Example sentences of "[conj] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gives access to all sorts of information , whether locally provided , or by remote access to systems all over the world . |
| 2 | It is vital to bring down a high fever immediately by using infant paracetamol , removing any extra clothing , opening a window in a warm room or by tepid sponging . |
| 3 | For example , subjects were able to remember whether a character had been referred to by name or by pronominal reference ( as in , He wo n't leave Rachel 's room / Mac wo n't leave Rachel 's room ) and whether an utterance had contained a full clausal unit or an abbreviated elliptical clause ( as in You mean that Jamie does n't know that his mother is in the hospital yet ? / You mean that Jamie does n't know that yet ? ) . |
| 4 | All enquiries , whether ad hoc or by standard program , can be made of the accumulated file of past students just as easily as of the file of current students . |
| 5 | gifts expressing personal regard for the employee 's qualities , in the case of a parting or by mutual consent ; or |
| 6 | The effects may be visual or verbal , in sound or music ; they may be obtained by trick photography , by the use of Quantel computer trickery , or by clever selection of elements of sound or picture : Ariston 's use of a Nintendo-style soundtrack to achieve an ( allegedly ) hypnotic effect , a rash of commercials using operatic arias , the use of music by Hamlet cigars , Rutger Hauer in the Guinness campaign , the talking animals in the Electricity commercials . |
| 7 | Water can be provided by water bottles or by automatic watering systems . |
| 8 | In addition , an exercise test performed periodically should be able to detect the development of new coronary lesions , so that these can be acted upon at an early stage , either by angioplasty or by coronary artery bypass grafting if this is appropriate . |
| 9 | Change in landscape over a period T = t 2 - t 1 can be measured either by integration of fluxes or by net displacement of a system parameter ( ) . |
| 10 | Now distance receptors provide information about a possible event in the immediate future such that , through neural connections to innate movement controllers , an animal may make ‘ precurrent ’ reactions enabling it to adjust to the new information , for example , by approaching prey , or by preparatory behaviour for escape in relation to possible alarming stimuli . |
| 11 | Whether or not the wine has been blended by the solera method or by actual blending , it is made up in lotes and left to rest until the parts have ‘ married ’ . |
| 12 | Do n't deal with deviations first cos they 'll never learn but build in lots of applications either by questions or by actual exercise . |
| 13 | Because of its size and position , Riva would be a good choice for those wishing to explore the whole lakeside area , either by way of local excursion coaches , or by hired car or boat . |
| 14 | Companies will be punished unless they give their employees financial incentives to commute by bus , car-pool , or by rapid-transit rail lines not yet built . |
| 15 | Our shopping and baking habits , our home record-keeping and correspondence , local and worldwide , our legal , medical and insurance affairs , our most intimate communications , could all be encompassed by our home data bank with its living connections to systems in the outside world ; and by the two-way nature of those links and the ingenuity of the ‘ hacker ’ or by pure mischance all our secrets could be opened to the world . |
| 16 | Profit centres should be logical groupings of work by type or by geographical distribution with significant directly attributable costs in relation to the whole business . |
| 17 | a Tumours detected by digital rectal examination , through raised values of prostate specific antigen , or by transrectal ultrasonography are usually 4–7 ml in volume , and truly focal lesions are diagnosed in less than 4% of cases . |
| 18 | Furthermore , even before Posidonius , the Druids may well have heard about Greek doctrines of immortality either from oral tradition in Massalia or by honest purchase of Greek books . |
| 19 | The long finnage of fancy goldfish is easily torn by other fish or by unsuitable decor . |
| 20 | ‘ If Britain now decides to meet the legally binding percentage reductions by importing low sulphur coal , or by burning gas , it will be accused of having twisted the other member states . |
| 21 | When bFGF was administered subcutaneously or by intragastric route in a dose of 100 µg/kg , there was no significant change in the ethanol induced gastric lesions . |
| 22 | The second is by looking at the patterns of coin finds , both those revealed by coins deposited in hoards and those which were casually lost and have been recovered in modern times by chance , by treasure hunting or by archaeological excavation . |
| 23 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 24 | This may be detected either by using pulse timing techniques or by very-long-baseline interferometry . |
| 25 | ‘ There is a dishonest appropriation for the purposes of the Theft Act 1968 where by the substitution of a price label showing a lesser price on goods for one showing a greater price , a defendant either by that act alone or by that act in conjunction with another act or other acts ( whether done before or after the substitution of the labels ) adversely interferes with or usurps the right of the owner to ensure that the goods concerned are sold and paid for at that greater price . |
| 26 | If so , are letters and notices translated into the home language by the school or by other volunteer translators ? |
| 27 | However , power is not merely exercised in a simple manner by the state or by one class over others via punishment and other mechanisms , but is a ubiquitous and many-sided phenomenon ; there exists a ‘ multi-plicity of power relations ’ in society which are the constant focus of negotiation and struggle . |
| 28 | By paved fountain , or by rushy brook , |
| 29 | A project may be financed by equity finance in a company specifically set up to undertake the project , or by new equity introduced into an existing company . |
| 30 | Sand blown from the very wide sand flats at low tide may be trapped on the bank by pebbles or by such debris as barbed wire or any of the usual drift commonly found on beaches . |