Example sentences of "[conj] by [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obtain an appropriate claim form ( e.g. baggage/money or medical expenses ) by either telephoning Norwich Union on 0603 683924 ( 24-hour answering machine ) , or on 0603 683195 , or by writing to the Norwich Union clearing stating that you travelled with HCI at : TRAVEL CLAIMS , NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY LTD. , P.O. |
| 2 | Full details and written quotation of credit terms available can be obtained from any Midland branch or by writing to the address shown on the back page . |
| 3 | This may be done by deeming a certain level of turnover during any such period or by reverting to the open market rent . |
| 4 | Thus emphasis on reminiscence sensitively developed ( Coleman , 1986 ) and oral history are all part of a recognition that by listening to the memories and past experience of an elderly person we are validating the unique worth of that individual , the contribution made to society . |
| 5 | Note that by adhering to the subject-before-predicate principle , the translator of the above extract has had to ignore the principle of end-weight . |
| 6 | Wells replied that he was a busy man and that by going to the police he considered that he had discharged his public duty . |
| 7 | We hope that by talking to the person who assessed your needs , you will reach an agreement about the way ahead . |
| 8 | Taking a step forward , she saw that by crossing to the side of the compound and climbing the fence she would be able to get back round to the entrance . |
| 9 | Soon species appeared which could fill their air-bags by diffusing gas into them from the blood rather than by rising to the surface and swallowing air . |
| 10 | More experience of the day-today work of committees is obtained by deciding the cost of a plate of soup on the Catering Committee than by listening to the high arguments of policy on the Governing Board of the college . |
| 11 | Why did n't he know most things by intuition — and by listening to the other animals talking ? |
| 12 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 13 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 14 | Associates become full members by nomination and by presenting to the selection committee three original works for assessment after at least six months . |
| 15 | If by submitting to the one guilt he could evade all suspicion upon the worse count … he is quite shrewd enough , I fancy , to make the choice and quite durable enough to abide it . |
| 16 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 17 | The tsar was personally reassured by the kaiser but by adding to the shadowy Dreikaiserbund a special relationship with Austria-Hungary , Bismarck had begun the slow elaboration of alliances which were to divide Europe more and more down to 1914 . |