Example sentences of "by [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for reappraisal in the 1950s was underlined by accumulating evidence that rising standards of material prosperity , education and social welfare had not been matched by any corresponding decline in offending . |
| 2 | A woman who wishes to achieve an enjoyable life by accumulating wealth is likewise deceived . |
| 3 | In these and other models , households save for future consumption ( by accumulating money balances ) and in some cases firms can accumulate inventories for future sales . |
| 4 | Memory was tested by cued recall , using slides in which both the woman and the peripheral car were missing and subjects had to describe the missing details , and by recognition , four-alternative forced-choice ( 4AFC ) tested using an additional three slides with the colours of the peripheral and central information changed . |
| 5 | But if Mayor Schönlein hoped that by ostracising Fohrbeck he would force her resignation before her term of office ends in April 1996 , it looks as though he was very much mistaken . |
| 6 | The imputation system in the limit corresponds to integrationist views and offsets the double taxation effect by imputing corporation tax paid to dividend recipients as an offset to their personal liability to tax from that source . |
| 7 | And you think that by waging war against them you will resolve this present situation . ’ |
| 8 | Take wonderful advantage of a double affinity by cooking cabbage in very little water with masses of black pepper , draining , adding more black pepper and finely-chopped pineapple , with or without butter . |
| 9 | Make caramel sauce by cooking butter and sugar in a pan until it turns a rich brown colour . |
| 10 | Finally I passed rows of sombre-looking huts , blackened by cooking smoke and infested by scores of small children and large dogs . |
| 11 | A man who 'd been scalded in the kitchens by cooking oil . |
| 12 | By enjoying learning , she said , pupils understood and remembered things much better . |
| 13 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 14 | It argues that it is impractical for countries to protect their interests by patenting plant species . |
| 15 | Reformers continually blurred the occupational role of wage-earning youth by fusing economics with ‘ character ’ , and in presenting youth as ‘ raw material ’ for the future . |
| 16 | One example of this has been the production of specific antibodies ( monoclonals ) made by fusing tumour cells and lymphocytes . |
| 17 | Just as Public Enemy , Ice-T , the Beastie Boys and the Chili Peppers have all found wider audiences by fusing rap with rock , these acts also cast their nets wide , attracting people who are n't into the aggressive , in-yer-face style of hardcore rap . |
| 18 | By fusing news broadcasts with traditional novelistic tropes , she foregrounds the conventionality of both discursive genres and points to the fact that they both rely on an assumption of verisimilitude which her flagrant transgressions of narrative ontology undermine . |
| 19 | By channelling water away from the structure to drainage channels the board renders any granular fill layer unnecessary . |
| 20 | Through its power and internal efficiency the City distorted the application of resources by channelling capital overseas at the expense of the domestic economy . |
| 21 | These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries . |
| 22 | The journalists had argued that Mr Hurd , by breaching article 10 of the convention guaranteeing freedom of expression , had acted beyond his powers . |
| 23 | For many years , successive governments have promoted the advantages of private home ownership , most conspicuously by subsidising mortgage interest payments by tax relief . |
| 24 | Biodiesel , made from rapeseed , has few advantages over conventional diesel , according to a report by Germany 's Federal Environment Office , which states that there are cheaper and more effective ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions than by subsidising biodiesel production . |
| 25 | The NEA selection process mitigates the vagaries of personal bias by submitting grant applications to representatives of the applicant 's peers , which in turn makes recommendations to a presidentially appointed twenty-six-member Council on the Arts . |
| 26 | But I had to get research students from somewhere , so I asked the research councils to fund them , in the usual way , by submitting research proposals . |
| 27 | The irony of the deplorable situation is that much of the suffering is caused by maleficent reproductive patterns and can be avoided by rectifying childbearing practices . |
| 28 | This expert pastoralist acquires all the food it needs from its herds of mealy bugs , which , like their relatives the aphids , make a living by sucking plant sap . |
| 29 | Besides causing direct damage by sucking blood through its piercing mouthparts , it leaves the site of the wound vulnerable to secondary bacterial and fungal infection : it can also transmit viral diseases . |
| 30 | McCowen 's middle class Brit worries about his mum and attempts to keep his stiff upper lip from trembling by reliving tennis star Virginia Wade 's Wimbledon triumph . |