Example sentences of "to [noun pl] [coord] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Table 3.2 we know it could do this by lending to banks or by buying government securities from them . |
| 2 | The Group believed that the Children Bill further eroded the already inadequate rights of poor families by allowing for the progressive transfer of parental rights to foster-parents and by widening the powers to dispense with parental consent to adoption . |
| 3 | The bowls were then sold to onlookers and by the end of the day over £1,000 had been raised for the storm appeal . |
| 4 | Groundwater is replenished by rainfall and depleted by aquifer baseflow to streams and by artificial abstraction . |
| 5 | As had been proposed to the court , both by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and by the guardian ad litem appointed by the court to act on behalf of the children , the court made a full care order . |
| 6 | He began pony racing and as his father actively encouraged him , he naturally progressed to horses and by coincidence landed his first winner on his first ride — Final Assault on the Flat at Naas in March 1983 . |
| 7 | But if an entrepreneur perceives the possibility of gaining profit by offering to buy at a price attractive to sellers and by offering to sell at a price attractive to buyers , the opportunities he thus offers to the market can in principle be made available by anyone . |