Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [conj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authors add that by about this age , ‘ Stable structures have replaced earlier instabilities and can now be used in the service of new cognitive skills while keeping sexual drive components in greater isolation . ’ |
| 2 | The authors demonstrate that by means of rigorous and consistent aim-directed assessment and training the sixty-three young adults who underwent the ‘ Wentwood Experience ’ were enabled to be relatively less dependent on others in the basic skills of daily living . |
| 3 | Mainly suitable for main filtration the manufacturers claim that by stuffing it more tightly into your filter you can use it for pre-filtration too . |
| 4 | The new texts mean that by 1993 , Sotheby 's , Christie 's and Philllips will still only be able to prospect , but not sell , in France . |
| 5 | Projections by the Government Actuary suggest that by 2001 these proportions will have increased to 47.2 per cent and 12.1 per cent respectively ( Falkingham , 1987 ) . |
| 6 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 7 | Many observers believe that by the time he steps down in Brussels , at the end of 1992 , most small Irish farmers will have accepted his pension plan and he can return as the hero of rural Ireland . |
| 8 | New home office regulations mean that by pooling their resources the new East Midlands Air Support Unit can afford the latest and most powerful model on the market . |
| 9 | Other sources say that by the seventeenth century big , stately , black longhorns were being reared in Yorkshire , Derbyshire , Lancashire and Staffordshire and that by the eighteenth century there was a large , rangy , big-hoofed plough-ox type which could also give acceptable though ordinary meat and the cows could give reasonable milk well suited for cheese-making . |
| 10 | More recent figures suggest that by 1987 Albanians amounted to as much as 85 per cent of the population of Kosovo . |
| 11 | Modelling studies show that by rotation of main-chain torsion angles to achieve only allowed Ramachandran values ( Fig. 2 c ) and adjustments of the side-chain torsion angles , the side chains of His15 and Arg17 can be easily brought together to make a closed conformation ( Fig. 2 b ) suitable for accommodating a phosphoryl group ; adjustments of main-chain and side-chain torsion angles were made using the program TURBO-FRODO ( ref. 9 ; Biographics , Marseilles ) . |
| 12 | Provisional figures show that by December 1991 the number had fallen to 108,982 , a reduction of 41 per cent . |
| 13 | G. The farmers know that by growing much wheat and barley the soil is losing nitrogen . |
| 14 | The first department to input to the system was Archaeology and Documentation calculate that by the year 2003 they will have finally input all NMS records — approximately 600,000 entries . |
| 15 | But there is a bonus to that in that people hope that by testing their ideas about the uncertain physics , by building models of that early stage , that those models will have consequences for the things that get left behind in the universe for the present , and so they might be able to test their ideas about how matter behaves at very high density by using cosmology , and that 's very important because we have no other way of doing it . |
| 16 | Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ ! |
| 17 | Some people find that by thinking about head noises they become worse ; by consciously giving them attention they are less easily forgotten . |
| 18 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 19 | Diplomats think that by releasing General Tin Oo now , General Ne Win may be trying to counter the growing power of the MIS head , Khin Nyunt . |
| 20 | The scheme 's pioneers hope that by making sure you know where you are on the map you could save vital minutes if you ever have to call on the emergency services for help . |
| 21 | Similarly , it said : ’ Survey respondents indicate that by UK standards Northern investment levels will hold up quite well over the next 12 months . ’ |
| 22 | In Chalatenango , for example , the FMLN forces maintain that by preference , sexual relations should not occur outside of a matrimony ( understood in a broad sense and not implying either a civil or religious ceremony ) . |
| 23 | ( One of the most widely discussed population projections forecast that by the year 2033 , the total population of England and Wales would be no larger than that of the County of London in 1934 . ) |
| 24 | In 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change forecast that by 2070 the temperature would increase by 3.5C , implying a rise of 45 centimetres in the sea level . |
| 25 | These advances in molecular genetics mean that by using a combination of haplotype and mutation analysis prenatal diagnosis is now possible in the great majority of couples who already have a child with phenylketonuria , although this has been undertaken infrequently because paediatricians and parents see early treated children as ‘ healthy . ’ |
| 26 | As in the past preservation will be influenced not by what historians want but by the needs and fortunes of the social structures which created and guarded such information . |
| 27 | Police hope that by clearing porn shop shelves of the illegal material dealers will be forced to either sell legitimate publications or go bust . |
| 28 | However , politicians and human rights groups in Mexico , supported by a detailed June 1990 report by the US-based human rights group Americas Watch and by criticism from the US Congress , had accused the Federal Judicial police of over 800 cases of murder , torture , extortion and robbery during their anti-drug operations . |
| 29 | The new standards demand that by 1998 at least two per cent ( 40,000 ) of all new cars must emit no smog-producing gases at all , which means in effect that they must be powered by electricity . |
| 30 | Imamu is also subjected to physical torture when Perk goes missing and the police think that by torturing him , they will get some information out of him . |