Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A graduate student in mechanical engineering is president of a company which last year made $1 million by manufacturing a machine that cleans and decontaminates microprocessor chips for Silicon Valley 's semiconductor firms . |
| 2 | When essential papers had failed to come through to Prague , Chadwick had decided to cut corners by manufacturing a few of his own . |
| 3 | He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies . |
| 4 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |
| 5 | Students therefore learn by accumulating a bank of correct patterns of language and gain confidence to use their knowledge in a range of situations . |
| 6 | By accumulating the expected numbers of cases of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma below age 15 we then created three categories with ( as far as possible ) similar expected numbers . |
| 7 | He called Isherwood Parsnip in that novel because of his face , presumably , and Auden was Pimpernel because he had saved Thomas Mann 's daughter from the Gestapo by contracting a Platonic marriage . |
| 8 | Eventually when one has had enough , he signals submission by contracting the pigment in one set of cells and expanding that in another so that his flank patterns change and he hoists the flag of surrender . |
| 9 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 10 | By pitching the ball up and bowling in the channel he makes his opponent hit back along the line of the approaching delivery and play the ball into the ‘ V ’ — the arc of the field which lies between extra cover on the off side and a straightish mid-wicket on the leg side . |
| 11 | Wild angelica 's close relative angelica archangelica is made into candy by crystallising the stalks . |
| 12 | Second , flows would be changed by downgrading the western section of the ring road , with through traffic passing through the area via the eastern leg only . |
| 13 | By articulating the fictional through the ‘ scientific ’ , the novels question the authority of the latter and reassert the specificity of the former as a discourse which has as its function to mimic and to question . |
| 14 | Grey and brown are obtained either by using undyed wool or by dyeing the yarns with extracts from nutshells and oak bark . |
| 15 | Quite simply , the peaks and troughs can be evened out by forecasting the number that can be permitted to be away in each grade at any given week which is a simple mathematical exercise . |
| 16 | This principal character is a " " poure scoler " " ( 3190 ) , a " " clerk " " ( 3199 ) , liable , therefore , to be living by his wits , including , it is hinted ( 3191 – 6 ) , by forecasting the weather on the strength of his astrology . |
| 17 | The church floor was swept and washed clean , thanks to Cecily the courtesan who had earned her pennies honestly by scrubbing every inch . |
| 18 | You can do it by scrubbing the Navy . |
| 19 | You cook the moules as for marinière : moules marinières is prepared by scrubbing the mussels , rejecting any that do not close when knocked against the sink , whilst allowing the finely chopped onion and garlic to thoroughly soften in the wine in a large pan for which you have a close-fitting lid . |
| 20 | During the heyday of the fair it was the right of every villager to brew and sell his own beer , and he advertised the fact by hanging a branch or piece of greenery over his door . |
| 21 | Ordinary kitchens are ‘ customised ’ by hanging a choice of door styles onto a standard frame , a practice known as ‘ front-framing ’ . |
| 22 | Feed them by hanging a piece of raw meat ( or chopped worm ) on a length of thread . |
| 23 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 24 | Working out the length of guttering can be done at ground level ; calculate the length of downpipe by hanging a string from the existing gutters or downpipe . |
| 25 | A central part of my argument , then , is that a major step can be made simply by relocating the issue of child abuse into the mainstream of child care research , policy and practice . |
| 26 | Now the Americans have fired a warning shot over Europe by tripling the duty on some EC imports . |
| 27 | But in his first public comments after the March 18th triumph the chancellor carefully began by praising the western allies , especially America , for making a united , democratic Germany possible . |
| 28 | Many skippers over-simplify the role of a captain by praising the role of their team-mates and coaching staff . |
| 29 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 30 | Some grasshoppers produce their whirring trills by sawing the notched edge of their hind legs against a prominent strengthened vein of the wing . |