Example sentences of "by [verb] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | An inquest found that Captain Edwin Nleya , who died in 1989 after collecting evidence of an army poaching ring , was murdered ; an earlier army inquiry attributed his death by hanging to suicide . |
| 2 | Despite heavy attacks on Iraqi airfields , many of the country 's 700 planes were successful in avoiding destruction by relocating to bases in the north of the country and by taking refuge in reinforced underground shelters . |
| 3 | Indeed the party insults the English , the only ethnic group in which it holds a majority , by hinting to the Scots that the party might be compelled to consider giving the English their democratic entitlement of seats if the Scots have devolution . |
| 4 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 5 | Divorce , prostitution and women 's emancipation were designated as outside the parameters of political discourse , and MPs customarily prefaced speeches on these topics by apologizing to the house for intruding on parliamentary time . |
| 6 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 7 | For the same reasons one can not properly express one 's willingness to share the fortunes of a group by submitting to an authority which grossly betrays the trust it owes to the group . |
| 8 | The ethics of the universal religions take a different course in pursuit of objectivity , seeking to break out from the limitations of local custom by submitting to standards acceptable from the viewpoints of all mankind . |
| 9 | One escapes the old analogy only by submitting to another ; the role of logic , even when it is suspected that there is something wrong at the foundations of the argument , is confined to applying and criticizing concepts thrown up by the spontaneous process of analogizing . |
| 10 | By submitting to the cabinet the so-called Mosley Memorandum of 1930 , he brought matters to a head . |
| 11 | If by submitting to the one guilt he could evade all suspicion upon the worse count … he is quite shrewd enough , I fancy , to make the choice and quite durable enough to abide it . |
| 12 | She had soiled herself to the point of revulsion by submitting to his pawing in the public street — as shameless as the casual coupling of two dogs . |
| 13 | That turkey has got one chance of avoiding jail , just one , and that chance is by proving to the judge that he 's cleaned up his act . |
| 14 | Mr Dinkins has stayed in the headlines by pandering to Jewish sensibilities , and by removing from his campaign a volunteer who once read an antisemitic poem on the radio and praised it . |
| 15 | At first , he suspected her of trying to curry favour by pandering to his lust , but later came to the conclusion that it was genuine parental pride . |
| 16 | ‘ This cheapens the value of human life by pandering to the gruesome , ’ says Californian sociology professor Tod Griffin . |
| 17 | For one thing , they feel the functionalist approach does not only neglect change and conflict but tends to ‘ reify ’ society — to treat it as a thing — by attributing to social structures capacities for thought and purposive action which only humans can possess . |
| 18 | A ‘ radical change ’ within that total system and in the name of industrial democracy , to the advantage of the trade unions , could only be secured by attributing to them rights inhering in ownership . |
| 19 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 20 | She achieves this by attributing to Freud a relatively low level of transhistorical applicability . |
| 21 | Canes can be made more secure by fastening to a horizontal wire . |
| 22 | The right to sublet part of their home ( as long as they do not change the use e.g. by subletting to a business concern ) . |
| 23 | Sir Ron Brierley , who had a tilt at Britain 's Ocean Transport & Trading has survived and prospered by sticking to investments with the safe and reassuring backing of secure assets . |
| 24 | Britain says the EC could comfortably levy enough for a reasonable increase in EC spending by sticking to its present formula of 1.2 per cent of European Gross Domestic Product . |
| 25 | When these droplets grow large enough , by colliding together or by sticking to ice crystals , they fall as rain . |
| 26 | Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts . |
| 27 | The whiteflies then damage cotton ; they downgrade the cotton lint by sticking to it . |
| 28 | By sticking to the rules of keeping rhythm , balance and impulsions and allowing the fences to come to you , the horse is given the chance to jump athletically and can alter his stride if necessary . |
| 29 | By making simple changes such as swapping ordinary margarine for low-fat spread , the cheese for reduced-fat cheddar and by sticking to just one biscuit instead of four Nicky could cut the total calories down to 1,850 . |
| 30 | By sticking to a glass of juice a day , removing skin from the chicken , and having three pieces of fruit in the evening instead of all the snacks would bring the calories down to 2,300 . |