Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student can get in touch with the Counselling Service by phoning or by calling in to either office . |
| 2 | If you already have a first degree , the OU offers the opportunity to take a higher degree — MKA , MBA , MSc , BPhil , MPhil or PhD — either taught or by research . |
| 3 | They held that there is a limited set of fundamental ethical terms , such as good , bad , right , wrong , ought , duty , such that you can not explain what one of them amounts to except either by appealing to intuition of some simple non-natural property , or relation , to which it refers or by defining it by way of some other ethical term of which this is true . |
| 4 | Can I ask would that seriously if it were limited or by virtue of the panel report having identified this problem we reported that we saw a problem if it included B eight , would that be a problem from the point of view either Harrogate or Selby if B eight was in effect , if not in the policy itself , excluded ? |
| 5 | In industry the purpose of this process is to make work more interesting , through the restructuring of the components of a work role — either by increasing the number of operations that each worker has to perform or by making changes from one activity to another more frequent . |
| 6 | Such is the tensile strength of individual laminations that some are seen to have been partially pulled out of the core during piston coring or by the wire during core splitting . |
| 7 | But rather than be diverted by the red herring of whether or not such a category should exist or by the tricky question of how love should be expressed outwith marriage , let us not look for the borderline . |
| 8 | 9.4 Disputes with adjoining occupiers If any dispute arises between the Tenant and the tenants or occupiers of other parts of the Centre or the Adjoining Property as to any easement right or privilege in connection with the use of the Premises and any other part of the Centre or the Adjoining Property or as to the boundary structures separating the Premises from any other property it shall be decided [ by the Landlord or in such manner as the Landlord shall direct or by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator ] The problem with this provision is that it restricts the tenant in any action it may wish to take against other tenants , and could result in a dispute being settled against its best interests . |
| 9 | For ethical reasons , no social researcher should expose respondents to that possibility , and others over whom this threat does not hang or by whom it is treated lightly , such as ex-policemen and women or disgruntled members of the force , are too unrepresentative to give a balanced view of policing Therefore , it was necessary to undertake an overt study and to obtain permission for the research from the Chief Constable . |
| 10 | Such ‘ temporary exceedances ’ , said DoE , could be dealt with by natural denitrification in storage reservoirs , by blending or by using other sources . |
| 11 | Rosé Champagne is achieved either by blending or by allowing the black grape skins ( Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier ) to stay in contact with the juice long enough to impart a pale rose colour . |
| 12 | The Assistant Government Agent at Matara agreed that the establishment of village tribunals had led to a decrease in the number of police court cases , but asked ‘ what good end is obtained by merely removing the scene of litigation from one set of courts to another , and doubling the amount of litigation in the process , and how it is supposed that by increasing litigation twofold the peace and harmony of the district is secured , and litigation robbed of all the rancour and bad feelings it engenders in the ordinary courts ? ’ |
| 13 | More recent figures suggest that by 1987 Albanians amounted to as much as 85 per cent of the population of Kosovo . |
| 14 | These facts , coupled with population growth , suggest that by the year 2000 most of the remaining forests will have disappeared and been replaced with subsistence farming with a little surplus income derived from cash crops . |
| 15 | The territorial readjustments of 1475 suggest that by then the queen 's interest in East Anglia was regarded as the main instrument of royal authority there . |
| 16 | Projections by the Government Actuary suggest that by 2001 these proportions will have increased to 47.2 per cent and 12.1 per cent respectively ( Falkingham , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | The careers of other scholars of the period who reached the highest mevleviyets likewise suggest that by this time teaching on at least two levels of medreses beyond the Sahn had become customary , the top level being composed of the Suleymaniye medreses and the later imperial medreses , such as those of Selim II and Murad III . |
| 18 | The territorial readjustments of 1475 suggest that by then the queen 's interest in East Anglia was regarded as the main instrument of royal authority there . |
| 19 | Well I 'm saying I still do n't know , the figures that I 'm being given suggest that by Friday , erm or by Monday , we 'll have sufficient to meet the orders of . |
| 20 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 21 | You should all know that by now , ’ he said half humorously . |
| 22 | But I do know that by midsummer I had started to write a love-story . |
| 23 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 24 | But , however innocent his presence at Grandmont may have been , we do know that by the winter of early 1183 Geoffrey was playing a very devious game indeed . |
| 25 | Do n't you know that by now the Press will have dug up everything they can about your past ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 'll know that by the new year , ’ John said . |
| 27 | ‘ You must know that by now , but do you love me ? ’ |
| 28 | Charlie Malone , a shop steward and one of the sacked workers , promised that by the end of the campaign there would be 300 fewer people on the dole . |
| 29 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 30 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |