Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is [adv] by [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reports are always subjected to much criticism and it is only by writing in unexceptionable language for a specific readership that clear meanings are preserved . |
| 2 | I am Cambridged out , and it is only by getting away from the familiar that anything good will ( I hope ) emerge . |
| 3 | However , the German attitude to Europe is something which is determined by a massive historical heritage , and it is only by investigating this that both the motives and dangers can be truly grasped . |
| 4 | Silly it may be , but it is only by considering the way women define their job as housewives that the housewife 's long working hours can be understood . |
| 5 | It is easy enough to measure the volumes of lava flows , but it is only by constructing isopach maps that the volume of pyroclastic material erupted can be estimated , and this is particularly important in volcanoes at destructive plate margins , where the mass of magma represented by pyroclastic rocks sometimes far outweighs that represented by lavas . |