Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 2 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 3 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 4 | It is not unknown for so-called ‘ unspinnable ’ aircraft to come to grief by getting into a stable spin . |
| 5 | Latter-day Cobdenites faced the future by returning to the subversive roots of their creed . |
| 6 | The 800 species of hermit crab that occur in the world 's oceans are distinguished from all other crabs by living inside the unoccupied shells of marine snails . |
| 7 | As the anxiety for each target is overcome so the client is only ever raising their anxiety by ten units by going onto the next target . |
| 8 | Improve his blood by marrying into the old line ! ’ |
| 9 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |
| 10 | Aerospace officials , however , are hoping to change the government 's mind by pointing to the new activist policies of and by citing evidence that the US government is spending considerably more than the three per cent of turnover accepted as a limit under a trade agreement signed with the European Commission last July . |
| 11 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment 1979–83 , made great efforts trying to streamline the operations of his department by insisting on a continuous review of its objectives and priorities . |
| 13 | Rhetorically its strategy of reiteration attempts to unify different groups into one political bloc by appealing to a single source of oppression which they all share . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't see fit to compound this tragedy by adding to the deep distress that the incident must already have caused to you , the deceased 's relatives and others , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Ursus differentiated his scheme from that of Tycho by insisting on the daily rotation of the earth . |
| 16 | While performing in Nottingham , Crawford paid minimal rent by living on the top floor of a brothel . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's bad for the sport because I wanted to win the crown in the ring by fighting for the undisputed title , ’ said Lewis . |
| 18 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |
| 19 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 20 | Alternatively , neuropeptide Y may have produced its choleretic effect by binding at a hypothelamic level , where neuropeptide Y receptors are also plentiful . |
| 21 | By reducing the net cost to the public purse by charging on a means-tested basis , it might prove possible to persuade the Treasury to expand provision . |
| 22 | The introduction of the steam press after 1810 reduced the price of books , allowing experts to earn a living by writing for the ever-expanding market . |
| 23 | One artist concluded his deal by standing on a cardboard box full of notes while Berry taped it up . |
| 24 | While the process of constructing abstractions in consciousness is doomed to fail as a representation of reality there is the possibility of testing the contents of consciousness by referring to an empirical reality . |
| 25 | Lump sum investments can take advantage of the charitable status of public schools by paying into an educational trust run by the schools themselves or the life offices . |
| 26 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 27 | Let's continue this look at the marine aquarium scene by looking at the latest thinking regarding the nutritional requirements of marine fish . |
| 28 | Knuller Ltd , the publishers of the magazine , had offended sensibilities by printing on an inside page , under a column headed ‘ Males ’ , a series of ‘ gay contact ’ advertisements . |
| 29 | The King himself , sensing the popular mood and indeed sharing it , marked the victory of the Red Army at Stalingrad by presenting to the Soviet government the ‘ Sword of Stalingrad ’ as a symbol of British respect . |
| 30 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |