Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [is] by " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 One important method used to sell benefits is by branding products .
3 The other main method of locating sites is by magnetic surveying .
4 This group of teaching aids is by far the most important , and should not be regarded as second rate .
5 But one way of generating or protecting and stabilizing conventions is by authoritative intervention .
6 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 …
7 His somewhat unorthodox methods are explained in his letterpress for Birds of Australia : ’ [ One ] successful mode of procuring specimens is by wearing a tail of a full-plumaged male in the hat , keeping it constantly in motion , and concealing the person among the brushes , when the attention of the bird being arrested by the apparent intrusion of another of its own sex , it will be attracted within the range of the gun … ’
8 An easy way to impress novices is by quoting the latin names of various sea creatures .
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