Example sentences of "[adj] by [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in September 1988 , Donleavy seemed to confirm this by placing him on the ‘ inactive ’ list and arranging for him to rejoin the Boy Scouts of America as Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the Chicago Area Council . |
| 2 | But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils . |
| 3 | It does this by disguising itself as an aphid , in order to avoid being detected by the ants . |
| 4 | When you show disapproval to a dog , reinforce this by ignoring him for a time . |
| 5 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 6 | You do this by assessing which of the ‘ stars ’ and their characteristics dominate his house at birth . |
| 7 | I did get around this by approaching it from the other side : I added gain to the clean modes and it all came together well . |
| 8 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |
| 9 | Many fish , squid , octopuses , comb-jellies and jellyfish ensure that the abyssal depths are never completely dark by filling them with the sparkle and shimmer of animal light . |
| 10 | Or , if you have room , you could make the bathroom much larger by extending it into the landing or a bedroom , and building a new partition wall . |
| 11 | Numeric quantities can be printed left justified by preceding them with a semi-colon . |
| 12 | The author undermines ‘ adult ’ notions of what is normal and natural and obvious by showing them through the eyes of a young boy who is trying to puzzle it all out . |
| 13 | When the hole is fully stocked , the Ammophila seals it with a plug of sand made firm and smooth by hammering it with a grain of gravel held in her jaws . |
| 14 | We want to lay emphasis on the concept of community education : it represents a whole attitude to education which makes science , maths and all the other subjects students learn , meaningful by relating them to the real experiences of life outside school . |
| 15 | " I tell you what — I do n't think I can do any more by seeing him at the moment , but I think you should cut out his meat completely for a week or two . |
| 16 | From the initial idea Watt developed an engine with a cylinder kept hot by surrounding it with a jacket of steam and a condenser kept cool by immersing it in a water bath . |
| 17 | From the initial idea Watt developed an engine with a cylinder kept hot by surrounding it with a jacket of steam and a condenser kept cool by immersing it in a water bath . |
| 18 | He preferred the sort of woman who put her foot in it with grammar and things ; that way he could feel superior by correcting her at the time and having a laugh at her expense later with his male colleagues . |
| 19 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 20 | Firstly , the weight transmitted through the sailor 's feet can be used to counter the capsize by placing them on the rail ( W2 ) . |
| 21 | And you ca n't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd , didactic behaviour . |
| 22 | That by putting it in the middle of the other side , he clipped the pallet again the opposite side and that also went down in between the racks and dropped on the pallet below it . |
| 23 | Remove as much as possible by scraping it off the glass and syphoning it out . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've found , for instance , that we can keep the confidentiality of our client 's affairs intact by providing them with a complete in-house service , ’ Mr Cunningham said . |
| 25 | Tony Meek says it means the world to be in the race and its a dream come true … he gets his dogs ready by walking them in the forest every morning … they have good food … weetabix … honey and milk for breakfast … cooked meat … raw meat and vegatables for tea … he says his dogs have a good chance of winning they 're second and third favourites and he 's not bothered which one does it … |
| 26 | Small babies always look lovely in photographs , regardless of the surround , but you could make the picture of a new baby even more special by decorating it with a pretty mount . |
| 27 | The desired behaviour is obviously recordable by using something like a diary . |