Example sentences of "[verb] [is] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word . |
| 2 | The only way that illegal wildlife trade will be successfully curbed is by governments committing more time and resources to do so . |
| 3 | The arbitrary implications of undefinable rights are particularly evident where the right claimed is by its nature not capable of being satisfied by any degree of compulsion exercised within the relevant society . |
| 4 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 5 | Erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees , and the answer that most of them are employed and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going , redundancies are being made , you 've got a pensioner employee er a pensioner trustee on there , and they 're not looking over their shoulder for their job , they are going to do the job of a trustee and watch the fund and they would then be able to go to the regulator if they saw something that was amiss , but if somebody is employed by the firm might be very worried about doing because they 're more bothered about keeping their job . |
| 6 | The longest follow up reported is by O'Sullivan . |
| 7 | Er I think we must remind ourselves that er this year 's as I say is by no means er generous and for that reason we 're not aiming higher , not because we would n't like to , but because we recognize the , the restrictions placed from elsewhere . |
| 8 | Building surveying is by definition a very technical skill . |
| 9 | The only way in which this ambiguity can be resolved is by appealing to higher levels of information such as syntax , semantics , pragmatics and general knowledge . |
| 10 | The BHF says the best way to slim is by losing just over 1lb a week , reducing energy intake to 1000 calories a day , cutting down on fat and alcohol and eating only moderate salt . |
| 11 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 12 | Everything that happens is by design and purpose . |
| 13 | The only way in which these late pouch excisions are likely to be minimised is by greater care in patient selection , particularly the identification of Crohn 's disease . |
| 14 | yo you 're suggesting is what is happening now and so many of us he no he not just here but in population generally belong to all sorts of pressure groups erm whatever they may be like Greenpeace and many others erm really it 's , it 's a jolly hard slog , the point is that erm it the lid is on the kettle the whole time and it 's only , the only way that people can get anything done is by joining these organizations erm but it 's a very slow business erm but there 's no other way of doing anything because you ca n't change what happens at the top . |
| 15 | A hospital dealing with the mentally handicapped is by no stretch of the imagination a candidate for the market mechanism . |
| 16 | THE DESIGN SHOWN IS BY BERNARD , IN THREE SHADES OF BROWN . |
| 17 | But when you are really up against it there are times when the only way to win is by a little crafty reinterpretation of the rules . |
| 18 | Nature 's way of regulating overpopulation as many third world countries know is by famine and disease , a slow and agonising process . |
| 19 | One way in which such factors are isolated is by comparing parents known to batter their children with a control group of parents who have no history of child abuse ( Lynch and Roberts 1977 , for example ) . |
| 20 | The only way in which students can make ends meet is by getting into debt . |
| 21 | One way in which the terms of competition in the single market may be affected is by granting state subsidies which favour certain undertakings or the production of certain goods in such a way as to affect inter-state trade . |
| 22 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 23 | The only way the magnitude of this building may be grasped is by seeing the model of Prague in the Prague City Museum ( see p. 158 ) . |
| 24 | The title of his last book , Possible Worlds , gives a key to the process : that the world we inhabit is by no means the only one , but only one of any number we may care to imagine . |
| 25 | Whatever they 're doing is by their own choice . ’ |
| 26 | The distinction between knowing and doing is by no means clear-cut , but the real problem arises with the third stance identified in Figure 2.1 , that of ‘ being ’ . |
| 27 | I mean the only way measure it I suppose is by talking to them . |
| 28 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 29 | One method of dating finds is by the use of typology , the importance of which was demonstrated by Pitt-Rivers . |
| 30 | The only way in which this could happen is by chance in a small population : outsiders do come in at long odds . |