Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from their ‘ vertical ’ obligations individuals were tied together by belonging to the same group . |
| 2 | The family kept together by focusing on the daily difficulties of life with the grandmother . |
| 3 | Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law . |
| 4 | As with classroom practice , it can learn much by attending to the best of what is taking place in its schools . |
| 5 | ‘ Let us all down by looking like the poor relation ? ’ |
| 6 | This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) . |
| 7 | Perhaps by joining in the public disapproval of surrogacy , and seemingly sharing the moral universe of ‘ Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ’ , the Committee may have increased their sphere of influence . |
| 8 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 9 | Broad political support will not , of course , be won merely by appealing to the inherent rationality of planning as opposed to the profit-oriented allocation of resources . |
| 10 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 11 | He did so by insisting on a crucial distinction between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith . |
| 12 | Pensioner members who wish to take up this suggestion may do so by writing to the Honorary finance Officer stating when they retired/resigned from the Bank and quote their membership/staff number and , in their letter , incorporate a clear request that all or part of the sum be donated to the Frank Holden Defence Fund . . . |
| 13 | Is it not then possible that Satan , in his opposition to Christ and man , and wishing to destroy all that God has given , could do so by appearing in a godly angelic light ? |
| 14 | Having bought my car , if I want to travel from A to B in Britain I have to do so by travelling on the left-hand side of the road . |
| 15 | And even those modern fictional texts , such as the novels of Samuel Beckett , that seem dedicated to demonstrating the impossibility of communicating anything to anybody about anything , do so by alluding to a paradigmatic act of storytelling , a paradise lost of communication : |
| 16 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 17 | When John Major is invited to sign the treaty devised by Jacques Delors , he should not only by thinking about the likely effects on the British economy , but also about Eastern Europe 's moral claims on the existing members of the EC . |
| 18 | How oppressive the satraps were in reality is a question which can be answered only by looking at the second area in which Persia impinged , tribute and military service . |
| 19 | The educational aspects of social change can be assessed only by looking at the local education authorities . |
| 20 | It is only by concentrating on the differential element that literary studies can maintain its specific object of study . |
| 21 | The river was in flood and tradition maintains that Coilus was able to cross only by leaping onto a large rock in mid-stream and from it to the farther bank . |
| 22 | Fig 94 Sailing backwards by pushing on the wrong side of the sail — a valuable skill |
| 23 | Just by glancing at the first chapter of the book you feel a sort of ‘ zing ’ that brings them together , so much so that one could never rate one higher than the other . |
| 24 | Yet Joseph knew that he was right to have his armaments in place : you could never trust the gypsies or the tinkers — against each other , let alone anyone else : quacks , drunks and ranters would drift from their positions in the line and cause trouble just by bumping into the orderly armada of hill folk who knew how to hold steady but had never been fond of strangers . |
| 25 | When I first realised that most of the bites were not simply ‘ line ’ bites ( and you can test this easily by casting in a baitless hook ) I tried every conventional trick in the book to hit them . |
| 26 | These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map . |
| 27 | This procedure can be understood most easily by referring to the static torque/position characteristics , even though at the speeds in question these characteristics are not strictly applicable . |
| 28 | They think that all knowledge is to be found by perusing him , and not by looking at the real world . |
| 29 | the relative informality and openness of literature teaching , its disinclination to impose judgements or dictate pre-given conclusions , itself constitutes a determinate discursive regime , constrained by its own rules , limits and positionalities : a regime that can be characterised as " liberal " in so far as it imposes itself not by insisting on the positional authority of the teacher , nor by compelling assent to a given and explicit curriculum of knowledge , but by inviting a voluntary recognition of the existence , purpose and value of a " subject " : Literature itself . |
| 30 | Other experimenters have varied the procedure , following Lawrence in training subjects on two discrimination tasks involving the same stimuli but changing the response requirement not by changing from the simultaneous to the successive arrangement but in some other way . |