Example sentences of "[adv] by [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employee therefore see his involvement in a union , or support for his union , to be the best means of securing his personal objectives ( eg. through extra pay or shorter working hours ) or the employee may consider that his own goals would be furthered better by loyalty to senior managers in the organisation and acceptance of the organisation 's goals . |
| 2 | However the effect of the report was determined entirely by reaction to the ‘ fear and apprehension … subculture ’ ( Feedback , 1984 , p.3–4 ) which the investigator claimed to have detected . |
| 3 | They will have to be slowed down by moderators to the energy required , and then guided to the instruments in which the scientists will study their materials . |
| 4 | Pentos shares were marked down by 14p to 56p on the day of the announcement ( Wednesday 30th December ) , wiping over £19m off the group 's market capitalisation . |
| 5 | Operating profit was down by 9% to $26.6m and net profit after taxes was down slightly — off 1.8% at $16.4m . |
| 6 | Worldwide underwriting loss down by $54.5m to $80.5m ( 1992 : $135.0m loss ) . |
| 7 | All the sales , service and administration staff came down by coach to Felcourt , and the service meeting was held on the journey one way and sales the other . |
| 8 | The gauntlet is being thrown down by Pemex to the international community . |
| 9 | That is they can be broken down by bacteria to inert residues . |
| 10 | At Sainsburys whole fresh salmon is even lower at £1.98 ; smoked salmon is down by £1 to £5.85 for 8 oz . |
| 11 | Perhaps by reference to rivers . |
| 12 | The determination by the material base having been displaced , the form of ideology ( distortion ) can no longer be explained merely by reference to contradictions in the material base although Habermas incorporates Marx 's critique of the commodity form of labour as ideology ( Habermas 1972 : 59 ) . |
| 13 | It is suggested , however , that corporate power can not be legitimated merely by reference to the rights cited by Hessen . |
| 14 | Moreover , they can not be accounted for merely by reference to spatial differences in social composition . |
| 15 | It is not good enough , therefore , to operate monetary policy merely by reference to what is going on outside the window on a particular day . |
| 16 | In a developed legal system the rules of recognition are of course more complex ; instead of identifying rules exclusively by reference to a text or list they do so by reference to some general characteristic possessed by the primary rules . |
| 17 | As there was no rail link between Scotland and England , almost everyone travelling from south of the border did so by train to Liverpool and boat from there to Ardrossan . |
| 18 | But this idea is not easily generalizable unless we suppose that the justification is achieved less by appeal to the pig than by appeal to the fact that there is a pig before me ; the fact , in this instance , causes the belief . |
| 19 | The Prince of Wales gazed in horror as a large , succulent goose was borne in by Heinrich to the dining-room serving table for carving by Auguste . |
| 20 | The prisoners were brought in by train to tumultuous shouts of revenge . |
| 21 | Coming in by train to Waverley I tried to identify with those tourists ‘ seeing ’ Edinburgh Castle for the first time . |
| 22 | The Kantian aesthetic achieves its meaning only by contrast to what Bourdieu terms an anti-Kantian aesthetic . |
| 23 | Sixty-six-year-old Yevgeniy , whose regular excursions on to the frozen river were interrupted only by deportation to Germany when the Nazis came swarming through Kiev , knows how to test the ice . |
| 24 | The value of this idea can really be judged only by reference to the value of the whole explanatory framework of ‘ indefinite ’ science , at whose basis it lies . |
| 25 | Some matters are no doubt decided only by reference to their intrinsic merits , others on purely political grounds . |
| 26 | Thus it is only by reference to a standard of normality that we can identify and respond to actions such as those of children and the insane . |
| 27 | It is only by reference to the contribution of ‘ environment ’ , both social and physical , to the spread of heroin use that conclusions might be drawn as to why heroin use reached ‘ epidemic ’ proportions in such a short space of time in the Wirral area . |
| 28 | Such a statement is analytic , whereas the truth of synthetic statements can be judged only by reference to facts of the world . |
| 29 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 30 | The mood of deregulation is tempered only by reference to the need to assure the public of the competence of providers of legal services . |