Example sentences of "[vb pp] [be] 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 | The longest follow up reported is by O'Sullivan . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We also learn that family structure and sentiments which we take for granted are by no means universal , that forms of government that seem inevitable and natural are not necessarily so ; we confront the unpalatable finding that a strong sense of brotherhood and identity within a community usually implies equally strong hostilities towards outsiders . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of the worst designs I have seen are by architects for themselves . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The last time that I heard that argument so brazenly presented was by Mr. Neville Chamberlain 's spokesman before the war . |
| 12 | Until that time , the only statutory means by which payments of arrears in excess of the then statutory limit of 12 months could be made was by means of a late appeal to the social security appeal . |
| 13 | A hospital dealing with the mentally handicapped is by no stretch of the imagination a candidate for the market mechanism . |
| 14 | THE DESIGN SHOWN IS BY BERNARD , IN THREE SHADES OF BROWN . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Another way that firms may be characterised is by their use of research consultants . |
| 20 | The one illustrated is by First Alert : like most types it can be simply screwed into a ceiling . |
| 21 | The principal way in which the behaviour has been elucidated is by numerical solutions of the equations ; one starts with some initial condition for ( X , Y , Z ) and integrates forward in t . |
| 22 | Investment is financed out of saving and the last way in which the level of savings can possibly be increased is by the imposition of extra taxes on it . |
| 23 | Apart from point mutation , another way in which oncogenes can be activated is by over expression . |
| 24 | The programme was a proud occasion for the club , since apart from the opening ballet , Aurora 's Wedding , all the works given were by South African choreographers . |
| 25 | The actions which have to be taken are by definition inward ones — things we can do ourselves . |
| 26 | The first complaints to be formally filed were by British Columbia , Canadian raspberry producers and an Ontario paving company on April 6 , 1989 . |
| 27 | Once alcohol has reached the blood , the only way it can be removed is by the liver . |
| 28 | A naive goal is any state in which the crate to be delivered is by the door . |
| 29 | As we will see in Chapter 9 , one way in which the organisation of the mental lexicon is being investigated is by studying the kinds of language disorders which adults suffer as a result of certain kinds of brain damage . |
| 30 | One of the main ways in which the integration of information presented in successive sentences of a discourse has been investigated is by looking at memory for discourse . |