Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 2 | One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing . |
| 3 | Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought . |
| 4 | From published tables can be related to , and M w is calculated from the 90° scattering then corrected by multiplication with . |
| 5 | Extensive sheep pens at the side of the line at Rogart indicated that stock still travel by rail to the markets in the south . |
| 6 | It was a painful and upsetting divorce and I often felt completely swamped by guilt at having left my children . |
| 7 | The Communist Party had most to gain by combination with other groups , for with its strong discipline it could always hope to attract supporters from allied groups without losing many of its own members . |
| 8 | The author does well to illustrate by quotation from the Philosophie Zoologique Lamarck 's own conception of Lamarckism — and it is interesting that Lamarck 's first and second laws are by no means incompatible with Darwinism . |
| 9 | William was more eager that he should show me some papers he had recently received by post from America . |
| 10 | The expressed virus-like particles ( VLPs ) were purified by lysing infected cells as described above followed by centrifugation on a discontinuous sucrose gradient 30%:50% [ wt/vol ] in 0.2 M Tris hydrochloride [ pH 8.0 ] at 85,000 g for 3 h . |