Example sentences of "done by " in BNC.

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1 It celebrates creativity amid doubt and despondency — creativity as energy but also as a duty , work to be done by man as it is the sun 's task to shine .
2 Obviously , sorting out the courses which are on offer can best be done by writing for the prospectus but with any application the question that will be of overriding importance is how you are going to finance your training .
3 The training should be done by the system supplier , with no reliance on outside agents .
4 This can be done by purchase unit , standard unit or a combination of the two .
5 Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine .
6 This is done by a quick and simple blood test .
7 However , if the tooth is knocked out completely , little additional damage can be done by fighting on .
8 ( This was done by those Jews who wished to make a Zionistic point , but it was not so shared by Leonard or his family . )
9 Pike , as I expected , confirmed that this was work which was normally done by the statistical clerks .
10 Once this is achieved — and this , it is held , can be done by some sort of physicalist theory of mind with strong behaviourist elements — then most of the insoluble problems of early modern philosophy disappear .
11 This was done by asking them to report the position of a dot moving round an oscilloscope screen at the moment of the experience .
12 When they are so wrapped up in themselves and their problems , and , they are so hard done by ?
13 To any readers who feel hard done by or annoyed please accept my sincere apologies .
14 Why is this not done by the manufacturer ?
15 I can only volunteer that this is done by designers who have an imperfect understanding of the nature and properties of wood , or who are literally prepared to risk it .
16 Some helpers will not undertake more than light household duties , and heavy washing , ironing and cleaning will have to be done by someone else .
17 In the case of a patient such as you describe , this can be done by providing community nursing care to the patient 's own home , by providing in-patient care or by a contractual arrangement with an independent sector home ( ie paid for in full by the health authority ) .
18 He based the latter on his research into Victorian and Edwardian ‘ salon ’ music and showed what can be done by looking into such highways and byways of music when a particular period atmosphere is needed .
19 This was done by a series of pas marchés each of which softly rose and fell through her feet from toe to heel .
20 On some units this can be done by rotating and will cause total failure .
21 New wood must be fine sanded and if an orbital sander has been used , it is essential that the final sanding is done by hand with the grain , otherwise small circular marks will be seen in the finish .
22 I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision .
23 The deal would have been done by now but for Venables 's reservations about playing two penalty-area sniffers together without an orthodox No. 9 to provide an aerial target .
24 Now the job is done by vast machines , which , with their great bulk and ponderous gait , resemble elephants travelling in reverse , the chute for the reject stalks hanging at the back like a canvas trunk .
25 At a seminar hosted by the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project last month , researchers and vendors could finally say with confidence that supercomputing in the 1990s and beyond will be done by parallel computers .
26 Such previously unimaginable impertinences must not only be done by the book : they must be seen to be too .
27 That will no doubt be done by the press , clearly bored at not having had a good scandal to get its teeth into for all of two months .
28 The dikes get all the credit for keeping the water out , but most of the work is done by the natural wall of sand facing the sea .
29 A dominant preoccupation in the sociology of policing is the description and analysis of the routine , day-to-day police work done by low-ranking policemen and women .
30 This is done by , among other things , the sharing of stories , exchange of gossip , and a friendly and very sharp banter ( at which policemen are very good ) , during which sergeants sometimes have to struggle to rise above the one-line wit and are often themselves forced to succumb ( on the use of rituals at the beginning of work in American police departments see Niederhoffer 1967 ) .
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