Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victoria continued to wear handed-down Liberty dresses from Aunt Rose 's daughters , and wasting money by the excessive use of electric light , hot water or heating appliances was a vice which Pamela rigorously discouraged in children and servants . |
| 2 | This involves brokers generating income by constantly and needlessly buying and selling investments for their clients in order to collect the heavy commissions which accrue . |
| 3 | Accepting payment by credit card |
| 4 | Such a climatic change would severely limit pine growth by causing waterlogging , encouraging bog expansion , and inhibiting regeneration by reducing the number of good seed-years . |
| 5 | Again , this is a rule that can be broken , but I 've never yet seen a design with more than two needles tucking side by side . |
| 6 | More recently , the Court of Appeal set aside an order prohibiting reporting by radio or television of a trial of fraud and corruption charges which was nearing its end at Stafford Crown Court . |
| 7 | A pair of Jacobean Dersinghams , husband and wife in about half life-size , kneeling side by side on a plinth , looked stolidly into eternity . |
| 8 | It is true that the very process of mobilising labour by elites for their own support has brought workers together for political action and this could form the basis for the development of an independent labour movement , but this has , so far , been prevented by the mechanisms of control ( Spalding 1977 ) . |
| 9 | In a bid to boost foreign trade and modernize the economy the government in November 1990 passed legislation allowing investment by foreign companies and joint ventures [ see p. 37864 ] . |
| 10 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 11 | Diagnosing malignancy by percutaneous sampling |
| 12 | The Never Ending Story by Michael Ende |
| 13 | In the reigns of Edward I and Edward II the crown had used the indebtedness of great subjects as a means of political discipline , gaining support by respiting debts and applying pressure by distraining debtors . |
| 14 | As a composer and conductor he was entirely self-taught , gaining experience by singing in and directing church choirs . |
| 15 | The next fifteen or so miles were easier , not so much because it was daylight but because , once past that towering headland , they were rowing west by north and the wind and tide were now behind them . |
| 16 | In Blackbird Leys , local politicians are tackling crime by introducing speed bumps to discourage the ’ hotters , ’ putting security phones on entrances to flats . |
| 17 | When I mentioned this profligacy to her one day as we were painting side by side , she dismissed me , saying , ‘ When we run out of money I 'll get us some more . ’ |
| 18 | When they were once more walking side by side in the dusk , Julia said gently : |
| 19 | Instead of gaining entry by qualification to a professional body , teachers , on becoming qualified , may join ( if they so wish ) one of six unions . |
| 20 | The Classic Wallpaper Trimming Wheel by Harris is a nifty little gadget , specially designed to trim positioned wallpaper neatly and efficiently . |
| 21 | Gould 's nominations were more broadly based and he is gaining momentum by contesting the two posts at once . |
| 22 | However , Matza is anxious to avoid romanticising deviance ; he sees this as having an equally distorting effect by obscuring ‘ the seamier and more mundane aspects of the world ’ . |
| 23 | As Locke put it , in justifying rule by the majority , a community " being one body must move one way " . |
| 24 | ( First Edition ) HAWTHORN won their second consecutive Victorian Football League premiership on Saturday , defeating Geelong by six points before more than 100,000 spectators in Melbourne . |
| 25 | Optical methods of checking thickness by examining the interference colours will not work for these very thin slices , which produce very bright , high order colours . |
| 26 | Lurgan also went to Dublin and won , eliminating CYM by a five wicket margin helped by a superb all round performance from Craig Irwin who took two wickets for 24 and then hit a not out 60 . |
| 27 | My pleasure at seeing my name appear in the November journal as a new member by examination was tempered by the long list of those gaining membership by direct entry — indeed , a list of comparable length with those graduate members . |
| 28 | Several of these points were taken up in the Takeover Panel case in which Lord Donaldson said that the court should be wary of allowing judicial review to be used as a tactical or delaying device by a company which is the target of a takeover bid or by one of several rival bidders . |
| 29 | I was gaining confidence by the moment . |
| 30 | Braverman 's view is that work-study engineers are not contributing knowledge by their analysis of others ' work : they are acting as eyes and ears of management to find out on their behalf how quickly a job can be done . |