Example sentences of "[adv] by [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such lapses were seized upon eagerly by Lewis 's jealous academic colleagues .
2 Present as each crisis arose , its footage from around the world was sought eagerly by stations both at home and abroad .
3 They clambered up onto the floor , followed eagerly by George who practically fell over them in his clumsy desire to get in .
4 Copies of what amounts to a new constitution were seized eagerly by people on the streets .
5 Where the continuity of management is broken , eg by holidays or illness , there is an obligation to make alternative arrangements to ensure adequate supervision .
6 ALL existing 3-D cameras infer the third dimension indirectly ( eg by parallax ) .
7 Produce pieces of writing in which there is a more successful attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by layout , headings , paragraphing , verse structure ; in which sentence punctuation is almost always accurately used ; in which any direct speech is clearly set out and punctuated ; and in which simple uses of the comma , eg in lists , after long adverbials , are handled successfully .
8 Produce pieces of writing in which there is a rudimentary attempt to present simple subject matter in a structured way , eg by means of a title and paragraphs or verses ; in which sentence punctuation ( capital letters , full stops , question marks and exclamation marks ) is generally accurately used ; and in which there is some evidence of an ability to set out and punctuate any direct speech in a way that makes meaning clear to the reader .
9 ( c ) For reselection purposes Panel members will be expected to have undertaken appropriate training courses to update their knowledge , and to be in a position ( eg by training records ) to demonstrate this .
10 ( iii ) For reselection purposes panel members will be expected to have undertaken appropriate training courses to update their knowledge , and to be in a position ( eg by training records ) to demonstrate this .
11 If proceedings are commenced by the wrong originating process , eg by summons rather than by originating application , such a breach of the rules is not necessarily fatal — thecourt may set the proceedings aside or it may allow them to be amended and give such directions as it thinks fit ( Ord 37 , r 5 ) .
12 Can you raise income to cover costs ? eg by publications or allowing outside participants on courses .
13 There was no other way out of the building than through here , though the girls may have had a secret exit of their own , and this antechamber was guarded more fiercely by Nubenehem than ever a desert demon guarded its cave .
14 I have also been criticized fiercely by philosophers for using imaginary time .
15 Other trains , some also newly arrived , stood emptily by platforms , their passengers long since departed .
16 The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly .
17 Lt.-Col. Augustin Ndindiliyimana , hitherto Minister for Transport and Communications , was appointed to the new post of Minister in the Presidency responsible for Defence ( the Defence portfolio had been held hitherto by Habyarimana ) .
18 Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ .
19 In the Collembola and Diplura all the antennal segments except the last contain intrinsic muscles , the antenna grows postembryonically by division of the terminal segment and Johnston 's organ ( p. 129 ) is absent .
20 In the big top , Radio Cleveland entertain in the morning followed at 2pm by Radio 2 's John Sachs who will be inviting listeners to take part in the Bank Holiday Quiz and It 's Your Radio 2 .
21 Always greet the guest warmly by name and say something pleasant , never argue or contradict , and avoid controversial conversation .
22 Those relating to measurement are usually done much better by boys .
23 And if that does n't sound better than a Paul Daniels tape , I 'll eat my copy of Nobody Does It Better by Carly Simons .
24 Services can at least do better by parents with learning difficulties in the future than they have in the past .
25 For example , although most retail grocery advertising in the UK used to consist of lists of prices , and consumers tended to expect it to do so , it is unrealistic to expect advertising to do the major job of communicating large numbers of prices , especially promotional prices , when this can be done far better by window bills and in-store display : there are few shoppers who analyse every available grocery ad before deciding where to shop .
26 Chemical engineering companies found that their very large complex expensive process plants could be controlled better by computer than by human operators .
27 The employee therefore see his involvement in a union , or support for his union , to be the best means of securing his personal objectives ( eg. through extra pay or shorter working hours ) or the employee may consider that his own goals would be furthered better by loyalty to senior managers in the organisation and acceptance of the organisation 's goals .
28 Channel four : ‘ better by design'
29 For instance , an extra demand at home or abroad for goods made either cheaper or better by electronics will add to employment .
30 Since pupils often learn far better by doing than by listening or looking , documents can be useful for a variety of active learning situations .
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