Example sentences of "by [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howards began by manufacturing fine chemicals , especially the antimalarial drug quinine and its derivatives , for the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 2 | By crystallising cheap carbon , fortunes would be made . |
| 3 | Animal sports were put down by crusading urban and evangelical pressure . |
| 4 | He dances about among the crowd , greeting people here and there by stamping yellow rice marks on their foreheads with the thumb of his other hand . |
| 5 | Essentially , formulating a theory of regulation involves imputing motives to the various bodies involved in regulation ; various theories are obtained by imputing various motives . |
| 6 | In its most overweaning forms , anthropism seems to be on the verge of substituting Man for God , by hinting that consciousness , unbound by time 's arrow , causes creation . |
| 7 | Trims by offsetting null point on artificial feel units for ailerons and rudder . |
| 8 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 9 | Ceauşescu could not wage war against foreign enemies — his neighbours after all were his fraternal allies — so he could only provide means for his ambitious plans by waging economic war against his own people . |
| 10 | Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue . |
| 11 | To make a contribution to educational policy and practice by generating practical suggestions for how computers may be used effectively to stimulate exploratory and reasoned argument in the classroom , with particular reference to the curriculum goals of English and spoken language development across a range of curriculum areas . |
| 12 | The power of the tests was increased by generating 7 subgroups ( containing 5,10,15,20,25,30,35 securities ) from each master group . |
| 13 | The site of the neutrophil chemoattractant(s) , whether luminal or mucosal , may be important since , on contact with a chemoattractant , neutrophils cause indiscriminate damage to their immediate surroundings by generating reactive oxygen species and by lysosomal enzyme release . |
| 14 | we are helping the Amazonian Indians and tribal people in Malaysia in their fight for survival by generating worldwide publicity for their cause , and campaigning to protect their rainforest lands ; |
| 15 | Inositol trisphosphate is a second messenger that controls many cellular processes by generating internal calcium signals . |
| 16 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 17 | They will also seek to influence public and corporate opinion by generating other publicly available information via : |
| 18 | The source coordinates of the stream are found by generating two random whole numbers in the range 1–30 and the direction of movement from one cell to the next is found by generating another random number which can take on one of the values 1 , 2 , 3 or 4 . |
| 19 | Distension of the rectum facilitates defecation in patients with complete supraconal lesions by generating rectal contractions and anal relaxations in much the same way as in normal subjects . |
| 20 | Soon , people in the divisions learn to live with their binds by generating further explanations . |
| 21 | Any organisation which has a large capital base and a relatively secure home market , whether it be in the industrial , service or utility sector , can make a positive contribution by generating overseas earnings . |
| 22 | The source coordinates of the stream are found by generating two random whole numbers in the range 1–30 and the direction of movement from one cell to the next is found by generating another random number which can take on one of the values 1 , 2 , 3 or 4 . |
| 23 | A spatial data program called from the tablet allows these angular changes to be identified for each frame by generating three digitized points which give the origin and the existing link point and its desired new position . |
| 24 | The planner can then show how to meet those needs , either by generating more power , or by using existing supplies more efficiently , for the least cost . |
| 25 | Despite this , many dealers earned staggering incomes by generating incredible turnovers . |
| 26 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 27 | Transatlantic tourists and suburban groupies may be willing to fork out the £1 cover charge for sporadic glimpses of Michael Caine and Jason Donovan , but grown-ups are kept loyal by cooking that is honest and robust and hardly ever hiccups in spite of turning over almost as many portions as Ramsden 's . |
| 28 | Originally from Punjab , Channi began his music career in England by singing religious songs in Sikh temples . |
| 29 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 30 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |