Example sentences of "it be by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate . |
| 2 | 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 : |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | You can see how Dorothy Sayers did it by having the victim being supposed to be actively painting when in fact he was dead , and it is by using some such piece of lateral thinking , making the victim provide the alibi in this instance , that the trick is probably most easily brought off . |
| 5 | The expectations gap is a complex phenomenon , and it is caused as much by financial reporting problems as it is by auditing ones . |
| 6 | And it is by bringing this institutional dimension into focus that we may fully appreciate the influence of Laski , who was Professor of Political Science at LSE from 1926 to 1950 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As far as the sense goes , we would be better to say that line B specifies the way in which God brings the army of the stars out in flaIl number : it is by summoning each one of them by name . |
| 9 | Although the relation is the same in both cases , the psychological aspect of compresence has the epistemological priority and it is by considering the " private compresence " of the parts of one total momentary experience that we must begin in trying to explain the possibility of an objective order in physical space-time . |
| 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 | It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery . |
| 12 | It is by influencing these local events that genes ultimately exert influences on the adult body . |
| 13 | But the important point to remember is that we do not observe these sociolinguistic patterns directly : it is the speech of individuals in conversational settings that we observe and describe , and it is by analysing a large quantity of spoken language from many speakers that we can then demonstrate the patterns that emerge from our data . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is by making use of this complexity of an extended observing participation I believe anthropology can edge beyond its contemporaries in the other social sciences , so that the ‘ thick description ’ which Geertz ( 1975 ) urged us to use , takes on the ‘ finer grain and detail ’ necessary for an anthropology at home ( MacDonald 1987 : 120 ) where access to the social group or community studied is readily available to any demand for analytic reassessment . |
| 16 | It is by making form perceptible through this parodic treatment of devices that a genre evolves . |
| 17 | In the long run it is by making efficient investment decisions that capacity is adjusted to ensure that this price also reflects long-run marginal cost . |
| 18 | But it is by mixing the personal and the cosmic in his reporting , just as the scientists mix them in their lives , that Mr Overbye has managed to write such a good book . |
| 19 | The only way to stop it is by pressing |
| 20 | According to Broadbent , it is no longer desirable to " ignore the resources of experience that students bring to higher education … it is by activating those resources in the academic arena that we might respond creatively to protest . " |
| 21 | Almost 25,000 balls has he sent down in Test cricket , and although Sir Richard Hadlee , in an otherwise gracious radio tribute immediately after the 400th wicket had been bagged , pointed to the greater number of Tests and deliveries needed by the Indian , it is by assessing the amount of support from the other end over the years that we gain a full picture of Kapil 's place in history : he has carried India 's bowling almost throughout his career . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The only way you can justify it is by saying it 's a means to an end . |
| 24 | Although awareness outlasts attention , it is by attending that one arrives at , maintains and renews it . |
| 25 | It is by subverting some of these synapses , and thus some of the brain 's pathways , that drugs produce pleasure . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The only way you can do it is by pleading . |
| 29 | It is by following up such topics that this subject can truly come alive for the reader — banking and finance ( domestic or international ) influence the everyday life of most people . |
| 30 | ‘ Marxism ’ , on the other hand , Sartre claims , ‘ is History itself becoming conscious of itself ’ ( I , 40 ) : as for Lukács , it is by becoming conscious of itself as the subject of history that the working class will understand history 's meaning — and so recognize itself as the meaning of history . |