Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , on some sites you might say , no , I , well I can control the labour costs and I can control the er , plant usage , but I do n't buy the materials myself the only way I can affect them is by altering the wastage . |
| 2 | The Town Boys in a way are an enigma , and how one joins them is by no means easy to discover . |
| 3 | One way of explaining them is by reference to institutional features of these societies . |
| 4 | I suppose every one has to earn their keep , and the way to catch them is by using the old , traditional Scottish fishing method of trolling . |
| 5 | Some say it 's by far the more challenging of the two . |
| 6 | If the system has succeeded it is by enhancing that control . |
| 7 | Despite the tough measures of May 10th , the opinion polls say he is by far France 's favourite politician . |
| 8 | The fact that they have seen nothing is by no means an immediate death blow for all grand unified theories . |
| 9 | The Sheriff says it 's by his own hand . |
| 10 | I have already cast some doubt on point ( b ) , or at least on the political effects which Marx assumed would be consequent on the concentration of labour ( Chapter 1 ) , while in the discussion of planning I argued that although point ( a ) may be broadly accepted it is by no means unproblematic , particularly given the fact that large-scale enterprises increasingly straddle national boundaries . |
| 11 | trained and nevertheless it is a disturbing thing and the development of this County has to do , not only with businesses succeeding and also with people who are actually making those businesses work and the only way you can do it is by having people employed doing useful things . |
| 12 | The only way you can do it is by pleading . |
| 13 | The poem St Erkenwald is a variant of that tale ; some people have argued it is by the author of Sir Gawain and Pearl . |
| 14 | The popular notion that words do not hurt you is by no means endorsed among women survivors of male violence . |
| 15 | And another way I can hurt you is er mentally and the third way I can hurt you is by combining the two together . |
| 16 | Indeed , the only real way one can pinpoint it is by saying that in it the notion of suspense , of repeated and ever-growing suspense , predominates . |
| 17 | They also did their best to lose the great dome in a jostling scrum of office buildings , so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce . |
| 18 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 19 | Others of us have to cultivate this talent , and the way to do it is by constantly asking yourself that question , " What will the Reader want next " ? |
| 20 | pulls you up do that goes that way , does that goes that way so you 're upside down you see , you 've not only got weight and gravity pulling you down you 've also got the thrust of the engine pulling you down as well , and the only way the helicopters going to be able to do it is by getting enough height so they can sort of drop like that and they start dropping and they can just pull it back |
| 21 | Well instead of going and destroying utility plants such as power plants and desalination plants , there are actually easier way and a less expensive way to do it is by attacking like sub-stations which erm actually you do n't destroy the power plant , you just destroy the erm source where you can distribute electricity to the whole country . |
| 22 | There are others who insist that games and exercises per se have no place in the drama lesson , that the best way to learn about drama and to learn how to use it is by doing it , that if the drama itself is powerful and effective there is no need to prepare children for it by doing something else . |
| 23 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 24 | You 're not , you 've not got your councillors coming forward and er you know that , which , which I would like because the , the only way you 'll get your , get anything is by sort of working for it and erm we are very proud you know , I do n't know whether you 've , you must 've seen the book you know erm the , the was brought out the centenary , the eighty-three and er , I mean er , er there 's an awful lot of information there . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ Producers need a powerful signal and a good way to send one is by returning non-refillable and non-returnable packaging . ’ |
| 26 | The more sales a dealer produces , the more revered he is by the rest . |
| 27 | Tamburlaine is in fact a very complex character , far removed from the ‘ barbarous ’ and ‘ incivil ’ man that we are led to believe he is by Mycetes , Cosroe and Meander . |
| 28 | Make sure that , sure they 're good quality photographs , normally black and white , sharp , appropriate and so forth , and make sure that you 've got sufficient details associated with it , often a good way of doing it is by having a , something typed on a slip of paper which is just very slightly stuck to the , to the back so the editor can actually see what the thing is and can take it off if he needs to when the picture is actually being reproduced . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember the actual year , but I know , I mean it 's by the eighteen forties , it 's the eighteen forties . |
| 30 | I 'll try to spare you that , but I guess it 's about time I came clean and admitted it 's by no means a one-man show . |