Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research is based on the belief that one of the most practical ways of improving the effectiveness of Board-level thinking is by the increased use of the strategic decision support tools and methodologies now available and being developed . |
| 2 | The script is by the Irish director Jim Sheridan , who started the ball rolling with ‘ My Left Foot ’ and ‘ The Field ’ and it stars Ireland 's most internationally renowned leading man , Gabriel Byrne . |
| 3 | The facade of Eagle Warehouse is by the Glasgow architect Alexander Kirkland , who built the pedestrian suspension bridge over the Clyde at Carlton Place and became Chicago 's Commissioner of Public Buildings in 1877 . |
| 4 | A third search criterion is by the use of a group of additives . |
| 5 | But if such performance involves an action within the scope of his employment affecting persons outside the building society , then such action is by the building society . |
| 6 | The work is by the slave to the sanctuary . |
| 7 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 8 | Yes mm child 's by the size of it . |
| 9 | Setting up for cutting is by the conventional depth and angle adjusters . |
| 10 | The exit is by the ladies and usually blocked with beer crates . ’ |
| 11 | The new code , while retaining the preliminary breathalyser test , provides that the normal method to be adopted at a police station in order to determine the amount of alcohol in the driver 's body is by the provision by him of two specimens of breath for analysis by means of the approved device known as the intoximeter . |
| 12 | She contained it and gave no sign , for she was enlarged , as the night is by the moon . |
| 13 | The procedure is by the holder of the licence or the club giving notice of application of the section to the premises , the notice specifying the date it is intended to apply the section to the premises ( subs . |
| 14 | Apparently the engine is so smooth that if one cylinder stops working due to an engine fault the only real way of identifying it , particularly during the cruise is by the lack of cylinder head temperature . |
| 15 | ‘ This phone 's by the door — there are people at tables nearby , people coming and going . |
| 16 | In the Liberal party , selection is by the local party also , with the national party maintaining an approved list of candidates . |
| 17 | Transport to Entlebuch railway station is by the line Bern-Langnau-Luzern ( or Thun-Konolfingen-luzern ) Then a postbus from Entlebuch ( Official Timetable No 460.75 ) takes walkers well up the Entlen valley beyond Entlenmatt , leaving them with a 6km ( 3 ½miles ) ascent to walk to the pass . |
| 18 | ‘ Pot 's by the bed if you wants it . ’ |
| 19 | The normal exercise of political authority is by the making of laws and legally binding orders . |
| 20 | CD processing is by the latest set of standard Philips disc management and Bitsteam integrated circuits . |
| 21 | You aye think the only way out of trouble is by the sword ! ’ |
| 22 | Oakeshott , for example , indicates that the only relevant criticism within a mode is by the methods of that mode . |
| 23 | Another pathway of H disposal is by the activities of acetogenic bacteria , which also grow in the colon . |
| 24 | The concert is by the Ted Heath Band and it 's a gala concert at the Royal Centre in Nottingham on Friday November the twelfth because in attendance will be Mrs Moira Heath , Ted 's widow er Jack Parnell will be on drums , Kenny Baker on trumpet and one of the country 's great song stylists will be the guest singer . |
| 25 | The most convenient method is by the addition of excess barium chloride and back titration with EDTA , as in the determination of hardness . |
| 26 | A cup from Locri ( fig. 111 ) with a satyr attacking an unperturbed maenad is by the Pistoxenos Painter , whose career seems to begin about the time of the Persian invasion , and one of whose earliest cups is the last to bear the name of Euphronios as potter . |
| 27 | My surname 's by the way Jo . |
| 28 | More than 21 per cent of spending is by the top 10 per cent by income . |
| 29 | The mode of infection is by the mother 's blood , which contains treponemes . |
| 30 | Ease of use , Mr Rosenbaum admits , still requires some work but ‘ we are working hard to establish a common ‘ log off ’ — important where billing is by the minute ! |