Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the means/ends equation , I mean the assumption that what the learner has eventually to achieve by way of language ability should determine what he does in the process of acquiring that ability . |
| 2 | One has only to travel by train from the north-east of England to see the land which has been set aside , squeezed between the railway lines , to realise what the farmers are doing . |
| 3 | Fly here to stand by my side , sweet lady , for we can further the walls of Christendom on this isle in goodly state . |
| 4 | Nor could he avoid reminding Charlotte of the hopeful turn Colin 's case had taken — a turn to which she had made a significant contribution — while her niece 's plight seemed only to worsen by the day . |
| 5 | Il Moro sailed conservatively to win by 1 min 53 sec , a smaller margin that the 3 min 11 sec New Zealand scored easily over France 's Ville de Paris , the Kiwi boat gaining the advantage at the start and looking sharp right round the track . |
| 6 | And women in many developed countries are tending increasingly to adjust by forming non-legal unions that often produce offspring . |
| 7 | The thorough and accomplished virtuoso , the reasonable and methodical teacher , the learned musician — these characteristics … are all here revealed in one … for many of those , too , who profess the violin will here find instruction , and will do well to profit by this great master 's teaching , so as no longer to spoil their pupils with bad precepts . |
| 8 | It is made easier to remember by inserting a decimal point after the first three numbers , and by grouping subsequent digits into threes , for example 641.738 423 . |
| 9 | The terms can be made easier to understand by using a numbering system to make the structure clear . |
| 10 | JONAS SAVIMBI , the Unita leader , was pressed yesterday to abide by ‘ the letter and spirit ’ of the agreement reached in June with the Angolan government which should have ended fighting in that country , writes John Bulloch . |
| 11 | Here it is enough to note the invariable practice of including in a partnership agreement ( Clause 26 ) a provision which requires an outgoing partner , or his representatives , to join in a continuation election under s113 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 upon being requested so to do by the continuing partners . |
| 12 | He conceded a treble at the next end but then raced away to win by 11 clear shots . |
| 13 | He kicked open the doors to bedroom and kitchen , established that there was no one hiding behind them , and then raced across to kneel by Ray Doyle . |
| 14 | I would like therefore to begin by looking briefly at that context and then move onto the skills which the diplomates will train their students to achieve , the level of skills their students are likely to have already and outline some of the issues met by the Dip . |
| 15 | This exercise is rendered easier to perform by the fact that Charles is not lying beside her to observe and ask ironic questions about it . |
| 16 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 17 | But once clear Musicale strode away to score by one length on tacky ground . |
| 18 | Some will be scholarship holders , sent abroad to study by their own governments in order to Increase the supply of educated , trained and skilled people in their home economies . |
| 19 | Hector had run ahead to hover by the front door , whining a little . |
| 20 | Move right to belay by a shallow corner . |
| 21 | when directed so to do by the police constable ( or the traffic warden ) in the execution of his duty . |
| 22 | ‘ when directed so to do by the police constable or the traffic warden ) in the execution of his duty ’ . |
| 23 | Having tried unsuccessfully to negotiate by telephone a compromise truce with Mola and other rebel commanders , he in turn resigned and was replaced by Azaña 's friend José Giral . |
| 24 | Other testimonials to Dury 's character proved hard to come by . |
| 25 | The European Commission 's report by the Ruding Committee on tax distortions in the internal market was questioned by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland for the ‘ piecemeal approach ’ it put forward to harmonise by directives on individual items . |
| 26 | Naturally the monks of St Denis , who had most to gain by it , were happy to keep Suger 's tradition fresh . |
| 27 | The Communist Party had most to gain by combination with other groups , for with its strong discipline it could always hope to attract supporters from allied groups without losing many of its own members . |
| 28 | Then it all went wrong for Hamilton , who dropped four strokes in four holes from the 11th as the chill wind began to take its toll and Davis romped away to win by five strokes . |
| 29 | He flashed signals back to me and then ran downstairs to check by telephone to see if the message had been sent and received correctly . |
| 30 | The author does well to illustrate by quotation from the Philosophie Zoologique Lamarck 's own conception of Lamarckism — and it is interesting that Lamarck 's first and second laws are by no means incompatible with Darwinism . |