Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | All pupils will be taught to swim by the age of 11 . |
| 2 | A fourth example of a causal belief has to do with someone 's being taught to drive by a prudential instructor , whose car has two brake pedals , each moving the same single connecting rod . |
| 3 | The Eleven agreed to proceed by qualified majority vote on health and safety , working conditions , information and consultation of workers , equality at work between men and women , and integration of persons excluded from the labour market . |
| 4 | Do you want to go by train ? |
| 5 | I wan na go down town this afternoon , but I 've got no one to go down with , I do n't want to go by myself |
| 6 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 7 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 8 | Unemployment is rising , with the industrial sector expected to contract by 20 per cent this year . |
| 9 | However , ministers failed to agree by the end of June on a complementary Convention on External Frontiers harmonizing immigration policy . |
| 10 | What is important is that , having used their muscle to overthrow the power-sharing executive , the working-class loyalists failed to capitalize by creating an enduring political presence and more traditional loyalist leaders returned to pre-eminence in the struggle against nationalism . |
| 11 | Lloyd 's ruling Council would be halved under these proposals , which the Council agreed to implement by Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 12 | ‘ I intend to sit by you all night . |
| 13 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 14 | But women tend to work by manipulating the threads , setting up a pattern to be woven , which may not be fully revealed until much later . |
| 15 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 16 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 17 | To this hour we ca n't judge with any certainty whether they really intend to slip by us into Derbyshire or to march to Wales through Cheshire … |
| 18 | I may indeed want to stand by women living in less fortunate circumstances than I today . |
| 19 | Churchill , while being ‘ too much a man ’ to kick the PM on the ground , had agreed to send a letter to Downing Street demanding to know by midday on Sunday the exact position he could expect to hold in the government . |
| 20 | Several experimenters have maintained that chimpanzees and gorillas can be taught to communicate by means of artificial systems not involving speech . |
| 21 | Yet in the end it sold the site for three times the amount that the City expected to obtain by demolishing the buildings . |
| 22 | Define the market with which it is intended to communicate by region , by product or by any other segmentation method . |
| 23 | Schoolcard holders can go on the bus if accompanied by no more than four adults — if they want to go by train they must have an Adult DayRover ; a Family DayRover is for two adults and three child permit holders or one adult and four child permit holders with dog . |
| 24 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 25 | About one hundred women attended the conference but local women were conspicuously absent , forbidden to attend by their husbands who feared the power of women 's words , their wives ' innate feminism and the possibility of lesbian contagion . |
| 26 | Nevertheless the memory of his stricken face was somehow disturbing and made her feel guilty — a strange and unpleasant sensation that she tried to banish by taking a final look at her patient . |
| 27 | With increase in overburden pressure , more stress is placed on the grain to grain contacts and compaction starts to proceed by chemical processes . |
| 28 | Of the two free-standing colleges , Bishop Grosseteste is endeavouring to diversify by offering courses of general education not directly related to teacher training , while Matlock has remained essentially a monotechnic institution , offering initial and in-service teacher-training courses . |
| 29 | World wheat production is forecast to fall by 40m tonnes in 1991–92 , to 555m tonnes , according to the International Wheat Council . |
| 30 | Investment is forecast to fall by 6 per cent and employment by nearly 4 per cent . |