Example sentences of "by [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Postgraduate Diploma in Biotechnology may be taken by successfully completing the first year and a literature project . |
| 2 | You can maintain ‘ official ownership ’ of your case by summarising for the minutes ( 'Following my proposal the meeting agreed … ' ) and by literally having the last word on the item : ‘ So we 're agreed on that . |
| 3 | Sartre considered that orthodox dialectical materialism takes the easy way out by merely eliminating the first in favour of the second , making man a passive product entirely determined by economic circumstances . |
| 4 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
| 5 | Once you have the sub-menu dropped down you can select from it using the cursor keys to move the highlight bar or by just typing the first letter of the option 's name . |
| 6 | Observe that this task can be solved by just altering the first three joints . |
| 7 | Phil who 's seventeen and works as a barman in Mansfield Woodhouse in Nottinghamshire thought he 'd won one hundred and sixteen thousand pounds by correctly predicting the first three horses in the Derby . |
| 8 | The North also expressed its displeasure on Feb. 18 by unilaterally cancelling the fourth round of North-South Premiers ' talks scheduled for Feb. 25-28 . |