Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [noun] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is distinguishable from power in the sense just discussed ( though the two forms may exist side by side ) in that it does not rely on any idea of direct control over others or coercion . |
| 2 | Typical examples of the kinds of ritual practices that are commonly observed include : ( i ) dietary and sexual abstinence before hunting , ( ii ) visionary experiences induced by drugs or fasting , ( iii ) ritual purification of hunter and weapons before hunting , ( iv ) offering of formal apology/excuse to the slain animal — blame-shifting , ( v ) offering of tokens of appeasement — food , tobacco , etc. — to the slain animal , ( vi ) ceremonial treatment of carcass — verbal flattery and solemnity , ( vii ) rules determining who may eat animals ' flesh ( which may include abstention by hunter and/or his entire kin group ) , ( viii ) avoidance of waste , ( ix ) avoidance of boasting , ( x ) ritual disposal of uneatable or unusable remains , and ( xi ) post-hunting purification of the hunter and/or his weapons ( see e.g. Frazer , 1922 ; Hallowell , 1926 ; Benedict , 1929 ; Speck , 1977 ; Campbell , 1984 ; Serpell , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | First , they must face trial by jury in civil actions , which allows the plaintiff 's attorney to appeal to the jury 's emotions — and US juries are rarely sympathetic towards a large firm with seemingly endless insurance cover . |
| 4 | A 20mm ( ¼in ) overflow pipe from near the top of the tank should take water by gravity ( with a fall of 1 in 10 minimum ) to 150mm ( 6in ) or so beyond the outer walls of the house where its discharge will be safe and visible . |
| 5 | If there are two guns they should stand side by side on the edge of the burrow , one shooting to the right and the other to the left , so that neither is endangered by whatever the other fellow does . |
| 6 | Many quoted approvingly the popular metonymic slogan that ‘ the sons of duke and dustman should sit side by side ’ , demonstrating a romanticism about class relations very common in Reconstruction rhetoric . |
| 7 | So what has to happen , ideally , is that your detective must learn piece by piece things which will eventually make the answer to the fundamental puzzle clear . |
| 8 | If we are to continue to meet our welfare task , our target for the Wings Appeal must increase year by year . |
| 9 | Students may exchange information by mail with other students on their lectures under the special communications facilities provided . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll need help by morning , ’ the Brigade Major said fervently . |
| 11 | Here the total absence of signals led to every kind of confusion , but its point was a testing of the function of such signals : did the normal ‘ framing ’ of such situations , which at the restaurant table might follow word by word and action by action the scene of a play , inhibit or qualify the responses of ‘ others ’ / ‘ an audience ’ ? |
| 12 | I gave him a list of galleries where he might find things by G.P. |
| 13 | Disraeli was later to talk of the Two Nations , the Rich and the Poor , who could exist side by side in the same country with no knowledge of each other 's way of life . |
| 14 | The reference to her Bible suggests two things : firstly the oral and the literary could exist side by side , and secondly that religion and superstition were not necessarily perceived as contesting forms of popular belief . |
| 15 | The vague reformism of the epoch was , in these circles , channelled into an even vaguer brand of aristocratic constitutionalism which revived the claims of the old ‘ rich men ’ ( ricos hombres ) of Castile ; grandees could stomach rule by career bureaucrats but the career of court favourite was an aristocratic preserve not to be exercised by the ‘ sausage maker ’ , Godoy . |
| 16 | They could do things by thumb and come out within a thou . |
| 17 | Then they could follow Hess by phone , and Carrington could head off immediately to the spot where he 'd ‘ kissed the deck ’ to make sure some Home Guard maniac did n't put a bullet in him . |
| 18 | Billy Bingham , Northern Ireland 's manager , believes the hurricane style blowing the Republic to the finals could take Italy by storm — if the isobars are favourable . |
| 19 | No one could take death by force . |
| 20 | In this way , distinct ventures could develop side by side with measurable results — Richard Lewis and his team at Bisham , the Slater squad , Chris Bradnam 's group and hopefully , in time , many more . |
| 21 | Of the 5,000 men that were surveyed in the course of the Kinsey research , no more than four ( 0.08 per cent of the survey ) were found who could reach ejaculation by fantasy alone , without the aid of manual or other stimulation . |
| 22 | But for one category of revolutionary decree — that which urged or recommended changes in attitude and practice without creating penal sanctions — the government had to rely on individuals who had vision and who could persuade others by example and argument . |
| 23 | Sixty years later , in a yet more striking case , the newly arrived Russian ambassador to Denmark , finding that the king , Christian V , was in bed and too ill to receive him , insisted on having another bed provided on which he could lie side by side with the king so that they could talk . |
| 24 | The range of permissible investments , for instance , is defined by statute in so far as the settlement makes no provision ; but , even within the limits of investment allowed by statute or settlement , a trustee may incur liability by want of due care in exercising his discretion . |
| 25 | In the case of the former , the tenant may avoid forfeiture by compliance with the covenant and payment of any financial compensation , if requested by the landlord . |
| 26 | Before I used to do things by instinct . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I used to do horses by astrology , ’ she says . |
| 28 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 29 | The compensation demanded would cover claims by Virgin that it lost revenue from passengers ‘ poached ’ by BA after gaining access to its computer records . |
| 30 | When the bill was negotiated , the shipper would notify SeaDocs by computer of the buyer-endorsee 's name and also provide the endorsee with a portion of his test key . |