Example sentences of "[be] by [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are required to identify the best way of helping the frail and vulnerable and in many cases that will be by using the voluntary or the independent sector . |
| 2 | ‘ If we are ever to have a real modern church , it must be by adopting a fresh church arrangement . ’ |
| 3 | At other times it may be by anointing the sick person with oil . |
| 4 | The way the red blood cell nucleus is put into the HeLa cell cytoplasm is by fusing the two cells . |
| 5 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 6 | There is no road link with Laerdal , Kaupanger or Årdal and the only means of access for visitors is by hiring a small boat across the Lusterfjord from Solvorn . |
| 7 | And another way I can hurt you is er mentally and the third way I can hurt you is by combining the two together . |
| 8 | If your kalanchoe is in the house , the most economical and easy way to deal with them is by using a proprietary spray , such as Fisons Insect Spray for Houseplants . |
| 9 | The only way to lighten a heavy forehand , which is basically the trouble , is by using a strong leg up to a giving and taking hand , thereby giving a series of strong half-halts . |
| 10 | The simplest way of testing an advertisement 's sales effect is by using a direct response ad . |
| 11 | The usual method of expressing habitual actions is by using the present simple tense : Water boils at 100 degrees Centigrade . |
| 12 | I suppose every one has to earn their keep , and the way to catch them is by using the old , traditional Scottish fishing method of trolling . |
| 13 | For some this is true ; but I would contend that the best way to develop performance work is by using the whole group approach . |
| 14 | One way in which rapid accumulation undermines the conditions for its own existence is by creating a mass proletariat . |
| 15 | One way of doing this is by taking a unit-linked endowment . |
| 16 | Settis , who was born in Southern Italy in 1941 , is by training a classical archaeologist , but his writings range beyond Antiquity and include a study on the meaning of Giorgione 's ‘ Tempesta ’ , articles on Aby Warburg , the founder of the great library now part of London University , and — very much in the Warburg tradition — an edition of papers on the classical tradition in Italian art , La memoria dell'antico nell'arte italiana ( 1984–86 ) . |
| 17 | There is an important strand in English thought , which is traceable to Hobbes 's idea of civitas , and which believes that the only way to preserve society is by acknowledging a perpetual sovereign power . |
| 18 | Writing recently in The Lancet , they argue that the only way of assessing a tumour 's spread is by examining the whole gland . |
| 19 | Although such ‘ signals ’ may be born of snobbism and élitism of the least attractive kind and are often public confirmations of economic privilege , those teachers who have devoted their working lives to the state sector know that the only way of countering , undermining and finally defeating private education is by making the local authority schools places where all children realise their full potential . |
| 20 | The first is by keeping a close watch on the powers that are granted to the executive … |
| 21 | The clearest way to focus the questions raised so far is by posing the level-of-analysis problem with more care . |
| 22 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |
| 23 | The only way we can face the challenge of the 90s is by having a new type of government . ’ |
| 24 | But it is by mixing the personal and the cosmic in his reporting , just as the scientists mix them in their lives , that Mr Overbye has managed to write such a good book . |
| 25 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 26 | One way of overcoming this is by spinning a large-area sample of the solid in the laser beam , so that any individual spot is irradiated for a short time only , and is able to cool before being brought back into the beam . |
| 27 | In pondering these options , the key point to bear in mind is that the only way a society can get a rich future is by engineering a rich economy . |
| 28 | 4 ) The way to achieve this is by following the Noble Eightfold Path — right views , right thought , right speech , right actions , right employment , right mental discipline , right endeavour , right meditation . |
| 29 | ‘ I have one pupil who shows off how rich her parents are by wearing a huge silk flower in her hair , ’ says one teacher . |
| 30 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |