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By Whitworth's will, Christie was appointed one of three legatees, each of whom was left more than half a million pounds for their own use, ‘ they being each of them aware of the objects ’ to which these funds would have been put by Whitworth.
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By and will
By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.
By 1965, several or all of these systems will have been fully tested and their reliability established.
By sharing the load of important speeches with his colleagues, the president can develop a cadre of able spokesmen who will help to create a public perception of the university as an institution, something more than the lengthened shadow of one man.
By recognizing and helping Juniors get interested in the dog world, all will be helping to create future dog owners.
By accepted definition, a 1-ton conditioner will provide 12,000 BTU of cooling in one hour.
By and large, what happens to business as a whole will govern the relationship between demand and supply conditions in the capital markets and will thus determine interest rates.
By this same combination of the will and the imagination, each one of us can learn to portray permanently the kind of character we would like to be.
By seeing such varied places, both interesting and beautiful, you will become aware of the many different civilizations Rome has lived through, and in particular, get a feel of Renaissance Rome.
By mid-June, millions of Americans will take to the road on vacation trips up and down and back and forth across this vast and lovely land.
By July 1, six weeks from now, motel-keepers all over the nation will, by 6 p.m., be switching on that bleak -- to motorists -- sign, `` No Vacancy ''.
Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
By an auspicious choice of the parameter n < sub > 0 </ sub >, we will arrive at a contradiction.
By the terms of his father's will he received an appanage of Poitou and Auvergne.
By contrast, the normal vaginal discharge will vary in consistency and amount throughout the menstrual cycle and is at its clearest at ovulation-about 2 weeks before the period starts.
By default, the system state will be in either of the minima states, because that corresponds to the state of lowest energy.
By attempting to predict which branch ( or path ) a conditional instruction will take, the CPU can minimize the number of times that the entire pipeline must wait until a conditional instruction is completed.
By law, the vice president will succeed in the event of the president's resignation, illness, or death.
: By a mighty effort of will,
By attaining mastery over one's passions, reason, will and desire can harmoniously work together to do what is good.
By three years, infants will move further away from their mothers.
By Raoult's law, some of the target compound will vaporize ( in accordance with its partial pressure ).
By now the reader will have guessed that this process can be iterated.
By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".
By the year 1000, Fujiwara no Michinaga was able to enthrone and dethrone emperors at will.
By and Christie
By 1930, Agatha Christie found Poirot " insufferable ", and by 1960 she felt that he was a " detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep ".
She also appeared in ITV's Marple: Ordeal By Innocence, based on the Agatha Christie novel.
By a curious coincidence she also played Agatha Christie herself in " The Unicorn and the Wasp ", an episode of Doctor Who.
* Agatha Christie – By the Pricking of My Thumbs
This rather whimsical statement was one of only two times that Christie addressed a dedication to her readers, the other occasion being the penultimate Tommy and Tuppence book, By the Pricking of My Thumbs in 1968.
Their other appearances were in Partners in Crime, a 1929 collection of short stories ( each reminiscent of another writer's work ); N or M ?, a 1941 espionage novel ; By the Pricking of My Thumbs ( published in 1968 ); and Postern of Fate in 1973, the last novel Christie ever wrote ( although not the last to be published ).
By 1922, the brothers were so successful that they set up Christie Realty Corporation with $ 1 million in capital stock.
* By Design: A brief history of the Public Works Department Ministry of Works 1870-1970 by Rosslyn J. Noonan ( 1975, Crown Copyright ) Appendix XIV, The Raurimu Spiral by J. H. Christie ( pages 312-315 ).
By then Christie had picked up his scoring and had been a consistent starter for the Raptors.
While the novel uses elements of the supernatural that feature rarely in Christie ( By The Pricking of My Thumbs being a noticeable example ), the novel's denouement is similar to that of her famous novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd in that Michael is revealed to be a twisted, mentally unstable man who is also the murderer.
By The Pricking of My Thumbs is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in November 1968 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.
* By the Pricking of My Thumbs at the official Agatha Christie website
By and was
By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.
By now Curt was seeing clearly again.
By her eighteenth birthday her bent for writing was so evident that Papa and Mamma gave her a Life Of Dickens as a spur to her aspiration.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.
By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.
By this time word had got around that an American doctor was on the premises.
By our policy the West was -- is -- split.
By the time he was under the covers he had forgotten about seeing Kate.
By the time he was prosperous enough -- his goals were high -- he was bald and afraid of women.
By late afternoon the train inched into the marshaling yards in the railhead at Lublin, which was filled with lines of cars poised to pour the tools of war to the Russian front.
By odd coincidence, on the evening of her return Shelley chose to read Parisina, which was the latest of the titled poet's successes.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
By this method it was determined that the normal pressure exerted by a sample of polybutene ( molecular weight reported to be 770 ) was over half an atmosphere.
By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.
By Nov. 8, 1958, weakness, specifically involving the pelvic and thigh musculature, was pronounced, and a common complaint was `` difficulty in stepping up on to curbs ''.
Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.
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