Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases a party may effectively exclude liability by including a comprehensive list of the duties it undertakes and making it clear that the list is exclusive . |
| 2 | Obviously , such a current can not affect the transport of material in the swash zone , but it may greatly help transport by saltation and suspension in the breaker zone . |
| 3 | In the first place it is essential to the concept of graded tests that they should be taken by students when they are ready , from time to time throughout their school career , or indeed after school ( there is no reason why a grandmother and granddaughter should not practise side by side for their Grade 1 piano examination ) . |
| 4 | The lesson is that we should not judge people by their reputation , without knowing a great deal more about them . |
| 5 | Roh also suggested that , as a first step towards free movement , the two countries should allow exchanges of letters and telephone calls by displaced persons and divided families , and should immediately allow visits by those over 60 years old . |
| 6 | As the 1981 White paper , Growing Older , commented ‘ care in the community must increasingly mean care by the community ’ ( DHSS 1981 , p. 3 ) . |
| 7 | Care in the community must increasingly mean care by the community . |
| 8 | Congress must fully support moves by the T U C and the Labour Party to ensure that temporary workers are treated no less favourably than full-time workers . |
| 9 | Students may register for an additional module up to the end of week 1 of the relevant term ( week 2 for new students in their first term ) , and must officially delete modules by week 6 ( about to be brought forward to week 4 ) of the current term . |
| 10 | They must be taught through benevolence and sympathy ; when the necessity arises shame may be used , but fear only in the last extremity , and then ‘ with such delicacy that if possible the habit may not gather strength by the use you are constrained to make of it ’ . |
| 11 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 12 | The similarity in IgG subclass proportions between healthy and affected ulcerative colitis twins might also reflect stimulation by a particular antigen(s) . |
| 13 | Even the greatest nobles could only gain admittance by sending in presents of large sums of money : ‘ whosoever gets enamoured of her gets sucked into the whirlpool of her demands , ’ writes Dargah Quli Khan , ‘ and brings ruin upon himself and his house . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , whatever success was achieved within these programmes it was not enough to change the general picture of an agricultural system which could only expand production by having access to more land . |
| 15 | The " culture " offered by a liberal education could thus control nature by generating a higher form of " life " — by teaching " the art to live " . |
| 16 | They could not go side by side . |
| 17 | Forbidden suicide by his religion , he could not induce death by , for instance , agitating his pierced hands and feet until loss of blood carried him away . |
| 18 | The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route . |
| 19 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 20 | Its half year loss emerges at £51m and the figure could easily top £250m by the year-end . |
| 21 | Musical savants could easily learn pieces by Greig which follow classical rules , but were stumped by the less structured avant garde works of Bartok . |
| 22 | You could still transfer stitches by hand tooling but , except when working small motifs , this would take more time than would be worth the effort . |
| 23 | From 1860 young Frenchmen without a licence en droit could also gain appointment by taking an examination in diplomatic history , international law and languages . |
| 24 | If the two governments agreed to leave the border where it is , and if Slav Macedonia perhaps changed that vague phrase in the preamble of its constitution , then Britons and Bretons — sorry , Makedones and Makedonci — could probably live side by side with not much more than the usual inter-human friction . |
| 25 | If they could n't beat Greycoats by skill , they might stand more chance by guile , and one needed to learn all one could about the opposition . |
| 26 | But he could n't deny Christ by ignoring his basic relationship with him . |
| 27 | Indeed , drilling could actually damage employment by discouraging tourism , ’ she said . |
| 28 | Carbon dioxide fertilization may also benefit plants by increasing their efficiency in water use . |
| 29 | Without a recognition of the common disadvantage experienced by women and older people , there is always a danger that proposals to eliminate sexism in certain aspects of social policy may unwittingly condone ageism by arguing that there is actually a conflict of interest between women ( as carers ) and older people ( see , for example , Finch , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | To confine the word to either sense would hardly be possible without pedantry ; though , on the one hand , we may agree that a thing which has no owner — a rare event in a civilized country , except in the case of a few things , like wild animals at large — is not property , and , on the other , we may often avoid confusion by using the word ‘ ownership ’ for the most extensive right which a man can have over material things . |