Example sentences of "we [vb base] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is what we mean by freedom from increasing centralisation and from the Government 's highly prescriptive policies . |
| 2 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
| 3 | On Thursday we travel by ferry to Kintyre and then from Claonaig to Lochranza where we visit the 16th-century tower house ( HS ) . |
| 4 | Proof We proceed by induction on n . |
| 5 | Proof We proceed by induction on n starting with the trivial case n = 3 . |
| 6 | We fly from here to Nanking on April 17th , and from Nanking to Shanghai , we go by train on May 8th . |
| 7 | This we do by reference to primary norms . |