Example sentences of "[verb] by [v-ing] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 2 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 3 | The principles can be demonstrated by applying them to the design of a stepped shaft where a maximum stress concentration factor has been specified . |
| 4 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 5 | Incoming values are stored by adding them to the appropriate linked list . |
| 6 | Because producers are valuing the resources in terms of the price producers could get by transferring them to the meals industry . |
| 7 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 8 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 9 | While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen . |
| 10 | Where identification is a morally valuable attitude which can be expressed by binding oneself to the authority , one has a reason to do so which is served by consent to the authority . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the view has prevailed within the Government , and also within the ranks and higher commands of all the Opposition parties , that Britain 's future would be assured by linking herself to the fortunes of another country . |