Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [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 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 3 | Worthy of mention in this review of closures and revivals is the widely applauded reprieve by Chris Green , director of Network SouthEast , of London 's Marylebone station on 30 April 1986 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The ultimate aim was to replace a highly differentiated workforce by single-status , multi-disciplinary process craftsmen responsible for all appropriate ancillary , maintenance and quality inspection functions . |
| 6 | The people are more expansive in their complaining , but their words merely combine elements by now all too familiar . |
| 7 | Echo claims to circumvent the problem of trespassing on Apple 's jealously guarded ToolBox by not needing it anywhere but on the target machine , which in this case Apple will provide . |
| 8 | Williamson 's Fire ( 1901 ) competently builds tension by running together the story of a man in a burning room and the fire brigade scurrying to his rescue . |
| 9 | They study for the CIMA 's highly respected qualification by distance learning in the evenings , topped up with full time revision courses . |
| 10 | Since then the serious pushing has taken place in Colombia where the cocaine cartels have literally ruined football by using Medellin and FC Cali as laundering centres for drug money . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Perhaps to resist manipulation by a cuckoo you need bigger eyes or a bigger brain , which would have overhead costs . |
| 13 | In England during the war , she literally committed suicide by refusing her food rations , thus expressing her solidarity with the starving of Europe . |
| 14 | The castle did not prove strong enough to resist attack by a Norse raiding force in 1230 . |
| 15 | They offered the essentially optimistic message that nature was strong enough to resist destruction by human agencies — the climax could easily be restored if humankind chose to set aside areas for conservation . |
| 16 | A MC clause obviously sustains collusion by creating an incentive for a buyer to report to a seller keeping to the agreement prices of a seller who may be cheating on the agreement , at the same time nullifying the effect of the latter . |
| 17 | This suggests that the subducted sediment somehow survived as a chemically and physically distinct region large enough to avoid obliteration by diffusion . |
| 18 | People only accumulate competencies by continuous assessment of skills they do in their day to day job . |
| 19 | They develop basically because the velocity of a stream diminishes fairly rapidly at its mouth , a condition which must have been accentuated during the Post-glacial rise of sea level : deposition starts , probably aided by flocculation of the finer particles where the effect of salt water is felt , progradation ensues , which further reduces the gradient and so increases deposition by a positive feedback process . |
| 20 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 21 | Reagan announced that MX missiles were to be grouped together to frustrate attack by missiles . |
| 22 | Compare it with a late kouros ( fig. 72 ) , a larger work set on a grave in central Attica , of one Aristodikos , and beautifully preserved through having been taken down and buried when it can not have been standing very long , perhaps to avoid desecration by the Persian invader . |
| 23 | ‘ Brian only buys novels by those men , and I have n't bought a book for years — not since Elizabeth David , I do n't think . ’ |
| 24 | The amount left over shrinks by 16 p.c. to £12,734 which is just enough to cover day by day living expenses , as extrapolated from the National Expenditure Survey , without allowing for higher basic costs in London and the costs associated with employing a nanny . |
| 25 | The language of section 20(1) ( iv ) ( b ) is wide enough to cover larceny by a bailee or part owner and embezzlement ; but it is a matter of dispute whether it does so or whether it is limited to those types of misappropriation , originally not criminal , for which the Act of 1901 was intended to provide . |
| 26 | In the 1970s they were eagerly offered loans by Western banks suddenly awash with oil riches ; in the 1980s the debt collectors have come knocking . |
| 27 | Last season Moseley only avoided relegation by beating Newcastle Gosforth in their last match . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Male model Hay , 22 , only escaped death by moving his head at the critical moment . |