Example sentences of "[verb] by [v-ing] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 2 | The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory . |
| 3 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 4 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 5 | The seam allowances of the following seams are self-neatened by enclosing them in the seam itself , and are therefore useful when making unlined curtains . |
| 6 | For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation . |