Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Define the market with which it is intended to communicate by region , by product or by any other segmentation method .
2 Literary accomplishment was to be valued : all aspiring gentlemen were expected to know by heart the Gulistan ( The Rose Garden ) and Bustan ( The Orchard ) of Sa'di ; but more important still was grammatical correctness : ‘ In society the mirza should [ always ] try to guard against the shame of committing any mistake in conversation , for such incorrectness in speech is considered a great fault in a gentleman . ’
3 Not all customers are expected to come by road — new mooring points and landscaping on the neighbouring Grand Union Canal welcome any barges that may need re-stocking .
4 There are no formal rules of evidence and generally the parties are not permitted to appear by counsel .
5 As an implicated part of Capitalism , the trade unions must be expected to play by Capitalism 's rules ; and government by admonition is , as always , ineffectual .
6 In practice it was a straightforward piece of CIA terrorism designed to overthrow by force a legitimately elected government that America did not like .
7 I now turn to the adoption minutes of city hall and now it is a process of in that city hall did not endorse a recommendation from the finance panel , the budget that came from finance panel erm so we are in the slightly unusual position of having to debate the proposals of finance panel as we were recommended to do by city hall , erm that means as I understand it that er the chair of city hall will now present the annual budget statement erm and since he is going to do that in a form of an amendment er that seven other unusual features about the way in which we would normally do it which would mean that there would be er a budget statement and where there would then be the the formal proposals and amendments themself , erm so what I would propose is to try and make sure that everybody has , has maximum opportunity to have their say erm because no two amendments can be on the floor at one time er to take what the leader of the council said first of all erm then to allow the other two leaders to present their budget alternatives as it were , without it be , this is just not did n't take it at that point if they do n't want to .
8 Dementia sufferers might be expected to gain by day attendance in the following ways : i diagnosis and assessment of problems ii management of particular problems iii reality orientation iv skill preservation v general stimulation , socialisation and recreation vi supervision vii respite for carers In practice it is often the last which predominates .
9 P appealed to the High Court , contending that no part of his interest ‘ came to an end ’ within para 4(2) ; he had merely disposed of shares in Q. Similarly , para 4(2) was not deemed to operate by virtue of para 4(1) , which provided that a disposal of an interest in possession of any property was not a transfer of value , but should be treated as the coming to the end of an interest in possession , bringing into play para 4(2) .
10 Top management will be seen to lead by example .
11 It will be noted that no reference has been made to service by post ; the provisions in the Rules of the Supreme Court permitting the use of ‘ ordinary first-class post ’ or service by inserting the writ through the letter-box at the defendant 's address are not applied to service out of the jurisdiction .
12 If you have applied to vote by proxy and your application is allowed the registration officer will issue your proxy with a ‘ proxy paper ’ which entitles him or her to go to the polling station and vote for you .
13 If you have applied to vote by post and your application is allowed you will receive a postal ballot paper a week or so before polling day .
14 If ‘ they ’ can be made to change by education or compulsion , then the problem of soil erosion and pasture degradation would be solved .
15 The illusion of Television and some precise cueing by the PA must disguise the fact that all these props are being moved to order by stage hands hidden behind the sets .
16 We had decided to return by service bus in the other direction so as to complete a round trip .
17 She says today because I 've got the little boy with me I 've got to come by car unfortunately , but it 's far quicker on a bicycle and I do do it yes !
18 And er when I first came to the shop , the mo m A lot of them used to come by train and you know taxis or meeting and at the station and and away from Holyhead they used to stop by the shop for fruit .
19 When you had obtained a divorce a mensa et toro , you would have had to appear by counsel before the House of Lords for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii .
20 Here we report that human mutant cell lines that lack mitochondrial DNA ( mtDNA ) , and therefore do not have a functional respiratory chain , can still be induced to die by apoptosis , and that they can be protected from apoptosis by the overexpression of bcl-2 , suggesting that neither apoptosis nor the protective effect of bcl-2 depends on mitochondrial respiration .
21 Or were we trying to make meagre the devotions of minds which were helped to pray by colour and symbol ?
22 Section 120(3) makes it an offence for a promoter or participant to receive any payment or the benefit of any payments which some other participant is induced to make by reason that the prospect is held out to him of receiving payments or other benefits for introducing other persons into the scheme .
23 Many veterans have revisited Archangel and Murmansk in peacetime , but until now they have had to travel by air or overland .
24 The operators of plant are bound to discover by experience aspects of the design which could be improved .
25 Patients were invited to participate by letter and those who consented attended for outpatient review .
26 Scheduled to ship by year-end , the system will come with a price tag of $300,000-plus , and Eskernazi expects it to take on the the likes of Cray Research Inc and Convex Computer Corp .
27 ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’
28 ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received .
29 Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do by reason of a duty imposed upon him by law , whether by a Statute or otherwise : for instance , the duty of a local police authority to afford adequate protection to A and his property ;
30 Jean-Claude was inspired to compose by loss ; but because his desire for the past was stronger than his need for fulfilment in the present , his life and work were continually on the brink of dissolution .
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