Example sentences of "[v-ing] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bristol , Sally Alford had graduated to announcing by way of drama training and a stint in the PR department . |
| 2 | Not long after meeting him I went on a bus trip to a rally held in a big place where they had an enormous screen with Billy Graham appearing by satellite . |
| 3 | The background to the above was set out in a letter from the Operations branch at MEHQ dated 22 February , in which they proposed the use of L Detachment as parachutists in a tactical role , for seizing and holding ground in co-operation with other forces landing by sea or advancing across the desert . |
| 4 | At 72 he 's preparing to do it all again , landing by parachute along with scores of other veterans to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most famous battles in history . |
| 5 | Happening by chance to be employed in one of the most notoriously protest-prone university schools in the Western world , I have noticed an extraordinary anomaly in student protest behaviour which I invite my readers to compare with their own experience , which I think they will find quite closely comparable to my own . |
| 6 | And you 're talking to your mate and it 's all just happening by magic . |
| 7 | And attacks quite deliberate , not just happening by accident . |
| 8 | Of the three cases of Crohn 's disease with recurrent pouchitis , one remains on longterm low dose maintenance metronidazole and two have required temporary pouch defunctioning by loop ileostomy but have now been closed . |
| 9 | They may want security , er one case I 've been del dealing with they wanted the share certificates depositing by way of some security for instance . |
| 10 | The wound response of tomato plants can be inhibited by salicylic acid and agents like fusicoccin that affect ion transport , and wounding by heat or physical injury produces electrical activity that has similarities to the epithelial conduction system used to transmit a stimulus in the defence responses of some lower animals . |
| 11 | Cases of wounding by pistol shots occasionally came before the courts and in at least one instance a child was killed , although apparently by accident , which nevertheless brought great notoriety to the so-called ‘ Clerkenwell Pistol Gang ’ . |
| 12 | The action takes place in a Magnox power station where a guide ‘ struggling with the limited conceptual understanding of the local Mayor and Lady Tiara ’ , starts explaining by analogy . |
| 13 | Were we to understand , perhaps , that their heroic ding-dong battle was essentially sexual , ending by implication in a rape ? |
| 14 | If booking by telephone , please ring York ( 0904 ) 658338 and your tickets will be posted to you . |
| 15 | This is heard as an anticipation of the next chord , resolving by scale step . |
| 16 | These two processes are implemented in reading as word recognition via a purely graphemic route or via a phonological route , and they are also implemented as spelling by reliance upon visual pattern and by reliance upon phonetic pattern . |
| 17 | In four weeks ' time the regiment moves from peacekeeping with the United Nations to peacekeeping by deterrent in West Germany . |
| 18 | In the afternoon there is an optional excursion along the shores of Lake Como returning by boat . |
| 19 | They suggested that by being out at night the young women had contributed in some way to their own rapes , even though they were merely returning by bus to their homes . |
| 20 | Glazing was done , in fact , to prevent cracking by frost and when the sky is blue the black tiles turn a deep aquamarine . |
| 21 | Softening by zeolite or resin processes leaves the water containing considerable amounts of sodium bicarbonate , with a pH near to 8 , whereas the lime-soda-softening process may give higher alkalinities , the water containing sodium carbonate and sometimes hydroxide , with a pH between 10 and 12 . |
| 22 | Sotheby 's had a couple of rare Currier and Ives lithographs : bidding by phone for the very rare ‘ The life of a hunter . |
| 23 | That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials . |
| 24 | Number crunching by day , he is also more than fully active after work and at weekends . |
| 25 | After a frantic day of arm twisting by Government whips it became clear that potential rebels were prepared to back away from a rebellion in the hope of wringing more concessions from the Government before the Finance Bill , which gives legislative authority to the Budget , comes back to the Commons toward the end of next month . |
| 26 | A left hemisphere advantage for matching by name ( Cohen , 1972 ) would be expected to lead to a RVF superiority on a memory search for letter names . |
| 27 | Recent asset stripping by government ( 'privatisation' ) has transferred nationally-owned firms to private shareholders . |
| 28 | The complete model must also take account of the voltages induced in the phase winding by rotor motion . |
| 29 | It 's taken gravity-defying tightrope walking by boxing authorities to keep the title unified , even if it is once again threatening to be shattered into pieces by Bowe 's refusal to honour a deal to immediately defend against Lewis . |
| 30 | BEST FOOT FORWARD WALKING BY COACH HOLIDAYS |