Example sentences of "do this [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way we must do this is by working together to get our costs down and ensuring we provide the quality of service out customers need at the right price . |
| 2 | The only way that Father could do this was by giving his son the head of the first living creature he met , which happened to be an elephant . |
| 3 | It is far more difficult to approach someone to whom you do not feel at all dose and in many cases the only way to do this is by means of a third person who may be willing to ask them for their opinion of you . |
| 4 | One very good way to do this is by exploring our bodies on our own . |
| 5 | But if the best way to do this is by romping around a campfire and sniffing each other 's bottoms is open to question . |
| 6 | One way of doing this is by imposing boundaries , with regard to both time and space , which children and childcare are not allowed to cross . |
| 7 | One way of doing this is by taking a unit-linked endowment . |
| 8 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 9 | This on-the-job training might be supplemented ( though here agreement was less widespread ) by study of past negotiations and of the achievements of successful diplomats and statesmen : the best way of doing this was by analysing the despatches and memoranda these had written . |
| 10 | The Tory Party had a clear mission which was to break the power of the unions , and the way that it did this was by using the law . |
| 11 | One of the main ways in which they did this was by seeking to rally people behind their cause by appealing to the issues of the day , through the press , pulpit , and the speeches given by the candidates at the hustings . |
| 12 | And the way we do this is by resort to moral principles , which we identify , weigh , and try to apply to the issue before us . |