Example sentences of "[be] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We come back to in fact it 's the first par , again it 's the first part of thirty three , that you have looked at the question , or the possibility of expanding existing towns and villages , and as I read it , you have rejected that , er and therefore you see the only satisfactory method of providing land to meet the figures for the Greater York would be by a new settlement , this is the outstanding balance . |
| 2 | Payment at today 's price may be by a single lump sum or by instalments . |
| 3 | This will be by a single tube three foot long which will be held in the standard plastic clips screwed to the back wooden frame of the hood . |
| 4 | In this case , the spread of the habit would still be by a non-genetic learning process , but not by imitation . |
| 5 | The rejection of a loving , caring being by a cruel world becomes a proof of God 's love and a demonstration of its indestructibility . |
| 6 | Dr Albert has described turnpike trusts as " an administrative innovation brought into being by a small section of the community in what it saw as it own best interests " . |
| 7 | Mr Mann insists that Punjab must be a homeland for the Sikhs , brought into being by a UN-supervised plebiscite . |
| 8 | Examinations were by a National committee . |
| 9 | If you have lived in a European Community country or any country whose social security system is linked to Britain 's by a reciprocal agreements , contributions or residence there may be counted towards your pension depending on the country concerned . |
| 10 | Specifically , Filip said , his group 's margins would be on a par with Sun 's and ‘ ahead of Digital 's by a large margin . ’ |
| 11 | If you 're having double glazing fitted — make sure it 's by a reputable firm . |
| 12 | This fear of open debate continues even when the publication is by a retired officer and when control is less easy for the chief officer to enforce : |
| 13 | The little double planet Pluto has such a weird orbit that , even though almost all of the time it is by a long way the furthest known planet from the Sun , occasionally ( as at the time of writing ) it is closer to the Sun than is Neptune . |
| 14 | The AS/400 is by a long way IBM Corp 's most successful current product line yet Chicago-based System Software Associates Inc , generally regarded as the largest player in the AS/400 applications market , seems to be less than confident about the future of the line . |
| 15 | But under the Criminal Law Act 1967 anyone can arrest on reasonable suspicion of an arrestable offence , save that where the arrest is by a private person ( as here ) he must show either ( 1 ) that the arrested person was in fact in the act of committing the offence for which he was arrested , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person to be in the act of committing it , or ( 2 ) the arrested person had in fact committed the offence , or he reasonably suspected the arrested person of having committed the offence and ( in this last case ) the offence had in fact been committed by someone . |
| 16 | In chapter two we established that the most effective way of reducing the ambiguity produced by the pattern recogniser is by a lexical look-up which discards candidate strings that are not allowable in English . |
| 17 | Transport to other areas of London is by a frequent bus service . |
| 18 | The only way that we will get rid of them is by a general election . |
| 19 | The obvious one is by a chemical message leaving one cell and diffusing to the next — rather like speaking . |
| 20 | Now the pathology is by a chief information and i in fact , the chief information could be provoked merely by the presence of organisms . |
| 21 | The usual reduction to triangular form is by a pivotal condensation similar to that described in 2.2.1 , except that we only remove elements below the diagonal . |
| 22 | And one of the most common entrances into houses is by a small fan light window . |
| 23 | One of the greatest novels , I think , in America since the Second World War is by a black novelist , Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man erm and of course Baldwin comes to mind , but there are many others . |
| 24 | This is particularly likely when the growth measurement is by a new technique , as here , when the model may fail to include corrections for the response of the device . |
| 25 | Two applications in respect of the same premises may be heard together , even if one is by a new applicant and the other is not , Such a situation arises , for example , when the present licence-holder and a person claiming , with the owner 's consent , to be a new tenant or occupant , both lodge conflicting claims for renewal . |
| 26 | But nothing has come of it , and the only way to reach Wadi Halfa from Aswan is by a regular boat service that plies the lake . |
| 27 | Holy Living he described as ‘ rules to live under , as though under a physician 's hand , to be used like nourishment , that is by a daily care and meditation ’ . |
| 28 | The simplest statement of this constraint is by a linear factor , i.e. , which leads to the so-called logistic function . |
| 29 | Supervision is by a social worker , who can make certain requirements such as that the supervised person resides in a specified place or participates in specified activities . |
| 30 | The best way , though time consuming , of setting up such a system is by a participative approach . |