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Discover LudwigThe part of a sentence "contractor by" is not correct in written English
In order to use this phrase correctly, you would need to either specify what the contractor is doing (e.g. "hired by the contractor") or provide a noun for "by" to refer to (e.g. "hired by the city"). For example: "The project was completed by a contractor hired by the city."
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Ironically, he is a building contractor by trade.
Joey is a contractor by trade and a Tennessean by birth.
Mr. Nocerino, a contractor by trade, continues to refurbish the structure and repair and replace broken limbs and extremities.
A flooring contractor by trade, he thought he had the necessary skills and experience to complete his home.
Mr. Sannino, a building contractor by trade, had been making wine at home and helping out at Long Island vineyards for 12 years before starting his business.
"But you can hire an architect and contractor by yourself, and you decide yourself how your house is going to be and look like".
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We encourage all homeowners who live within the groundwater plume to have a mitigation system installed, either by our contractor or by other contractors approved by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
It paid contractors by volume.
She also accused him of "stiffing thousands" of contractors by declaring bankruptcy as a businessman.
Read from a novel, "The Contractors," by an Irish author, John B. Keane.
Contractors, by contrast, are essentially expediters who are disinclined to go outside the box for answers.
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