Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 2 | The court refused to accept that by petitioning for divorce she had revoked her consent . |
| 3 | For the purposes of the present work , it is sufficient to know that by the end of the seventh century a town inhabited mainly by people of Latin culture existed on the site , and that the surrounding countryside was peopled by Slavs . |
| 4 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 5 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 6 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 7 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 8 | Suppose now , however , that B , having accepted S 's repudiation in June , sees the market beginning to rise rapidly in July and , in an attempt to minimise his loss before the market rises further , buys replacement goods on July 15 at £115 per ton — ; only to discover that by the delivery date under the original contract ( December 1 ) the market price has fallen back to £110 per ton . |
| 9 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 10 | He would not be surprised to find that by using his intelligence he could add one or two significant improvements to this design . |
| 11 | One does not have to be a Marxist to observe that by comparison something seems to have gone badly wrong in the capitalist societies of the Western world over the last two decades . |
| 12 | There were many other primitives to come but by the time they arrived I knew it was just an attempt to revive attention . |
| 13 | Commentators noted that the decree might prove impossible to implement except by force . |
| 14 | And it is no good trying to combat that by making the microphone ( " ear " ) more sensitive , since this would only make it more vulnerable to being damaged by the , albeit now slightly quieter , outgoing sounds ! |
| 15 | Many , unable or unwilling to see that by the 1890s the emergence of the proletariat had redefined the terms of the class struggle , failed to cut themselves adrift from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois roots . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the book 's last essay , titled Black Women and Feminism , takes to task those African-American feminists who are reluctant to acknowledge that by ignoring sexism in the Black community they have left unaddressed the abuse and subjugation of Black women by Black men . |
| 17 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 18 | ( b ) To purchase or by any other means acquire and take options over any property whatever , and any rights or privileges of any kind over or in respect of any property . |
| 19 | ( b ) To purchase or by any other means acquire and take options over any property whatever , and any rights or privileges of any kind over or in respect of any property . |
| 20 | I want to answer that by looking at what I call ‘ The Proper Purgatory . ’ |
| 21 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 22 | All the hobbitic jokes are doing , then , is to reflect and by intention deflect the modern inhibition over high styles which we and they share ; if we were not embarrassed by the hobbits , in other words , we would be by the heroes . |
| 23 | After contact with intraluminal antigens , the lymphocytes travel to mesenterial lymph nodes to mature and by way of peripheral blood back to the gut mucosa to secrete antibodies against the priming antigen . |
| 24 | I 've even been past Grey House twice to see if by any chance your car was there , to see if you 'd come back and not let me know . |
| 25 | ‘ Which reminds me , did you check to see if by any chance Chatterton has more stocks hidden in his zimmer ? ’ |
| 26 | Rachel was n't expecting her family to arrive until late morning so she decided on a quick visit to the occupational health centre to see if by any remote chance David might be there . |
| 27 | This was to continue until by 1962 300 000 Dutch citizens had been sent back to the Netherlands , 280000 of them being ‘ Brown Dutchmen ’ , Eurasians , strangers to Europe . |
| 28 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 29 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 30 | It is too simplistic to suggest that by offering improved opportunities in a less restrictive setting , individuals with often severe learning difficulties , frequently additional disabilities , and histories of damaging experiences , will thereby have access to improved , more satisfying life-styles . |