Example sentences of "by [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment by cheque will be accepted if accompanied by a banker 's card ( see Chapter 5 ) and if it is within the limit of the banker 's card ( usually £50 ) . |
| 2 | For instance , an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment . |
| 3 | A referendum after 2007 would decide the future formation of the Legco ; however , any changes approved by referendum would require the endorsement of a two-thirds majority of the Legco , the consent of the chief executive , and the approval of the NPC standing committee . |
| 4 | ( Amendment only by referendum would make sense . ) |
| 5 | When two channel manometry was simulated by analysing only the recordings from two sensors ( 15 and 5 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter ) , the significant increase of propagation velocity induced by cisapride could not be detected . |
| 6 | However , division has a fundamental advantage , which is the reason for its good performance : no two records in any single section into which the key sequence is ‘ cut ’ by division can interfere with any other in the same section , because no two different numbers can have both the same quotient and the same remainder . |
| 7 | The though of adding several hundred gallons of water by bucket will not appeal to anybody . |
| 8 | Richard by contrast may well have exceeded his father 's expectations . |
| 9 | Psychological experiments on human beings , and comparable studies of chimps , show that these species by contrast can learn to adjust to some systematic distortions of the physics of the visual field ( Stratton 1896 , 1897 ; Kohler , 1962 ) . |
| 10 | If certain forms of history stress continuity , try to account for change , the history of science by contrast must be disjointed , for it is made up of a series of corrections in which the errors of the past have to be simply discarded . |
| 11 | Ray Reynolds has lived in the area all his life , both his bungalow home and the 250 acre farm he 's built up bit by bit would disappear under the reservoir . |
| 12 | Of these , two — Cobham and Stapledon — were strongly of the opinion that although the king could quash parliament 's judgement on the Despensers , annulment by parliament would be much more secure . |
| 13 | Moreover , if we were to attempt this , then getting an agreed set of principles approved by Parliament would open up conflicts as to the rights to be included , and if a new code was eventually passed then their existence alongside the European Convention would create confusion and cause additional difficulties for the courts . |
| 14 | An act passed by Parliament would be enforced by the courts , the courts recognizing no body other than Parliament as having authority to override such an act . |
| 15 | Laws passed by Parliament can not be challenged in the courts |
| 16 | ( d ) Laws passed by Parliament could not be challenged by the courts . |
| 17 | However , the obsession in the United States of withholding copyright protection from ideas including features of programs dictated by function might have the drastic effect , if taken to its logical conclusion , of robbing interpreter and compiler programs of copyright protection . |
| 18 | Concordances produced by computer may differ from traditional hand-made concordances in several ways . |
| 19 | Any proposal to pay by instalment should only be accepted by the haulier if accompanied by some immediate payment ; otherwise it has no value . |
| 20 | Under s. 2(1) liability for death or personal injuries caused by negligence can not be excluded . |
| 21 | Well you 'll have some more in by , by Easter wo n't you ? |
| 22 | Problems with a pattern made by CAD can be sorted out before detailed styling begins . |
| 23 | What pattern of output by industry might be compatible with the restoration of full employment ( in the range of , say , 3-5 per cent unemployed ) — and does this seem feasible ? |
| 24 | Only the military power conferred by industry could help them do this . |
| 25 | Third , debasement of early medieval coinage in western Europe and the eventual replacement of gold by silver can be attributed to the cessation of the flow of gold bullion from east to west with the abandonment of gold subsidies paid by the Byzantine empire to the barbarians in the west . |
| 26 | Thus a creature that hunts by daylight would waste its energy if it rushed around in the night when its prey was hiding in a burrow and , anyway , it would be poorly equipped for hunting then . |
| 27 | Before concluding this chapter a few remarks on the subject of doubling strings by wind may be useful . |
| 28 | Under these conditions the slight convexity caused by rejuvenation will be quickly rendered even less conspicuous by subsequent river erosion . |
| 29 | Travelling that far by car would cost £16 . |
| 30 | Villages now a mere half-hour apart by car could then be prohibitively far away : the daughter of an Essex farm horseman was taken to see his parents across the county boundary in Suffolk for the first time only at the age of 14 . |