Example sentences of "[vb infin] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Woodcock 's paintings of all known cotingas are generously proportioned and The Cotingas is an inspiration to any adventurous ornithologist looking for areas of study where he might still contribute to science by straightforward observation . |
| 2 | Or they could return to election by MPs alone , a system belatedly accepted by the Tories , in place of their former Magic Circle . |
| 3 | Since they may only return to earth by replacing one of their number with a living child , mothers warn their off-spring never to follow the lights . |
| 4 | A GAMBLER who made a 1,000-to-one bet that Christ would not return to Earth by October is to sue bookie William Hill for not paying up . |
| 5 | But the Government today said the plans were too extravagant and the Council would have to cutback by £10 million . |
| 6 | Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen . |
| 7 | However , none of these secondary functions of business can lead to success by themselves . |
| 8 | He said that , besides reducing the tower 's elasticity — which may have prevented it crashing before now — the weight of the steel and lead could lead to disaster by causing the soggy ground to give way . |
| 9 | During this time approximately 1000 of the 1025 atoms of tellurium in the sample would change to xenon by double beta decay , and the xenon atoms could be detected by RIS methods . |
| 10 | I 'd generally go to supper by eight , and when we stick to these old-fashioned rules we shall make our visitors conform to them too . |
| 11 | In particular , helix III of GH5 , which corresponds to the recognition helix F of CAP , should bind to DNA by fitting into a groove , and the approximate face that GH5 presents to a duplex of DNA should be the same as the corresponding part of CAP . |
| 12 | He spoke of his belief in democracy and of the necessity that a Fascist government should come to power by constitutional means . |
| 13 | Maybe tonight she could get to bed by midnight ! |
| 14 | Circumstances and what may amount to encouragement by the victim may sometimes mitigate the offence and , particularly under such conditions , impulsive or specifically planned rape is no more than an offence — it can hardly be thought of as deviant in the true sense of the word . |
| 15 | The established papers could no more stay afloat by relying on their ‘ natural ’ constituencies than Callaghan and Foot could sweep to power by depending , as they did in 1979 and 1983 , on an imaginary clothcapped army of Labour voter-vassals . |
| 16 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 17 | The young wine , which had been delivered two days earlier from the cellars of a certain Monsieur Chapautier had been identified by Dr Davies , an admirer of fine wine and port from an early age , as having all the signs of a vintage which would mature to perfection by the 1993/94 conference season . |
| 18 | But he did bow to tradition by topping his wacky gear with the gown and a mortar board . |