Example sentences of "[verb] [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | part of this interpretation has been by politicians and clerics as well as by judges . |
| 2 | So often in my life , where I 've made a mistake , it has been by taking the soft option . |
| 3 | Having cut her teeth touring with a socialist theatre collective , her formal training has been by a battery of French mime gurus . |
| 4 | In other words , for Hinduism the road to monotheism has been by way of syncretism ( blending together ) rather than rejection . |
| 5 | Yet , as we shall see , this has been by far the most prevalent trend in terms of legislation , at least since the start of the 1970s . |
| 6 | The time-honoured method has been by urine testing , but with the renal threshold in the not so elderly being of the order of 10 mmol/1 glycosuria is only going to occur when the blood glucose is in double figures . |
| 7 | This latter work has been by Boehm 's team of physicists from Caltech , the Technical University of Munich , the Institute for Nuclear Science at Grenoble and the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research at Villigen . |
| 8 | For many years the beautiful Yellow Sword has been by far the most desirable livebearer in the European hobby . |
| 9 | Benjamin 's case , though , was subtly different : for the most part family emigration seems to have been prompted at least as much by the need or the desire to leave one place as it has been by the yearning to live somewhere else . |
| 10 | In other words , the introduction and extension of state-pension rights over the course of the twentieth century has been by far the most important mechanism for increasing the effective wealth of the poorer sections of the population . |
| 11 | One way in which some writers have attempted to avoid this problem has been by appealing to literacy , as a case where the formal features of language can be claimed to make sense apart from context . |
| 12 | The next strongest performance has been by Giorgio de Chirico , up 690% at an average price of £55,000 even after a 25% fall last year . |
| 13 | Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism . |
| 14 | While psychoanalysis itself is very expensive , time-consuming , not available on the National Health Service , and therefore practised on only a small number of people , its influence has been by no means confined to those directly benefiting from treatment . |
| 15 | perhaps the best-known attempt to make such a link has been by Peter Hall . |
| 16 | I am by no means certain , however , he is right because , if he is right , the silence of the Act as to whether applications can be made ex parte or inter partes — which means , in my judgment , they could be either in appropriate circumstances — has been by the Rules cut down to deprive a party from being able to make an ex parte application . |
| 17 | The main constructive effort in providing for the future leisure activities of this national has been by Spanish and other Mediterranean resort countries , and predictably they have been the gainers . |
| 18 | The main method of revision has been by the publication of new editions . |
| 19 | and always has been by Ron . |
| 20 | Erm most of the i involvement I 've ever had in any kind of job has been by accident . |
| 21 | She loves being by water , be it the river Dee or the sea . |
| 22 | The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word . |
| 23 | The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so . |
| 24 | The arbitrary implications of undefinable rights are particularly evident where the right claimed is by its nature not capable of being satisfied by any degree of compulsion exercised within the relevant society . |
| 25 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 26 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 27 | The longest follow up reported is by O'Sullivan . |
| 28 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 29 | Building surveying is by definition a very technical skill . |
| 30 | The only way in which this ambiguity can be resolved is by appealing to higher levels of information such as syntax , semantics , pragmatics and general knowledge . |