Example sentences of "would [be] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Control would be by ‘ Dual Key ’ . |
| 2 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 3 | In the UK the only practical , and politically acceptable , way of creating such ‘ wilderness areas , , would be by freehold purchase ( e.g. by NCC or NT ) involving buying out any existing tenancies or rights and by fencing out the whole unit . |
| 4 | In the UK the only practical , and politically acceptable , way of creating such ‘ wilderness areas ’ would be by freehold purchase ( e.g. by NCC or NT ) involving buying out any existing tenancies or rights and by fencing out the whole unit . |
| 5 | Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem . |
| 6 | This looks like a case of a random example ; for the only problem it could create would be by failing to fall within a category of admissible wordings . |
| 7 | She had not decided whether or not to tell Dick , but if he were to be told it would be by her , not by the Longhills . |
| 8 | There is no special dispensation for accountants , but if the firm could obtain its own individual dispensation , this would be by far the best solution . |
| 9 | He could put the past behind him ; whatever was to happen now would be by his own endeavour , his own will . |
| 10 | All the hobbitic jokes are doing , then , is to reflect and by intention deflect the modern inhibition over high styles which we and they share ; if we were not embarrassed by the hobbits , in other words , we would be by the heroes . |
| 11 | Assessment would be by a combination of assignments , usually practical ( e.g. , prepare a magazine ) , projects and formal examinations . |
| 12 | The production of these ideological forms would be by people whose labour is mental rather than material , whose product has effects in a world of ideas and social relations rather than the material world of objects . |
| 13 | The most obvious way of doing this would be by seeking to invoke the protection afforded to freedom of conscience under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 14 | Others ( who were more justly accused of commercial megalomania or electrical messianism by critics ) felt that the ‘ all-electric ’ future was near at hand , and that it was only a matter of time before all heating — continuous or intermittent — would be by electricity . |
| 15 | If we conceive of the least pleasant experience which is still a pleasure , then one way of quantifying its intensity would be by characterising the number of times more pleasant a pleasure is at a particular moment than that . |
| 16 | There are many less ACE machines around than we thought there would be by this time , ’ he added . |
| 17 | The arrangement would be by country , county , town , street , then number . |
| 18 | Another way of expressing this would be by means of correlation . |
| 19 | Micro-instruction sequencing in this case would be by the automatic incrementation of a microprogram counter ; jump instructions are then required as in conventional programming . |
| 20 | He pointed out quite reasonably that defending an old lady from assault on a tube train could conceivably be described as extremely responsible behaviour and doubtless would be by most right-thinking members of society , Polly 's opinion notwithstanding . |
| 21 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 22 | A rogue telephoned expressing an interest in buying the articles and the plaintiff provisionally agreed with him that the payment would be by a building society cheque in the plaintiff 's favour . |
| 23 | Listing would be by statutory instrument made on the advice of an advisory committee . |
| 24 | A more accurate way of conveying the thought that men exist or that dragons are fictional would be by saying " For some ( at least one ) x , x is a man " and " Nothing is a dragon " ; employing expressions , that is , that correspond to what logicians call , " quantifiers " , and enable us to dispel any lingering illusion that existential propositions might have a subject/predicate structure . |
| 25 | Thus a more natural way of asserting the existence of men would be by saying " Some living creatures are men " , or something along these lines ; employing , that is , a proposition of the " Some 5 are P " type . |
| 26 | Access would be by debit card , and the use of credit cards would diminish . |
| 27 | In addressing these conflicting aims , the Institute 's Council , in 1987 determined that from 1997 entry would be by examination only . |
| 28 | Whilst some evidence suggested that repeated construal might break into this circle , a more effective way would be by making available the construals of others . |
| 29 | Thus the only way by which the government might achieve a higher level of output would be by cheating , by not following the rule it says it will follow . |
| 30 | Consent for dumping would be by way of a licence issued by the Scottish Office Agricultural and Fisheries Department . |