Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | MI5 's initial task was to counter alleged German plans to secretly invade Britain by infiltrating thousands of spies . |
| 2 | The basic purposes of pruning are two-fold : first , to divert and concentrate sap flow and energy into the buds and shoots that will grow in the direction we want , to promote or provoke new growth from dormant buds , and to better utilize energy by removing growth that has borne bloom , will not bear more , and can not make worthwhile contribution to the plant 's processes ; and secondly , surgically to remove dead , diseased and infected wood . |
| 3 | Okay , A gives up two units of reproductive success , a food item to B. This benefits B by three units of reproductive success , whereas it would only benefit A by only two units of reproductive success . |
| 4 | As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison . |
| 5 | The system is peculiarly ineffective as the father must first voluntarily recognize paternity and the PGP can only enforce payments by docking money from the father 's salary if he is in steady employment in an urban area . |
| 6 | Even the greatest nobles could only gain admittance by sending in presents of large sums of money : ‘ whosoever gets enamoured of her gets sucked into the whirlpool of her demands , ’ writes Dargah Quli Khan , ‘ and brings ruin upon himself and his house . |
| 7 | In an intensely competitive world it is the " master-buyer " who has the power ; the " servant-seller " is weak and can only gain strength by providing a service superior to that of his competitors . |
| 8 | It is a matter of concern to many librarians and researchers that some of these universities , such as Cambridge , hold numbers of high quality theses , containing unpublished work , to which researchers can only gain access by personally visiting the individual university libraries . |
| 9 | If you do want to only mix flowers by correct season , you will have to take care when combining large and little flowers , such as daffodils and snowdrops , as the size difference seems even more pronounced once the flowers have been pressed flat . |
| 10 | One MEP has calculated that if you start with £100 in Britain and change this sum successively into each of the Community s eleven currencies , you would only have £50 by the final transaction . |
| 11 | When everyone is being encouraged to have their say and chipping in , you can only have decision-making by consensus and that takes a lot of time . |
| 12 | Birds can only change colour by moulting , and may have breeding plumage as well as a more cryptic pattern ; mammals tend to have fixed coloration , although man ( and woman ) spends millions trying to prove otherwise . |
| 13 | Selection will be primarily influenced by the availability of software i.e. the programs needed to operate the microcomputer e.g. if a microcomputer has an information retrieval program which is fast , reliable , user friendly but can only retrieve items by searching under one term i.e. a book or slide set on SPACE can only be found by entering the keyword MOON or the keyword STARS but the pupils can not combine keywords and search for all items under MOON and PLANETS , then this program and this machine does not meet the needs of the school . |
| 14 | Headquarters who 'd decreed that we would only get work by |
| 15 | This whole idea of a subsistence economy is something I 'm not really , I 'm not really sure about it because erm what , what would exactly , you 're saying that if everybody was the same then erm then you 're somehow necessarily going to be producing at a subsistence level so erm so er and so it 's , so if you can only extract surplus by effectively taking it off something given to others . |
| 16 | Although the borrower is expected to meet the obligations of the debt out of his general resources , in the event of default the lender can only obtain repayment by enforcing his rights against the particular security which is identified in the loan agreement . |
| 17 | Conforming with the regulations will only increase costs by 7p to 8p per passenger . ’ |
| 18 | ( Prof. Michael Pentz calculated that while a tenfold increase in power would only increase effectiveness by 4½ times , a tenfold increase in accuracy would give a hundredfold increase in effectiveness . ) |
| 19 | Nonetheless , whatever success was achieved within these programmes it was not enough to change the general picture of an agricultural system which could only expand production by having access to more land . |
| 20 | Obviously , such a current can not affect the transport of material in the swash zone , but it may greatly help transport by saltation and suspension in the breaker zone . |
| 21 | By then the ‘ monster ’ has gone through many transformations , unable to decide who he is or which of his many disguises represents the true ‘ him ’ ; but he can only find liberty by killing the father who sired him . |
| 22 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , these are conflicting properties , as a polymer with a high modulus and low creep response does not absorb energy by deforming easily , hence has poor impact strength . |
| 25 | We have already seen ( paragraph 7–05 ) that the time of delivery is normally ‘ of the essence , ’ i.e. if a delivery date is stipulated and the seller can not make delivery by that date , that is a breach of condition and the buyer is entitled to repudiate the contract and sue for non-delivery . |
| 26 | Using steady state vowels , which do not convey information by means of distinctive articulatory features , no laterality effect was obtained . |
| 27 | You can not stimulate success by a tax policy that penalises the successful and drives small traders bankrupt . ’ |
| 28 | The DC does not need assessment by a user ( other than the specified user ) , who manages a package outside the structure referencing one of the modules in the steering file . |
| 29 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 30 | The terminal valine group of both alpha and beta haemoglobin chains can thus undergo carbamylation by this nonenzymatic post-translational chemical process . |