Example sentences of "[subord] by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how the problem can be circumvented , except by being so much better than your opponent that even the most biased referee is forced to acknowledge your scores . |
| 2 | I ca n't help Ana except by being a friend and that 's not enough . |
| 3 | There is no better way of establishing the sea than by being lunged and it is a great pity that beginner riders are so frequently taught by the most junior members of staff . |
| 4 | Thus there is a move towards active documents , where part of a document ( for instance a table ) can be generated by running a program rather than by being wired in . |
| 5 | I saw how protective he is about her , and how could he protect her better than by being married to her . |
| 6 | Whether ground was distinguished from sky in any other way than by being outlined against it the evidence so far cited does not tell us , but probably some trees and flowers were shown on it , and it may have had something in the nature of shading . |
| 7 | We do believe however that mutually rewarding relationships with colleagues , with pupils and with the parents of our pupils can only really be developed within their local political context , rather than by being researched , reported on and learned about in the abstract . |
| 8 | It is as if by being able to make moral judgements people recognise , not simply an additional technical possibility , but something to which they wish to give ultimate significance . |
| 9 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |
| 10 | Or more generally , why should we want to find it out , whether by being told it or otherwise ? |
| 11 | They 're just as flexible in the way they can be reused — whether by being refilled with products or incinerated to recover energy . |
| 12 | He maintains he did not want to shoot her , but that he was angry with her and was also agitated by a huge bar bill , and as well as by being put in a particularly smokey corner of the night club . |
| 13 | He looked as though by being born he had sapped his mother 's strength and left her a used-up husk . |