Example sentences of "[to-vb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To quote a price by rail is quite simple and to despatch by rail a matter of plainest routine , but it is not so with canals . |
| 32 | During the UWC general strike of May 1974 , a key employee in the secretary of state 's personal kitchen at Stormont Castle had to be fetched to work by helicopter from her home in south-east Antrim . |
| 33 | He went out to work by day , conveniently , at a firm of accountants ; in the evenings and at weekends he made himself as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 34 | The Founders and the closely allied management team , recently formed from the old executive committee and resolved to work by consensus , began to close ranks against Hayling and the intruding alien business world which he came to represent . |
| 35 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 36 | He preferred to work by night , producing his manuscripts in a small even hand ready for the printer . |
| 37 | Since CR-1409 did not interfere with circulating concentrations of the hormone , it seemed to work by receptor blockade . |
| 38 | All that could be done was to work by analogy . |
| 39 | Rather , in order to meet the requirements of fairness , there is a tendency to work by analogy , sometimes from criminal procedure , sometimes from civil , and sometimes from specific forums such as arbitration or the industrial tribunal . |
| 40 | Such are the present problems , Mr Lents believes , that it will be possible to persuade and coerce Angelenos to commute to work by train , bus or shared car . |
| 41 | You may intend to get to work by car or bicycle . |
| 42 | If , for example , the victim knew that the accused was trying to obtain by deception , but nevertheless gave him the item , the accused is not guilty . |
| 43 | McEvoy , of The Vale , Grove Hill , Middlesbrough , admitted six offences of burglary , obtaining by deception , attempting to obtain by deception , taking a car without consent and making off without payment . |
| 44 | Yousefi , 37 , denies two counts of attempting to obtain by deception , four of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , and five of obtaining by deception . |
| 45 | Yousefi , of Southfield Crescent , Norton , Stockton , had denied four offences of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception , five offences of obtaining property by deception and one offence of attempting to obtain by deception but a Teesside Crown Court jury convicted him . |
| 46 | Yesterday Yousefi appeared before Teesside Crown Court charged with two offences of attempting to obtain by deception , four offences of obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception and five offences of obtaining by deception . |
| 47 | Parvis Yousefi was convicted of four offences of attempting to obtain a pecuniary advantage , five offences of obtaining property by deception and attempting to obtain by deception . |
| 48 | He will try to obtain by force what he can not achieve by the correct use of the aids as taught by the classical school . ’ |
| 49 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 50 | Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 53 | I do understand the expression , to know by sight . |
| 54 | She did n't dare go in : he was such a light sleeper , and he seemed to know by instinct when his mother was in the same room . |
| 55 | " And I want to know by morning . " |
| 56 | The first stage of this argument , however , is to demonstrate the importance of regional and local perspectives on population and to indicate by reference of the lack of official statistics on local populations and migration , how little attention is currently paid by central government to these questions . |
| 57 | This was a blow to the defenders of orthodoxy , who had to stand by while refugee children from Jewish urban areas were shunted off to largely Christian rural areas . |
| 58 | Dunning ( 1901 ) left it unclear whether fascist demonstrations could be construed as a genuine attempt to convert people to a point of view or to provoke by insult . |
| 59 | The Natal Parks Board is to sell by auction five black rhinos in June . |
| 60 | Since he was not a natural captain he had to lead by example , and when the mighty deeds failed to materialize he was very much up against it . |