Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Aznar has tried to combat them by promising ‘ rational change ’ , pledging to keep , for example , Spain 's restrictive abortion law . |
| 2 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 3 | An attempt was made to accommodate them by founding a Marxist League , of Socialists and PVO . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it is more advantageous for management to subscribe shares than to acquire them by transfer , because they may then be entitled to income tax relief pursuant to s574 Taxes Act 1988 if the venture fails . |
| 5 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |
| 6 | Surely these workers are provided with Health and Safety equipment and should they not be made to wear them by someone in authority ? |
| 7 | We are fortunate to have men of such commitment and expertise amongst us and we need to support them by our prayers . |
| 8 | Kinnock fails to meet them by a huge margin . |
| 9 | The good ‘ Rev. ’ attempted to pacify them by pointing out that the evening was a glorious opportunity to meet the players in an informal atmosphere , and to buy their heroes a drink . |
| 10 | like an attic ; who wants to frighten me by |
| 11 | I try to encourage them by saying it is my material they are using , which sometimes makes the person more nervous ! |
| 12 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 13 | Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents . |
| 14 | Long after Branson had moved his office to the houseboat Duende and was seldom to be seen by most of the Virgin staff ; long after he had ceased to know everyone by name , or even by sight , Branson himself would continue to refer to a special Virgin ‘ atmosphere ’ , barely perceivable to the outside world . |
| 15 | Blind , deaf , but able to smell ; able to find them by the food smell , even in this raging , wind-swept , rain-driven night … |
| 16 | We can not , at the moment at least , predict the values of these numbers from theory — we have to find them by observation . |
| 17 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
| 18 | Joseph 's special robe ( 3 ) : Joseph 's brothers saw this as a sign that Isaac intended to pass them by and make Joseph his heir ( see 48:21–22 and 49:22ff . ) . |
| 19 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 20 | But he used to buy them and send them down home by train , and we used to cart them by horse and cart from the station . |
| 21 | ( ‘ Every nation is to be considered advisedly , and not to provoke them by any disdain , laughing , contempt or suchlike , but to use them with prudent circumspection , with all gentleness , and courtesy . ’ |
| 22 | The striking point , however , is that instead of merely denying the charge , he had set out to vindicate himself by finding a scientific reason why the world could not be eternal . |
| 23 | I had the almost childish impression that if we kept within the pools of light everything would be fine but , beyond the flames , shadows lurked and powers even darker waited to catch you by the throat . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've no wish to argue with you , ’ said the young man , with the beginning of a smile on his lips , ‘ but I 'll be proud to shake you by the hand , Connor O'Dell . ’ |
| 25 | If you want to increase something by forty five percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 26 | So , if you want to increase something by forty five percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 27 | If you want to increase something by seven percent what do you multiply it by ? |
| 28 | One does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the word ‘ here ’ meaningfully . |
| 29 | Similarly , he seems to be suggesting , one does n't need to know something by acquaintance to use the expression ‘ in me ’ meaningfully . |
| 30 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |