Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The section expressly prohibits by subs . |
| 2 | He has shown that a black hole of mass M radiates like a black body at a temperature which only differs by a factor of 4π from the temperature deduced above . |
| 3 | It turns out that the intensity of gravitational radiation predicted by this linearized theory generally only differs by small numerical factors from the results of more exact calculations ( Davis et al. |
| 4 | In France the Directive has not been implemented in order to further nature conservation — that it has done so results by default rather than by design . |
| 5 | While there may be Arab people who honestly desire peace , the world must realise that Israel only survives by putting fear into its enemies . |
| 6 | Example 4:11 Rent review machinery ; notice , counternotice reference to arbitration ( 1 ) the landlord may serve upon the tenant not earlier than one year before the review date in question a notice ( " a Review Notice " ) calling for a review of the rent ( 2 ) if the landlord serves a Review Notice then the rent payable with effect from the review date to which it relates shall be : ( a ) such sum as may be specified in the Review Notice or ( b ) the higher of the rent payable immediately before that review date and the Market Rent if ( but only if ) the tenant so elects by counternotice in writing served on the landlord not later than two months ( time being of essence ) after the service of a Review Notice ( 3 ) if the tenant serves a counternotice the Market Rent shall be determined in default of agreement within two months after the service of the counternotice by arbitration . |
| 7 | Example 4:12 Rent review machinery ; no notice ; determination by expert ( 1 ) if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by an independent surveyor acting as an expert ( 2 ) the independent surveyor shall ( a ) be appointed in default of agreement by the President ( b ) give the landlord and the tenant an opportunity to make representations to him and to reply to each other 's representations ( but shall not be bound by them ) ( c ) have power to determine how the costs of the reference shall be borne ( d ) publish his decision within two months of his appointment ( 3 ) if the independent surveyor dies delays or becomes unwilling or incapable of acting or if for any reason the President thinks fit he may discharge the independent surveyor and appoint another in his place and may repeat this procedure as often as necessary Example 4:13 Landlord 's option to select method of resolving disputes if the landlord and the tenant have not agreed the Market Rent three months before the relevant review date it shall be determined by arbitration or ( if the landlord so elects by notice in writing given not later than one month before the relevant review date time being of the essence ) by an independent surveyor acting as an expert |
| 8 | Long walks by the sea were needed to shake it all down and shake off the pounds that could so easily accumulate . |
| 9 | At first sight this looks like an uninteresting stipulation about how to use the word ‘ fact ’ — uninteresting because the anti-materialist could as well state his case using some such term as ‘ feature ’ or ‘ aspect ’ , and it is difficult to see how , once having allowed that there is something called ‘ what it is like to see ’ which one only learns by seeing , one could refuse to describe this as a feature or aspect of mental life . |
| 10 | Art of the chilly climes comes south to the Barbican Centre London , where Border Crossings draws together works by 14 Scandinavian artists , exploring the relationship between them , and emphasising the importance of European and international influences in their work . |
| 11 | He referred jestingly to ‘ that which somewhat sticks by me : it is the forest , and I might easily lose myself in it ’ A committee of the Commons a week later complained , among many other ‘ grievances in the civil government ’ , of ‘ Forest fines , which of late have been too far enlarged ’ . |
| 12 | The finished painting can stand alongside works by Neroccio or other artists of the period , because it is born of a whole-hearted adoption of the canons of the Sienese school . |
| 13 | The third weakness is that the method adopted to conquer inflation for the second time — raising the interest rate — only works by inflicting pain on borrowers , both corporate and domestic . |
| 14 | However , not only works by Fabergé , including their famous Easter eggs , are in the exhibition . |
| 15 | Later , when E.L.T. Mesens offered them his fabulous collection , which included a hundred or so works by Magritte , thirty by Max Ernst and twenty Dalís , asking only that the exhibition areas should bear his name , the directors were equally negative . |
| 16 | Competition fighting can perhaps be likened to a game of chess ; a player only improves by continually playing against another chess player better than himself . |
| 17 | Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it . |
| 18 | If it just flies by the compass , it will show an equivalent displacement from its goal ; if it can navigate it will reach its goal despite the displacement . |
| 19 | I 've watched him play , and it just goes by too fast . |
| 20 | Its founding collection , Clement Litill 's Library , was deposited by bequest with the Toun and Kirk of Edinburgh in 1580 , and thus pre-dates by three years the founding of the College which was to become the University of Edinburgh . |
| 21 | but can not sustain a courtly approach with the articulacy of Wilekin : line 23 , quoted here , could easily come from a prayer to the Virgin Mary , and the clerk soon concludes by a sacrilegious plea in Marian terms : ( " For the love of the mother of heaven , change your mind and hear my plea ! " ) |
| 22 | Similarly , in the case of the universe , could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform ? |
| 23 | Although , ultimately , she accepted the need for pattern books , production schedules , yearly reviews by committee and other organizational disciplines , she disliked intensely the way these formalities intruded into her own sphere of influence and destroyed the spontaneity of her collection , which had always been one of her greatest strengths . |
| 24 | And she finally ends by saying , ‘ All I can look forward to now is the toneless drone of the master 's voice and the pendulum swing of his leg over the desk . ’ |
| 25 | Meanwhile calls by Bucklow Councillor Jim Brentnall for more bobbies on the beat were rejected by police committee chairman John Collins . |
| 26 | It generally works by consensus , so a country can veto its conclusions . |
| 27 | Peter has to be content with the single class reader provided by the school , which he already knows by heart . |
| 28 | Not only did he treat everyone in sight but also led nightly singsongs by thumping away on the pub piano . |
| 29 | ‘ I will leave Lady Lavinia to tell you her plans for herself — if she still holds by them . |
| 30 | Martin always starts by working out the elements in detailed pencil drawings which become works in their own rights , before lightly sketching in the compositions for his paintings |