Example sentences of "to work by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such are the present problems , Mr Lents believes , that it will be possible to persuade and coerce Angelenos to commute to work by train , bus or shared car . |
| 2 | All that could be done was to work by analogy . |
| 3 | Certainly at least one alleged aphrodisiac , Spanish Fly , is said to work by inducing an itch … and making people itch is just the kind of thing viruses are good at . |
| 4 | The sane constable rapidly learnt to withstand the pressure from his seniors to work by the book . |
| 5 | Still prefers to work by himself — a trait of which he is aware , but one that could make him retreat into a bubble when he most needs help . |
| 6 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 7 | Remember that anything that claims to work by means of spiritual powers needs to be looked at carefully . |
| 8 | During the UWC general strike of May 1974 , a key employee in the secretary of state 's personal kitchen at Stormont Castle had to be fetched to work by helicopter from her home in south-east Antrim . |
| 9 | It concentrated on talking the public back to work by exaggerated claims of the numbers of people at work . |
| 10 | But women tend to work by manipulating the threads , setting up a pattern to be woven , which may not be fully revealed until much later . |
| 11 | They are all , however , designed to work by the same physiological principles , and on this basis they have common components . |
| 12 | I tend to work by this rule : for a big painting I paint very thinly and a small one I use thick impasto , although of course the rule can be broken . |
| 13 | You may intend to get to work by car or bicycle . |
| 14 | The Founders and the closely allied management team , recently formed from the old executive committee and resolved to work by consensus , began to close ranks against Hayling and the intruding alien business world which he came to represent . |
| 15 | These in turn are associated with distinctive entry requirements , varying uses of qualifications in recruitment and career development ( where career development occurs at all ) , differing pre and post entry orientations to work by young workers and differential effects by age , sex and ‘ race ’ . |
| 16 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 17 | The government is hoping to tempt more people who are disabled or unemployed back to work by paying their benefits in an initial lump sum . |
| 18 | His style coincides with the inventions of designers — and has been put to work by Karl Lagerfeld , Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein , in particular . |
| 19 | As a writer on the early days of the Association subsequently noted , the movement tended to work by modes of informal " social lubrication . " |
| 20 | Dictatorial style The manager forces subordinates to work by threatening punishment and penalties . |
| 21 | He went out to work by day , conveniently , at a firm of accountants ; in the evenings and at weekends he made himself as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 22 | He preferred to work by night , producing his manuscripts in a small even hand ready for the printer . |
| 23 | Furthermore , many of the women and girls working at fruit-picking and jam-making were related to railway workers at nearby Cambridge Station and were brought to work by the 8.20 train from Cambridge in the morning and taken back home by the 6.34 in the evening . |
| 24 | Students are encouraged to develop their reference skills and to work by themselves . |
| 25 | A DECISION was being taken today on whether the 92-year-old Queen Mother , newly released from hospital , can immediately get back to work by attending her first official engagement , scheduled for tomorrow . |
| 26 | This is spectulative but not entirely fictional ; if it can be made to work by a combination of genetic and cellular engineering , it has amazing potential in gastroenterology . |
| 27 | Since CR-1409 did not interfere with circulating concentrations of the hormone , it seemed to work by receptor blockade . |
| 28 | 5-Aminosalicylic acid ( 5-ASA ) is the active ingredient of sulphasalazine in ulcerative colitis , and is thought to work by a local mechanism . |
| 29 | The next morning I was up and on my way to work by eight o'clock . |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't come to work by the way of the wharf walk this morning ? ’ |