Example sentences of "or by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation can be prevented by being prepared to release immediately if things start to go wrong , or by being ready to stop the wing coming up suddenly . |
| 2 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 3 | The two bodies are often at loggerheads , and there are constant disputes over methods : are the newcomers best served by direct absorption — being given money and subsidies for their first year and then left to cope on their own , or by being placed in one of the 38 Jewish Agency absorption centres . |
| 4 | It gets into water supplies in two ways : either from acid soils , where it becomes soluble at low pH ( there are huge amounts in the soil and these are washed out by acid rain where there is little organic matter to bind the aluminium ) , or by being deliberately added to peaty water to remove the suspended organic matter and make the water clear , by a similar chemical process . |
| 5 | The playback can he displayed either over the viewfinder so you can check your recordings as you go or by being connected to an external television screen or monitor . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't find inspiration from a popstar lifestyle or by being part of the establishment . |
| 7 | The initiations are encouraged by sniffing the fruit or by being shown a colour sample of red . |
| 8 | Would-be ambassadors thus continued to be trained , in so far as they were trained at all , by the time-honoured method of acting as secretaries to older and more experienced diplomats , or by being attached in some subordinate capacity to one of their country 's embassies abroad . |
| 9 | She hoped that she would not disgrace herself by fainting , or by being unable to help him through fear or disgust of what she might be seeing . |
| 10 | Of these , 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps . |
| 11 | It could be eg. through the accreditation of prior learning which is fast gaining ground , or by being credited with a learning outcome or two , or by being placed on a more advanced module . |
| 12 | It could be eg. through the accreditation of prior learning which is fast gaining ground , or by being credited with a learning outcome or two , or by being placed on a more advanced module . |
| 13 | Where any Member is unavoidably absent from the House on that day , through sickness or by being abroad , the scrutineers will make arrangements to receive their votes . |
| 14 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 15 | And so , Nicodemus learned that it was n't by reformation , trying to make himself better , or by being religious , but he need regeneration , that 's what regeneration means . |