Example sentences of "[conj] by [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This amendment should ensure that there is a majority of elected members serving on the police authority , either by retaining the present two-thirds requirements , or by providing for a simple majority and they give two main reasons . |
| 2 | It may suit one of the parties at the time of the reference to exploit the uncertainty created by poor drafting , either by delaying matters by a construction summons ( see 8.17.7 ) or by insisting on a particular definition of the issue which is to that party 's advantage . |
| 3 | The tapes — genuine or imitation — can be obtained by mail or by strolling into the X-rated video stores of urban America . |
| 4 | The land speculator operates in two different ways , either using entrepreneurial initiative , negotiating time and ability but relatively little capital ; or by investing on a long-term basis with the ultimate possibility of substantial capital growth . |
| 5 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 6 | This may be done by deeming a certain level of turnover during any such period or by reverting to the open market rent . |
| 7 | Other fabrics should be closely woven , firm and colourfast , and must be stiffened either with an aerosol spray applied to both sides of the fabric , or by dipping into a liquid stiffening solution . |
| 8 | These needs are met by obtaining a particular resource or by responding to a particular environmental or bodily stimulus . |
| 9 | Clearly , you can not inherit a taste for it by coming from a separatist family , nor by living in a separatist neighbourhood . |
| 10 | Spokesmen for the insurance companies seeking to justify this practice have wheeled out a few explanations which include ‘ the client understood that by settling for a poor return on death his ultimate retirement fund would be higher . ’ |
| 11 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 12 | Note that by adhering to the subject-before-predicate principle , the translator of the above extract has had to ignore the principle of end-weight . |
| 13 | Thirdly , it has been suggested that by focusing upon the hard look doctrine issues concerning the merits can be more readily avoided . |
| 14 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 15 | Their last attempt on this difficult mountain was repulsed by bad weather , but he hope that by climbing in the post-monsoon season they will have better luck . |
| 16 | If lithospheric extension occurs primarily along such detachment faults rather than by thinning throughout the entire zone of lithospheric extension , then we would expect opposing passive margins to display a marked complementary asymmetry ( Fig. 4.19 ) . |
| 17 | More experience of the day-today work of committees is obtained by deciding the cost of a plate of soup on the Catering Committee than by listening to the high arguments of policy on the Governing Board of the college . |
| 18 | Using contrary approaches — by examining the work of popularisers such as T. H. Huxley and John Tyndall , and by looking beyond the superficial , anti-scientific statements of imaginative writers — she has revealed an intellectual and emotional agreement far closer than we have been led to believe . |
| 19 | This section will look at how this teacher involvement can be achieved , both in general terms and by looking at a specific example in detail . |
| 20 | It was a starry night that night , and by leaning against the cold window Boy could see the stars , not the stars of The Bar ceiling now , but the real ones . |
| 21 | Why did n't he know most things by intuition — and by listening to the other animals talking ? |
| 22 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 23 | The PDI , which staged the largest rallies , managed to stretch the limits of official tolerance by attacking " nepotism " in high places , a reference to the business dealings of Suharto 's family [ see also below ] , and by calling for the presidential term to be limited to two years , an implicit criticism of Suharto 's years in power . |
| 24 | We can begin to clean up our act by eating whole , fresh food and by working for a high-quality , environmentally benign food supply ’ . |
| 25 | It can be proved that he was the holder by examining the trade licence itself for the defendant 's name , by an admission from the defendant and by checking with the issuing authority . |
| 26 | I moved backwards and by standing on the low wall that bordered the towering yew hedge , I gained a level view of the kitchen . |
| 27 | We all like solving problems and by focussing on the visual we can present a class with a range of problems to solve . |
| 28 | It was as if by drinking from the cold spring they were hoping to appease some spirit of the place so that it would n't turn unfriendly to their studies ; but they could not settle as they tried to read and make notes . |
| 29 | If by submitting to the one guilt he could evade all suspicion upon the worse count … he is quite shrewd enough , I fancy , to make the choice and quite durable enough to abide it . |
| 30 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |