Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worthy of mention in this review of closures and revivals is the widely applauded reprieve by Chris Green , director of Network SouthEast , of London 's Marylebone station on 30 April 1986 . |
| 2 | The ultimate aim was to replace a highly differentiated workforce by single-status , multi-disciplinary process craftsmen responsible for all appropriate ancillary , maintenance and quality inspection functions . |
| 3 | We had to take it in turns day by day to get this monstrosity going , or freeze to death , and the hours I 've spent wasting matches , holding sheets of paper against the opening to create an up-draught , blowing like a whale whenever a tiny spark appeared ! |
| 4 | They study for the CIMA 's highly respected qualification by distance learning in the evenings , topped up with full time revision courses . |
| 5 | This suggests that the subducted sediment somehow survived as a chemically and physically distinct region large enough to avoid obliteration by diffusion . |
| 6 | Reagan announced that MX missiles were to be grouped together to frustrate attack by missiles . |
| 7 | The amount left over shrinks by 16 p.c. to £12,734 which is just enough to cover day by day living expenses , as extrapolated from the National Expenditure Survey , without allowing for higher basic costs in London and the costs associated with employing a nanny . |
| 8 | As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison . |
| 9 | The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap . |
| 10 | Typically such constitutions are to some degree entrenched , that is , the constitutional rules are more difficult to change than ordinary laws , perhaps requiring approval by referendum ( Eire ) or special majority ( West Germany ) . |
| 11 | When everyone is being encouraged to have their say and chipping in , you can only have decision-making by consensus and that takes a lot of time . |
| 12 | Normally distributed data were analysed by one way analysis of variance or paired t test and abnormally distributed data by Wilcoxon 's rank-sum test . |
| 13 | Modular fuel tanks ( you literally switch tanks by landing , disposing of the empty one and clipping a full one on ) give the CIRV a five-hour maximum endurance and a range up to 250 miles , or fifty miles unrefuelled , cruising at 30–50 mph after a take-off run which can be as short at two metres . |
| 14 | The Committee of London & Scottish Bankers ( CLSB ) has been merged with with the British Banker 's Association ( BBA ) ( which has hitherto existed side by side with the CLSB ) . |
| 15 | Again , sentences only express propositions by virtue of specific contexts and a specific encoder within a deictic field . |
| 16 | Conforming with the regulations will only increase costs by 7p to 8p per passenger . ’ |
| 17 | A bailor has it against a mere bailee at pleasure even if he never himself had actual possession of the goods and only acquired title by virtue of an illegal but completely executed contract of sale . |
| 18 | Eventually these persons might have to face up to a period of crisis , of self-examination , and so achieve ego-identity by route C. However , foreclosure does offer an escape route and an individual might postpone indefinitely any real self-examination by clinging rigidly to his [ or her ] beliefs and values ( route D ) . |
| 19 | Obviously , such a current can not affect the transport of material in the swash zone , but it may greatly help transport by saltation and suspension in the breaker zone . |
| 20 | He would invade in the east , making no secret of his intention from Northumberland ; and Balliol , necessarily stiffen d by Lord Dacre and Sir Anthony Lucy , the English Middle and West March Wardens respectively , was to march in from Carlisle and Cumbria . |
| 21 | From this standpoint , the efforts of Schleiermacher and Ritschl came to be diagnosed as effectively displacing God by man , reducing theology to anthropology , resting on the hidden assumption that God and man were ultimately somehow identical , and thus failing to take sufficiently seriously the reality of God himself , the need for revelation , the authority of the Bible as the vehicle of his Word , the finiteness and sinfulness of man , and the radical character of authentic faith . |
| 22 | Just carry on multiplying things by X instead of trying to jump to conclusions . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , to ensure that the Germans did not rush reinforcements by rail to the threatened area , General Alexei Alexeievich Brusilov , commanding the South West Front , was ordered to make menacing probes in his area . |
| 24 | Six transplants were not given cover by HBIG . |
| 25 | Using steady state vowels , which do not convey information by means of distinctive articulatory features , no laterality effect was obtained . |
| 26 | And he did not promise government by principle ; a politician to the core , Mr Clinton prefers to work by consensus and compromise . |
| 27 | It is a duty not to cause injury by want of reasonable care . |
| 28 | Conventional double-glazing cuts heat loss by conduction , but can not prevent loss by radiation . |
| 29 | He comes from a family that does not do things by halves . |
| 30 | I had already seen pictures by Popova , Klyun , and other artists who were then totally unknown . |