Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Application for admission may be by the nearest relative or an approved social worker . |
| 2 | It is important to recognize that division must be by one principle at a time . |
| 3 | Pupils ' progress should be registered against these levels : level 2 should be assumed to represent the performance of the median 7 year old ; level 4 that of the median 11 year old ; the boundary between levels 5 and 6 that of the median 14 year old ; and the boundary between levels 6 and 7 that of the median 16 year old ; ( d ) assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessments by teachers . |
| 4 | assessment should be by a combination of national externally set Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) and assessment by teachers . |
| 5 | This possibility will seem unacceptable only to critics who insist that election must be by votes cast directly and personally for the successful candidate . |
| 6 | In the case of unregistered land this description should be by reference to an attached plan . |
| 7 | This association may be by virtue of some formal semantic connection ( good , for example , associates with its opposite bad ; animal with any example of an animal like horse ; violin with orchestra of which it is a part ) , or it may be because words are felt to belong to some more vaguely defined lexical group ( rock star ; world tour ; millionaire ; yacht ) . |
| 8 | The Masonic Religion should be by all of us initiates of the high degrees maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine . |
| 9 | This extraction should be by way of a dividend , not a buy-in of any of the parent company 's shares , as the latter would not be a dividend which could be made under a group income election and would be a part-disposal of the parent company 's shares for capital gains tax purposes . |
| 10 | In addressing these conflicting aims , the Institute 's Council , in 1987 determined that from 1997 entry would be by examination only . |
| 11 | The main method of research will be by personal interview and discussion with senior officials and other public figures . |
| 12 | Observing that Tschudi can be shown to have made keyboards with ‘ skunktail ’ sharps ( quite exceptionally on the 1766 instruments for Frederick the Great ) , Dale rashly conjectures that the instrument seen in the Mercier portrait might be by Tschudi even though it bears no resemblance to the 1729 harpsichord or anything that subsequently emerged from the Meard Street or Great Pultney Street workshops . |
| 13 | Kurtag is Ligeti 's opposite — a divergent musical thinker whose every new work might be by another composer , were it not for the extreme compression that is constant to his style . |
| 14 | However , building such a machine will be by no means easy . |
| 15 | Separation can be by road marking , but is more effective when done with trees or plant strips . |
| 16 | To be more precise : the active working-class militant or potential leader must be by definition an ‘ agitator ’ , since he could not be fitted into the stereotype of obedience , dullness and stupidity . |
| 17 | Another route to a part-time job might be by looking at the cards in newsagents ' windows , or asking as your local Job Centre or office of Professional and Executive Recruitment , addresses of which will be in your local Yellow Pages . |
| 18 | Liam Parker , assistant chief librarian with the Belfast Education and Library Board , said : ‘ On average , up to 25pc of our book borrowing would be by children and in some branches the figure is as high as 35pc . ’ |
| 19 | The method of investigation will be by interviews with relevant personnel within the company and with computer companies . |
| 20 | Payment at today 's price may be by a single lump sum or by instalments . |
| 21 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 22 | It proposed that the minimum threshold for representation in the assembly should be " relatively low " to allow for the widest possible representation , and that decisions within the assembly should be by a two-thirds majority . |
| 23 | Thus the only way by which the government might achieve a higher level of output would be by cheating , by not following the rule it says it will follow . |
| 24 | The Loughborough departure will be by DMU at 1925 and Leicester steam-hauled at 1930 . |
| 25 | Evidence of the proportion of alcohol in a specimen of breath , blood or urine may be by a document which is : |
| 26 | Viewing may be by transmitted light , CL , or a combination of the two , observed through a lead glass window which absorbs X-radiation . |
| 27 | Both in case of a straightforward sale as well as in case of delegating the management of state assets , the choice of purchaser or manager must be by tender , which is public unless the board of directors of the agency restricts the tenders of those specifically invited to submit offers . |
| 28 | It is convenient first to consider a jurisdictional point raised by Mr. Beloff , who submitted that the only proper mode of challenge by the plaintiffs to the validity of the notice must be by way of judicial review against the Bank of England , rather than by way of an action against the defendants for injunctive relief , since in a normal case ( i.e. one without an injunction ) there would be no question of a customer having locus in any court other than by way of judicial review . |
| 29 | The first attempt to retrieve the lost ferret must be by the use of a line ferret fitted with a transmitting device . |
| 30 | Listing would be by statutory instrument made on the advice of an advisory committee . |