Sentence examples for conventional by from inspiring English sources

The phrase "conventional by" is not correct and usable in written English.
It does not make sense as a standalone phrase and has no set meaning. If you are trying to say something like "conforming to convention (or societal norms)," you would use the phrase "in accordance with." For example, "He lived his life in accordance with conventional values."

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The current show of photographs by Emma Bee Bernstein is conventional by comparison, but quite moving.

Roland Barthes's great essay on photography, "Camera Lucida" — a book that greatly influenced Sebald's work — is relatively conventional, by contrast.

Their form and style are conventional by comparison with the concerti, but they contain many fluent, attractive works.

Of the three finalists in the competition — the other two were Ford and a Turkish company called Karsan — the Nissan was the dullest, the most conventional by far.

It says much for Goodbye to Language that Ari Folman's dizzy live-action/animation hybrid The Congress (StudioCanal, 15) looks positively conventional by comparison.

The summer has been so drenched with the unthinkable and the unorthodox that the de Blasios, married for 19 years, seem quite conventional by comparison.

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After an offbeat scary success with Shrooms, director Paddy Breathnach knocks out a very ordinary, conventional, by-the-numbers creepfest without any dark spark.

To compare the new method with the ASHRAE 110-1995 tracer gas method, both were used to test a conventional by-pass laboratory chemical fume hood under eight typical use conditions (comprised of different sash opening heights, thermal loads, and hood clutter).

In conventional, by-the-book Roman Catholicism, this priest is bishop.

But Trump has never been a conventional, by-the-book politician.

* Established by conventional cytogenetic and immunophenotype analysis.

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