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

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1 Some say it 's by far the more challenging of the two .
2 If the system has succeeded it is by enhancing that control .
3 The Sheriff says it 's by his own hand .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The only way you can do it is by pleading .
7 The poem St Erkenwald is a variant of that tale ; some people have argued it is by the author of Sir Gawain and Pearl .
8 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 .
9 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 " ?
10 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
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 I ca n't remember the actual year , but I know , I mean it 's by the eighteen forties , it 's the eighteen forties .
15 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 .
16 Yeah , I think it is by the looks of things .
17 There may only be one ground for divorce — irretrievable breakdown — but the only way you can prove it is by proving you 've got one of five grounds going for you :
18 The only way you can justify it is by saying it 's a means to an end .
19 The only way to stop it is by pressing or forcing a " Too big " error .
20 The safest method of destroying it is by using the Ritual of Lightening from Lermontov 's Grimoire ( see New Magic for this item , and rules for different ways of destroying the Blackshard ) .
21 The Beggar claims it is by speaking of his troubles that he has himself been cured , after a severe change of fortune which has brought him from wealth to his present condition .
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