Example sentences of "way by a " in BNC.

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1 If the action is sharp enough your opponent 's punch will graze over the top of your head , helped on its way by a fast rising block .
2 Output voltage offset is trimmable in the usual way by a pot between null pins , although this method does have the slight disadvantage that input offset is affected : 1mV of output offset change alters input offset by about 1µV , also altering output offset drift by 3µV/°C per 1mV .
3 Then she saw how the Oxo boy on the advertisement hoarding smiled and she realized that they had come a different way by a different route and that she was nearly at Mrs Parvis 's boarding house .
4 A leaning toward chemistry and chemical engineering was no doubt kindled in some way by a Mickey Mouse comic strip .
5 But he is hampered along the way by a girl ( Miranda Otto ) .
6 But that , of course , is not change , debugging or repair ( the very things Minsky was referring to ) , for we would be impressed in this way by a yogi who was not able , also and in addition , to change his digestive process .
7 The king held a council at Nottingham from 14 to 19 October 1330 , and on 19 October the king and a small band of followers made their way by a subterranean passage into Nottingham Castle , where Mortimer and Isabella were lodged .
8 Led the last stretches of the way by a guide using arcane local landmarks , they arrived at Dunvegan Castle in the later afternoon , and Johnson found himself much warmed by the reception .
9 The area was strictly functional , no frills and no great obsession with tidiness either ; crates of empty bottles half-blocked the way by a storeroom , and there was a bicycle under the punch clock .
10 Every animal is sent on its way by a sympathetic sigh .
11 A liquid , forced to flow in this way by a shearing force σ , experiences a viscous resistance expressed by where v is the velocity of flow along a tube of radius x , so that is the velocity gradient or shear rate γ , and η is the viscosity coefficient of the liquid .
12 ‘ It would be outrageous if this House were to be by-passed in some way by a nit-picking legalistic exercise simply to get round the political difficulties facing the Government in a situation where they are likely to be defeated on amendment 27 , ’ he said .
13 ‘ Instead of manufacturing sulphuric acid as a feedstock for our plants , we can use the acid produced in this way by a power station .
14 But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century .
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