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Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] by [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The accused may admit the exposure was wilful etc. verbally and/or by making a statement under caution .
2	This should be done by writing to the Address given below or by completing and returning the tear-off slip which was included with the Notification of Entry .
3	( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him .
4	( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him .
5	Subject to the requirements of any act or particular rule ( as to which see below ) any document may be served , if the person to be served is acting in person , by delivering it to him personally or by delivering it at , or sending it by first class post to , the address he has given for service .
6	Nowadays you are careful to address Interpreter Ni , Professor Chen and Party Secretary Yang by their handle as well as their name — and can cause serious insult by forgetting to do so or by introducing them to each other in the wrong order .
7	When these droplets grow large enough , by colliding together or by sticking to ice crystals , they fall as rain .
8	They then either flush the rabbits by tapping two sticks together or by dragging a long line between them across the field or fields towards the net .
9	It creates a cup from living leaves , either from two hanging closely together or by twisting a single one into a curl .
10	An actual baby had awakened the baby inside herself ; she wanted less to be a mother than to have a baby , so that by feeding him she could in some way nourish herself .
11	Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved .
12	Can the tape be structured so that by reading serially through the file it would be simple to produce a text stream suitable for an automatic typesetting process :
13	By the next field , the river curved in almost a right-angle so that by running diagonally across , they were able to cross the road and approach a place where , at the far side of the bridge , the ground shelved gently down to the water .
14	It is only that by doing so , the accounts are reflecting the economic reality more closely .
15	This is n't necessarily so and by neglecting to make a valid , legal Will families put at risk the security and future of their nearest and dearest .
16	All these things were bound up together and by defying his father he was in effect abandoning them .
17	By linking different parts of a discourse together and by reducing redundancy , verb-phrase anaphora contributes to the cohesion of the discourse ( that is , the extent to which it flows and holds together ) .
18	In addition the chargee is not obliged to refrain from exercising his rights merely because by doing so he could avoid loss to the company nor does failure to exercise them when the security is declining in value constitute a breach of any duty that he may owe to the company .
19	Completing his degree would ensure that he was better equipped to do the job , especially as by studying social anthropology he would be better able to understand his players .
20	( More marks are typically lost by failing to write one answer altogether than by presenting two or three answers which are slightly weaker than you would have wished . )
21	Gischler and Jauregui ( 1984 ) have demonstrated that in Peru much of this pre-Hispanic terracing is abandoned but could be renovated to enhance food production more economically than by developing new lands .
22	But unlike many computer-makers , Compaq makes all its sales through dealers , rather than by using its own sales force .
23	Both have begun to produce a sensation of relief by arbitrarily juxtaposing lights and darks rather than by using shading in a naturalistic way .
24	Rather than by using the fist , the greatest volume is attained more easily and also more beautifully by placing the notes so close together that the ear hears no space between them .
25	In practice , governments often regulate externalities such as pollution or congestion by imposing standards that affect quantities directly rather than by using the tax system to affect production and consumption indirectly .
26	Word meanings are especially liable to change because people learn them by hearing them in context rather than by looking up the ‘ standard ’ definition , and the inferences they draw can vary .
27	But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them .
28	He also promotes his staff according to merit , rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady , age-linked advancement .
29	They can only be overcome by action on an international scale , rather than by castigating one or two countries .
30	The practical significance of this change is mainly to reduce the damages by removing one possible plaintiff , rather than by removing the prospect of an action .