Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 2 | Lieutenant-General Abdul Haq Ulomi , who heads the country 's most powerful military and political body , said in an interview the two countries were testing the new surface-to-surface rockets in Afghanistan by supplying them to the mujahedin to use on Kabul . |
| 3 | Pioneered by National Children 's Home and co-funded in partnership with Cambridgeshire council , the scheme homes to deter children as young as five from crime by alerting them to the long-term consequences to their victims and the effect of crime on their own future . |
| 4 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 5 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 6 | The plant can be anchored to the bottom by tying it to a piece of wood , roots or rock . |
| 7 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 8 | Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 . |
| 9 | He it was who first , among moderns at all events , conceived this method of organizing the infinite complexity of appearance by referring it to a geometrical scaffolding . |
| 10 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |
| 11 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |
| 12 | Let me now illustrate some of these things by introducing you to a twentieth-century saint who lived a life of love in a radical way . |
| 13 | To achieve more precise control over the response and quantify it , the researchers immobilized the slug by pinning it to a stage and standardizing the tactile stimulus by using a jet of water delivered with a water-pick . |
| 14 | In the past , freemasons have labelled and slandered the Christian God by reducing him to a miniature deity . |
| 15 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 16 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 17 | For all but the very ill or those admitted as an emergency the nurse can help the patient with his problem of being among unfamiliar people by introducing him to the other patients in his immediate vicinity . |
| 18 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 19 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 20 | Inspired by the show , she dreamed up a tale of a Christian boy who blackmailed Muslim girls by luring them to an apartment where hidden video cameras filmed them in indecent postures . |
| 21 | Within this context of greater freedom for all schools , we will end the two-tier system created by Grant Maintained Schools and City Technology Colleges by returning them to the strategic planning framework of the local elected education authority . |
| 22 | Moscow hoped to rally the opposition of the Non-Aligned against these developments by linking them to the Camp David Agreement and to Israeli policy . |
| 23 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |
| 24 | But , as to clinching things , Stavrogin is not Tikhon , which evokes another of my dicta : Dostoevsky could only satisfy his urge towards crisis and clarity by surrendering it to the enemy . |
| 25 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 26 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |
| 27 | For hundreds of years , the Caramoja tribe of Northern Uganda have attempted to elongate their penises by knotting them to the backs of watercarts which are then pulled around the village by mules . |
| 28 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 29 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |
| 30 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |