Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not matter whether a high-level language system is implemented mostly be hardware or mostly by software , provided the system hides any lower levels from the programmer . |
| 2 | For instance , an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment . |
| 3 | The snails will eat the foam , presumably for the microflora living on it , or perhaps by mistake . |
| 4 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 5 | We we we know one or two people erm more or less by face , not by name . |
| 6 | This suggests that human beings arrived on Earth more or less by accident , since no special feature marked off the Crustaceans as being ‘ fitter ’ in a Darwinian sense . |
| 7 | You suddenly come across something , and , whether it is er , medicine , mostly , or technique think , first of them one stage after another was invented , more or less by accident . |
| 8 | As it is , more or less by definition , an extra First World phenomenon , the question of the comprador mentality will be resumed in the next chapter . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'll manage twenty-five miles or so by nightfall , and that will bring him to the stream over there called the Carron , with a dozen miles of forest and boggy ground between himself and the main river-crossing . |
| 10 | Genera , sub-species , etc. , can succeed each other temporarily or permanently , and if permanently either abruptly or gradually by transformation . |
| 11 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 12 | For example , some countries — Spain , Portugal and Austria for example — appear to classify enterprises as public if they are owned 50 per cent or more by government . |
| 13 | Left ventricular ejection fraction , which is the most powerful determinant of recurrent cardiac arrest and death , can be estimated at the time of cardiac catheterisation or non-invasively by radionuclide ventriculography or echocardiography . |
| 14 | Infection may occur by one of three ways , firstly by ingestion of the L3 in the egg , secondly by ingestion of the hatched L3 or thirdly by ingestion of a transport host containing the L3 . |
| 15 | Sheltering under the banner , or figleaf , of ‘ agricultural development ’ is not a proper stance for those who make decisions or principle , by action or equally by inaction , on major conservation issues , involving important principle . |
| 16 | A limited company must be formed by the process of registration.A partnership may be formed quite informally , e.g. orally , or even by conduct , though it is wise to have a written agreement or articles , often called the deed of partnership . |
| 17 | Suppose , however , that I simulate or even by coincidence pass through whatever sequence of states is taken to be sufficient for the conscious episode of feeling the prick of the needle . |
| 18 | Generally speaking , one may say that apart from dispositions by will , a deed , i.e. a sealed writing , is necessary , though leases in possession for not more than three years at the best rent obtainable without taking a premium may still be made without a deed or even by word of mouth . |
| 19 | Long after Branson had moved his office to the houseboat Duende and was seldom to be seen by most of the Virgin staff ; long after he had ceased to know everyone by name , or even by sight , Branson himself would continue to refer to a special Virgin ‘ atmosphere ’ , barely perceivable to the outside world . |
| 20 | Hence the head in profile in his Prince of Wales portrait , ‘ a symbol either of Charles attempting to acquire wisdom , or of being watched continuously , in his everyday life — by the media , or even by tradition ’ . |
| 21 | Sometimes guilt is caused by other people — or even by society . |
| 22 | The Government govern not by consent or even by diktat but by spite — spite against the mining communities . |
| 23 | They had been annihilated by stealth , it was rumoured , or even by sorcery . |
| 24 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 25 | For Beccaria 's conception of punishing purely in proportion to harm done failed to distinguish between ‘ crimes ’ committed intentionally , under duress or provocation , or even by accident . |
| 26 | And when I heard that he had asked and been given leave to go forth to Longner that night , I feared he meant to escape us , either by absence , or even by flight , having seen justice might overtake him yet . |
| 27 | They no longer strike you however quite as ramparts because they have been planted with grass and shrubs and are in places penetrable on foot or even by traffic ; they are now a pleasance more than a deterrent . |
| 28 | Many of the writers who specifically talked of ‘ England ’ were connected with the court either through office , such as Fortescue , or even by blood , such as Bourchier . |
| 29 | Secondly , assay of acid base transport systems in one cell type in an intact heterogeneous epithelium can sometimes be achieved by selective loading of pH sensitive dye into that cell type , or alternatively by use of single cell fluorescence microscopy . |
| 30 | Secondly , its direct effect on sexual activity is such that a man may obtain an erection ( or a woman may become " prepared " for sexual intercourse by dilation of the vagina , protrusion of the clitoris and the other numerous changes which make coitus comfortable and pleasant ) with no physical stimulation at all ; simply by action from the brain — seeing and being close to an attractive member of the opposite sex , looking at pornographic material or simply by fantasy or " thinking about it " . |