Example sentences of "[coord] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covered 1,429 industrial workers and supervisors in England and Wales who could vary their work effort either through working overtime or by producing more in piece work . |
| 2 | A further £312 million could be avoided with a little effort by either changing behaviour or by choosing more tax-efficient products which involve more detailed financial planning . |
| 3 | That is true , but in this picture the golfer has n't lifted his head and is going to top by letting the right side straighten on the downswing or by getting too far ahead of the shot at impact . |
| 4 | Only in areas remote from this authority , as in isolated mining settlements , or where the state was itself weak , as in the United States , could bourgeois masters exercise that sort of direct rule , whether by command over the local forces of public authority , by private armies of Pinkerton men , or by banding together in armed groups of ‘ vigilantes ’ to maintain ‘ order ’ . |
| 5 | Instead of asking whether the owners of the enterprise will become better off as the result of the firm 's undertaking productive opportunities , the accountant asks whether society as a whole will become better off by undertaking this project rather than not undertaking it , or by undertaking instead any of a number of alternative projects . |
| 6 | If a search for money and/or an avoidance of stress are two indicators of strong arousals from this goal category , then it is clear that some people can be motivated for long periods of time either by stress avoidance or by accumulating more and more money . |
| 7 | This may be achieved by using modules from the same Stage or by bringing together modules from different Stages as necessary . |
| 8 | We could , for example , on a personal level reduce the need to generate so much electricity by improving home insulation or by fitting more efficient and energy-saving light bulbs . |
| 9 | Please let me know whether this proposition is of interest either by writing to me or by telephoning either myself or my colleague [ NAME ] . |
| 10 | This may be had through two main channels , either by applying directly to the SIB or by applying indirectly through Self Regulatory Organization 's ( SRO 's ) . |
| 11 | It can be simply introduced , either by supplementary licensing , with a daily charge to drive in certain areas or by applying more sophisticated under-street and on-vehicle technology that would allow ‘ fine-tuning ’ of the charge according to the need to reduce traffic in particular areas prone to jams or at particularly congested times of day . |
| 12 | We can only augment the ABC with new letters in similar style ( as in the now outmoded 1960s Initial Teaching Alphabet ) or by starting again with a modern , simple , phonetic alphabet . |
| 13 | Hence , there may be little or no incentive for a low paid worker to strive for a higher income , whether by gaining promotion or by working overtime , if the welfare benefits previously received disappear rapidly as income rises . |
| 14 | But the Hodgkin Quadrangle has added a handsome and valuable array of buildings to the college stock , and this report ends by expressing gratitude to those who have helped raise money for it , and by looking forward to the celebrations to mark its completion in the late spring of 1991 . |
| 15 | By going global before its rivals and by investing heavily in managerial expertise , IBM launched itself as the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 16 | By bribery — all men are corruptible — and by removing permanently any so-called idealists who stand in our way . |
| 17 | In a sense , an ideal hypertext environment would emulate the way in which the human mind examines and researches information , not in a step-by-step , linear fashion , but moving in different directions and by jumping backward and forward within the information resource . |
| 18 | They had won , as they will always have to , against the odds , but they did it by capitalising on their best players , by utilising every ounce of available experience and by trying as hard as they knew how . |
| 19 | The soil is very fruitful ; there are corn , cattle and horseflesh in abundance ; and by sending away to Hampshire all the inhabitants not required in the fields one could have held out there several months . |
| 20 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 21 | But she did keep abreast of fashion eddies , for example by subscribing to the fashion trends and information service , Infovogue , and by reading as many magazines as she could discover . |
| 22 | We have simplified the competitive situation to a considerable extent , and by choosing largely family-owned businesses have managed to avoid questions of ownership . |
| 23 | We did it by being competent , ultra competitive , flexible and by taking fast , but informed management decisions and action . |
| 24 | ‘ The old mere needed deepening and by taking away more than 400 wagon loads of mud the average depth has gone from two to five feet , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Before 1962 he had attempted to modify it through at least five distinct initiatives : by sponsoring a political confederation of Western European states ; by proposing a restructuring of NATO ; by fostering a special relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany ; by decolonizing and establishing new connections with Third World nations ; and by pushing ahead with the development of France 's nuclear weapons programme . |
| 26 | It is generally supposed that while Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and such people wish to maintain the evangelical ethos , the younger generation of Peter Robinson , Jim Wells , Jim Allister , and others recruited through the Queen 's University branch of the DUP want to create a mass popular party by playing down the evangelical elements in the party platform and by pursuing more respectable methods of political action . |
| 27 | He said the yard 's remaining 1,800 jobs and more than 4,000 in companies which supply Swan Hunter were very much in danger and called on the Government to guarantee the remaining jobs by allowing the yard to complete the three frigates and by bringing forward future MoD orders . |
| 28 | And by using either lean-burn combustion systems ( where fuel burns in an excess of air ) or an exhaust catalyst , very low emissions of toxic gases are possible . |
| 29 | In the 1980s buyers thought they could raise cash flows by breaking up these conglomerates , by giving managers different incentives and controls , and by exploiting more fully tax breaks for debt interest . |
| 30 | And by working closely with manufacturers , they help to design own-label products that are cheaper to transport , stock and sell than cut-price branded goods . |