Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [is] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easiest way to monitor change is by weighing regularly . |
| 2 | The only way the trust can be given effect is by construing it as charged on the intestate heir in favour of some other person . |
| 3 | Ratchet adjustment is by knurled ring . |
| 4 | A second way in which the courts have indirectly imposed a requirement to state reasons is by labelling the result reached in their absence as arbitrary . |
| 5 | SCO claims 31% of multi-user accounting systems costing under £50,000 installed in the UK run on its flavour of Unix , whilst London-based market research firm , Ovum Ltd — which says accounting is by far the largest application software sector in the UK — forecasts an annual growth rate of around 23% for the Unix-based accounting software market to 1995 . |
| 6 | The only way in which we can achieve sovereignty is by sharing it . |
| 7 | Most significant things , from marriages to murders , happen between people who know each other well , so the best way to reach people is by word of mouth in the right places . |
| 8 | One important method used to sell benefits is by branding products . |
| 9 | The Western Approaches project is by Walton Commercial Group , and is the first part of a multimillion pound upgrading of Exchange Buildings of which the basement project area forms part . |
| 10 | An alternative way of measuring unemployment is by asking a sample of the population whether they are unemployed . |
| 11 | The other main method of locating sites is by magnetic surveying . |
| 12 | This group of teaching aids is by far the most important , and should not be regarded as second rate . |
| 13 | When I said to you earlier erm there 's several ways in which you can help me now the main way you can help me is erm is er the way I do , the way I prefer to do business is by personal recommendations and you 've seen the service that I can give you , you 've seen , we 've been through your , your personal situation , your financial situation , have you found that of benefit ? |
| 14 | ‘ The only way we can draw attention is by blockading the road . |
| 15 | Ella must have reached Dotty 's by now . |
| 16 | One way of routinizing authority is by tradition . |
| 17 | But one way of generating or protecting and stabilizing conventions is by authoritative intervention . |
| 18 | I discovered only last year that he quickest way to forget problems is by leaving terra firma several hundred feet below you — the less firm — the more terra … |
| 19 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 20 | The only way to protect property is by the construction of bollards and barriers , but that requires the consent of landlords and planning authorities . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most obvious way to build strength is by training with weights . |
| 22 | On the other , he claims on the letters page ( Letters report ) that my suggestion — that the way to revitalise socialism is by rank and file activity at the grassroots — is no way forward because 97 per cent of workplaces employ fewer than 20 people . |
| 23 | There is an important strand in English thought , which is traceable to Hobbes 's idea of civitas , and which believes that the only way to preserve society is by acknowledging a perpetual sovereign power . |
| 24 | It is appalling that in 1991 the only way in which the Government want to save money is by cutting people 's pay and working conditions . |
| 25 | Southern California has decided that the way to control pollution is by law . |
| 26 | A second way in which the Spirit inspires prayer is by giving to the man in question the gift of tongues . |
| 27 | The other and most publicized method of registering opinion is by abstention or cross-voting . |
| 28 | They declared that the ‘ only way to defeat apartheid is by broadening the base of anti-apartheid forces ’ . |
| 29 | India 's population to surpass China 's by 2011 |
| 30 | She believes that the most efficient way for pupils to learn mathematics is by being told what to do , and preferably by a teacher , rather than a textbook . |