Example sentences of "they can [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experiments with captive eels suggest that they can navigate by the stars , just as some migrating birds can , and on the first stages of their journey away from Europe , when they swim near the surface , this may be the way they guide themselves . |
| 2 | This they can do by rallying under the Alliance motto of ‘ The Common Good ’ . |
| 3 | Most of us have the luxury of choice but others are limited by what they can do by their physical disabilities . |
| 4 | If anything , I 'd like to show people what they can do by themselves . |
| 5 | Erm they can start by relaxing erm and a passive person erm and at the same time try and increase their . |
| 6 | Folk 'll no ’ come oot oan a cauld day now when they can sit by the fire an' watch wrestlin' oan the telly . ’ |
| 7 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 8 | He says the ewes are n't stupid , they can tell by smell if the lamb is their own ; so they need a bit of gentle coaxing . |
| 9 | ‘ People are likely to sit down and work out how much they can save by buying now , and then they 'll come back to us , ’ says Evans Halshaw general manager Joe Curley . |
| 10 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 11 | These are also found in poorly oxygenated ponds , where they can survive by breathing air . |
| 12 | Headquarters Agreements provide for privileges and immunities for officials of member States which they can claim by virtue of the treaty between the Headquarters State and the organisation . |
| 13 | Even if a gull out-manoeuvres them , they can escape by diving below the surface of the water where the gulls can not follow . |
| 14 | It is such a complicated thing to try and do , you do need the support of the medical profession and of the managers of the health service and of the public , and you 'll get it more effectively if they can see by example what you 're trying to do comprehensively . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It is such a complicated thing to try and do , you do need the support of the medical profession and of the managers of the Health Service , and of the public , and you 'll get it more effectively if they can see by example what you 're trying to do comprehensively . ’ |
| 16 | To start negotiations with those EFTA countries who want to join the Community so that they can join by 1995 . |
| 17 | They can work by fraud and open force ; he only by fraud , through which his gulls are made to use force . |