are hard to come by in high summer, it is possible to camp on the dunes without incident.
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Those nondeceptive alternatives seem mighty hard to come by.
6,300 Dupes Want to Know: Why'd You Lie?
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I think that trying to find a major turning point of this rather one-sided affair is hard to come by.
