Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] by way " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ practical grasp ’ of physical properties is not the same thing as the ability to articulate and reason about them by way of verbal symbols . |
| 2 | Field barns were built to serve land lying some distance from the farmstead , or which could only be reached from it by way of steep hills . |
| 3 | If Target is being acquired out of a corporate group , it is likely that its immediate parent company will wish to extract value from it by way of a pre-acquisition dividend paid under a group income election , as this will preclude any charge to ACT on Target and will not be a taxable receipt for the parent company ( see ss208 and 247 Taxes Act 1988 ) . |
| 4 | Against the woman 's express wishes , he lit a piece of paper and went into her bedroom anyway , and reported a ‘ bedstead of wood with heath [ heather ] upon it by way of a bed ; at the foot of which I saw some sort of blankets of covering rolled in a heap ’ . |
| 5 | According to the evidence put before us by way of affidavit , the appellants when served with the notice of motion had consulted their solicitor . |
| 6 | Members of the jury that 's all I wish to say to you by way of opening the case . |
| 7 | Only a rutted bridle track , where orchids still grow , led to it by way of a dilapidated wooden bridge over a stream ; the oak avenue which once lined the way gradually fell . |
| 8 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 9 | They have asked that we take that on , there is a report later in the agenda with detail on that , but as far as these papers are concerned that 's simply us taking over responsibility for the best part of two million pounds ' worth of spending which the health authority will refund to us by way of a section twenty eight grant . |
| 10 | He also talks about it by way of emphasizing his achievements : the fastest man in Europe , the most medalled athlete in Britain , the Olympic captain , the MBE holder . |
| 11 | Of course , Freud , to whom we owe this discovery , did not arrive at it by way of evolutionary theory ; on the contrary , he reached his conclusions by direct observation of adults and children and by a study of the psychology of human sexuality . |
| 12 | Subsequently , such authors as the Brontë sisters , Jane Austen , Oliver Goldsmith , Jonathan Swift and others of great renown were the apparent signatories of letters placed in the care of Mr Singleton and sold by him by way of his bookshop or through the hands of trusted business friends who ran seemingly dowdy or seedy little second-hand enterprises in shops dark and dusty . |