Example sentences of "[to-vb] by " in BNC.

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1 In its tragic grandeur it seems to forestall by a century some of the finest thoughts of Sibelius . )
2 Many physical factors influence a person 's ability to communicate by means of verbal and non-verbal language , and especially important are adequately functioning body structures in the nervous and endocrine systems .
3 Ruby attempted to communicate by a combination of gestures , clicks , and guttural sounds unlike any known language .
4 Taken to hospital , he managed to communicate by writing that he was deaf and dumb , that he lived in Dublin , and that he was temporarily resident in Cardiff .
5 In Orkney not only did the parents not see or have any access to their children , they were not even allowed to communicate by letter or telephone .
6 People who have particular knowledge and experience in common , whose contextual realities , so to speak , are closely congruent , will manage to communicate by engaging relevant aspects of contexts with only sparing use of the linguistic resources at their disposal .
7 Several experimenters have maintained that chimpanzees and gorillas can be taught to communicate by means of artificial systems not involving speech .
8 A further nine ROM-installed applications are also bundled with the system : Go Mail for message swapping and simple electronic mail connection ; Go Fax for connection to any Group III facsimile machine ; Eo Phone for connecting a cellular phone system ; Eo Sound for recording and playing voice messages ; Eo Calc ; the Eo Lock security system ; Go Mininote , a kind of electronic Post It note ; Sitka PenTops/Pen Central enables users to communicate by cable or modem to MS-DOS personal computers ; and PenSoft Personal Perspective for calendar , diary , and address book .
9 The document also carries an article by the theologian Hugo Assmann on the ‘ electronic church ’ in Latin America , and an essay on the right to communicate by the Panamanian journalist Gerardo Sotelo .
10 Lloyd finds this paradigm wanting in various respects , and proceeds to develop an alternative approach in which the non-verbal channel of communication is precluded by asking children to communicate by telephone on a route-finding task .
11 For advocacy , obviously , the prime need is the ability to communicate by speech .
12 It enables non-telepaths to communicate by thought waves . ’
13 Define the market with which it is intended to communicate by region , by product or by any other segmentation method .
14 While English tends to modify by use of adjectives or adverbs , BSL tends to use inflection especially in relation to the verb and it is this which makes its story formation rather different .
15 Last in was the train passenger , who took 52 mins ( average speed , 7.5 mph ) ; this , despite the fact that a train was scheduled at exactly the right time for the contestant to catch by cycling the 0.7 miles from the start to the station .
16 The women 's top seed , Steffi Graf , was made to struggle by Gabriela Sabatini before reaching the semi-finals of her fourth consecutive Grand Slam event .
17 Divide the amount you have to shuffle by the horizontal distance you had previously moved your head : this ratio gives the weight of your head as a fraction of your whole body weight .
18 French coal production is likely to fall by nearly 40% by 1990 and to halve by the year 2000 .
19 On Aug. 28 , 1990 , the then Agriculture Minister , Braks , announced a programme — described as the strictest in the world — designed to halve by 2000 the use of pesticides by the country 's intensive agricultural industry .
20 To this hour we ca n't judge with any certainty whether they really intend to slip by us into Derbyshire or to march to Wales through Cheshire …
21 I do not want my use of pronouns to slip by unnoticed : I want readers to think about it , and to act on their conclusions .
22 Barbiturates and alcohol have the opposite effect , allowing time to slip by unnoticed .
23 ‘ Well , hell-oh , ’ said a large man as she tried to slip by him with an ‘ excuse-me ’ .
24 And so now , we have one precise target , and the other two will have to slip by the board .
25 The question is how far a company exports the mores of its own country to another ( as the US tends to encourage by devices such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act , although this does at least exempt ‘ greasing the palm ’ of minor officials ) .
26 They accepted the need to formulate policies that the US congress and the American people could be induced to accept by democratic means .
27 It was one of those not very funny ironies I should have learned to accept by now .
28 The idea of planned Norman villages was found difficult to accept by scholars at that time , but since then further evidence has been found , particularly in the north of England .
29 On the special report , section and industrial conferences you 've been recommended to accept by the C E C.
30 Furthermore , they do not identify uniquely which component to replace ; that is left to the tradesmen to isolate by manual reference .
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