The phrase "elusive by" is not grammatically correct or commonly used in written English
A possible correction could be "elusive with" or "elusiveness by." "Elusive by" could possibly be used in spoken language in informal contexts, but it would not be considered standard or formal English. Example: The idea of true happiness seemed elusive by the time we reached our 30s.
The logic of the move is elusive by Western standards.
But a novel about history, truth and guilt in modern Germany may be elusive by design.
Though an exact number is elusive, by now there are hundreds of children's books with New York backdrops.
Rohmer himself, throughout his career and even throughout his life, remained elusive by design, starting with his name.
Moments later he played an abstraction of the melody, his embellishments swirling in fast little eddies, elusive by design.
Painted between 1981 and 1987, as the artist suffered from worsening dementia, they are inviting and elusive by turn.
Since 2000, at least five biographies have been published: "The Forgotten Naturalist," by John Wilson Alfred Russel Wallacece: A Life," by Peter Raby; "In Darwin's Shadow," by Michael Shermer; "The Heretic in Darwin's Court," by Ross A. Slotten; and "An Elusive Victorian," by Martin Fichman.
One was The Elusive Moth by Ingrid Winterbach [translated from the Afrikaans by Iris Gouws and the author], and the other is Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk [translated from the Polish by Antonia-Lloyd Jones].
Finally, although ETS exposure also elicits signs of chronic oxidative stress, demonstration of a specific role of this mechanism in brain damage remains elusive, confounded by adaptive mechanisms and perhaps most of all by the underlying damage caused by nicotine.
JACK KENNEDY: Elusive Hero, by Chris Matthews.
JACK KENNEDY: Elusive Hero, by Chris Matthews Simonn & Schuster, $27.50).
