Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [is] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | That it is inconceivable that after this number of centuries man still believes that ultimately the only way in which problems are solved is by blowing the other chap 's head off , which is so lunatic now . |
| 2 | Whatever they 're doing is by their own choice . ’ |
| 3 | One way in which such factors are isolated is by comparing parents known to batter their children with a control group of parents who have no history of child abuse ( Lynch and Roberts 1977 , for example ) . |
| 4 | Such phyla so persist because the only way they can be recognized is by reference to themselves . |
| 5 | As Task 55 suggests , another way in which discourse type can be recognized is by title . |
| 6 | The submission which Mr. Lester makes on the other hand is not restricted by reference to the type of statute and indeed the only way in which it could be discovered whether help was to be given is by considering Hansard itself . |
| 7 | Both need our help , but the help that they should be given is by their own Government , by the full implementation of resolutions 706 and 712 . |
| 8 | The only way in which this ambiguity can be resolved is by appealing to higher levels of information such as syntax , semantics , pragmatics and general knowledge . |
| 9 | The only way in which visual recognition of a word can be primed is by previously seeing the word . |
| 10 | The only way in which these late pouch excisions are likely to be minimised is by greater care in patient selection , particularly the identification of Crohn 's disease . |
| 11 | One way in which the terms of competition in the single market may be affected is by granting state subsidies which favour certain undertakings or the production of certain goods in such a way as to affect inter-state trade . |
| 12 | The second main way in which a Christian 's mind can be affected is by allowing alien presuppositions to enter and dominate afterwards . |
| 13 | The only way the magnitude of this building may be grasped is by seeing the model of Prague in the Prague City Museum ( see p. 158 ) . |
| 14 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 15 | Investment is financed out of saving and the last way in which the level of savings can possibly be increased is by the imposition of extra taxes on it . |
| 16 | Another way that firms may be characterised is by their use of research consultants . |
| 17 | Apart from point mutation , another way in which oncogenes can be activated is by over expression . |
| 18 | A naive goal is any state in which the crate to be delivered is by the door . |
| 19 | Once alcohol has reached the blood , the only way it can be removed is by the liver . |
| 20 | The only way in which the discrimination between A and B can be enhanced is by some process that reduces the role of the c elements in producing generalization from A to B. It is not apparent that establishing associations between A and X and between B and Y will do this , even though X and Y themselves hold rather few ( z ) elements in common . |
| 21 | One way in which these objectives can be achieved is by improving communication between members of staff . |
| 22 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 23 | The only way in which this could be changed is by a revolution in the system of global inequality . |
| 24 | As the distribution of collapse breccias is not related to any particular facies , the only way that their presence can be predicted is by identifying areas where uplift and exposure has occurred . |
| 25 | The principal way in which the behaviour has been elucidated is by numerical solutions of the equations ; one starts with some initial condition for ( X , Y , Z ) and integrates forward in t . |
| 26 | One of the main ways in which the integration of information presented in successive sentences of a discourse has been investigated is by looking at memory for discourse . |
| 27 | One way in which liaison ( and confusion ) has been institutionalized is by use of agency agreements between authorities . |
| 28 | The two sentences are not ‘ equivalents ’ of each other , but they are quoted here to show that , in spite of the fact that the last mention of the particular participant being traced is by pronominal reference in the English version and by a proper noun in the Portuguese version , English still prefers to pick up the reference in the new paragraph by means of a pronoun while Portuguese prefers lexical repetition . |
| 29 | As we will see in Chapter 9 , one way in which the organisation of the mental lexicon is being investigated is by studying the kinds of language disorders which adults suffer as a result of certain kinds of brain damage . |
| 30 | One way in which this has been achieved is by devising larger units for education in which physical geography is more closely allied with other earth and environmental sciences as noted by Clayton ( 1980a ) . |