Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 2 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 3 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
| 4 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 5 | Only by supplying something outside the poem — claims for intention , the ostensible participation of the language in recognisable ( and thus containable ) poetic conventions , the equation of Astrophil with Sidney and his love with Penelope Rich ( the sequence 's Stella ) and then a testing of the language 's claim against their history — could the referential quality of the poem 's language be critically maintained . |
| 6 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 7 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 8 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 9 | The children are not allowed to touch the fish with the paper and try to move it along by hitting it on the floor to create a draught . |
| 10 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
| 11 | Now that is a humiliating experience , so you get through by turning it into a joke . |
| 12 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 13 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 14 | At the same time , inspect and clean the gutters and rainwater gullies , emptying them of leaves and silt — finish off by flushing them with a bucket of warm water . |
| 15 | We 'd better start off by telling you about the two brothers who run the Minoa , Yanni and Nico who run the bar and enjoy a joke . |
| 16 | And he employs a zig-zag training sprint which involves a series of passes before the player finishes off by flinging himself at a rugby tackle bag ! |
| 17 | And of course you risk yourself still further by positioning yourself under an overhanging edge — you could finish up at least partially buried if there is a cave-in . |
| 18 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 19 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 20 | Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup . |
| 21 | So when he followed up by pointing us towards the touchline , I got the shock of my life . |
| 22 | In this way , the original small nucleus of people grows by adding people to it in stages , much as a snowball can be built up by rolling it along the snow on the ground ( e.g. Plant 1975 ; Mars 1982 ) . |
| 23 | He sounded depressed by the thought , but then cheered himself up by asking me for a beer . |
| 24 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 26 | It always was going to be a mad situation , though , as long as the Government carried on taking the coward 's way out by leaving it to the judges in Luxembourg or the Eurocrats in Brussels to sort things out for them . |
| 27 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 28 | The present value of those future flows should then be worked out by discounting them with an interest rate equivalent to the firm 's cost of capital , the weighted average of its cost of borrowing and of equity . |
| 29 | This was borne out by observing him in the classroom , where he was sitting quietly working , in contrast with the much less controlled behaviour of other children in this small group . |
| 30 | The microcomputer should have a form of security e.g. by bolting it to a desk if it is to remain in one place all the time , perhaps next to the library catalogue . |