Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] [pn reflx] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 2 | ‘ Frank has to prove himself by really beating someone in the top ten . |
| 3 | The BG-BASE system has to prove itself by being actively promoted to its target users . |
| 4 | Entry to the professional-managerial class depends largely upon educational qualifications , and the class helps to reproduce itself by devoting considerable effort to ensuring the educational success of its children . |
| 5 | I mean if you take the regulatory we did it with today that it consists of the Bank of England , the Securities and Investment Board , twenty four organisations of the S I B S , siblings you might call them er under it , the Building Societies Commission , the police , the serious fraud office , the Department of Trade and Industry , the London Stock Exchange , the Inland Revenue , five recognised supervisory bodies , all those dealing with er auditors and the others , it 's chaos er and nobody knows who is responsible for what and in that chaos you get overlapping decisions er er and conflicting regulations , everybody tries to ensure themselves by regulating too much er er and it 's a situation which drastically needs simplification , but we do n't have any proposals for strengthening and making that work er er frame work more effective , to back up er this er simple proposal today . |