Example sentences of "[adv] by [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The employee therefore see his involvement in a union , or support for his union , to be the best means of securing his personal objectives ( eg. through extra pay or shorter working hours ) or the employee may consider that his own goals would be furthered better by loyalty to senior managers in the organisation and acceptance of the organisation 's goals . |
| 2 | However the effect of the report was determined entirely by reaction to the ‘ fear and apprehension … subculture ’ ( Feedback , 1984 , p.3–4 ) which the investigator claimed to have detected . |
| 3 | Perhaps by reference to rivers . |
| 4 | The determination by the material base having been displaced , the form of ideology ( distortion ) can no longer be explained merely by reference to contradictions in the material base although Habermas incorporates Marx 's critique of the commodity form of labour as ideology ( Habermas 1972 : 59 ) . |
| 5 | It is suggested , however , that corporate power can not be legitimated merely by reference to the rights cited by Hessen . |
| 6 | Moreover , they can not be accounted for merely by reference to spatial differences in social composition . |
| 7 | It is not good enough , therefore , to operate monetary policy merely by reference to what is going on outside the window on a particular day . |
| 8 | In a developed legal system the rules of recognition are of course more complex ; instead of identifying rules exclusively by reference to a text or list they do so by reference to some general characteristic possessed by the primary rules . |
| 9 | As there was no rail link between Scotland and England , almost everyone travelling from south of the border did so by train to Liverpool and boat from there to Ardrossan . |
| 10 | But this idea is not easily generalizable unless we suppose that the justification is achieved less by appeal to the pig than by appeal to the fact that there is a pig before me ; the fact , in this instance , causes the belief . |
| 11 | The Kantian aesthetic achieves its meaning only by contrast to what Bourdieu terms an anti-Kantian aesthetic . |
| 12 | Sixty-six-year-old Yevgeniy , whose regular excursions on to the frozen river were interrupted only by deportation to Germany when the Nazis came swarming through Kiev , knows how to test the ice . |
| 13 | The value of this idea can really be judged only by reference to the value of the whole explanatory framework of ‘ indefinite ’ science , at whose basis it lies . |
| 14 | Some matters are no doubt decided only by reference to their intrinsic merits , others on purely political grounds . |
| 15 | Thus it is only by reference to a standard of normality that we can identify and respond to actions such as those of children and the insane . |
| 16 | It is only by reference to the contribution of ‘ environment ’ , both social and physical , to the spread of heroin use that conclusions might be drawn as to why heroin use reached ‘ epidemic ’ proportions in such a short space of time in the Wirral area . |
| 17 | Such a statement is analytic , whereas the truth of synthetic statements can be judged only by reference to facts of the world . |
| 18 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 19 | The mood of deregulation is tempered only by reference to the need to assure the public of the competence of providers of legal services . |
| 20 | A syntactically deviant sentence can be interpreted only by reference to a non-deviant sentence : a speaker , in other words , is not free to create his own grammar . |
| 21 | The number and extent of the obligations can be ascertained only by reference to the terms expressly agreed in the contract and to those extra terms which the law automatically implied into it . |
| 22 | The strength of Gloucester 's hold on the duchy connection can not , however , be explained only by reference to the situation within the duchy itself . |
| 23 | However , the way in which the theories relate to the overall transition sequence is generally to be understood only by reference to the experimental observations . |
| 24 | To which you of course reply that the concept of misdiagnosis implies the possibility of correct diagnosis , and that I am able to discount the evidence of your feelings only by reference to other feelings . |
| 25 | If an expert sues for his fees , the entitlement and/or the amount could be challenged in court only by reference to the contract made by the parties about the fees . |
| 26 | Briefly , plasma antibodies present only by adhesion to cell membranes were removed by preliminary incubation of PBL and careful washing . |
| 27 | Although he was a master of English prose , he showed that certain feelings could be expressed only by recourse to ‘ the mither tingue ’ . |
| 28 | Questions about the distribution and change of power can be answered objectively by reference to a model of power relationships , which also has implications for the rational choice of foreign policies . |
| 29 | The meeting whose dangers she tried to reason away by recourse to Freud . ’ |
| 30 | In July he slipped away by train to Dire Dawa and my father wrote despondently to the Foreign Office : " Lij Yasu , during his three months ' stay in Addis Ababa , has succeeded in destroying even the semblance of central government and is dragging down the prestige of individual ministers so that there is no authority to whom the Legation can appeal . " |