Example sentences of "by [v-ing] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ordinary kitchens are ‘ customised ’ by hanging a choice of door styles onto a standard frame , a practice known as ‘ front-framing ’ . |
| 9 | Feed them by hanging a piece of raw meat ( or chopped worm ) on a length of thread . |
| 10 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The " culture " offered by a liberal education could thus control nature by generating a higher form of " life " — by teaching " the art to live " . |
| 13 | Both , however , suggest that the ‘ set ’ towards the message leads to a renewed perception of reality , by generating a renewed awareness of the forms of signification in which reality is articulated . |
| 14 | There several ways of generating electron beams under vacuum : by stripping electrons from a hot filament ; utilizing field effect or corona discharge from metal points ; or by generating a plasma across a low pressure gas using a cold metal cathode disc . |
| 15 | If a module is offline , you may request it to be brought back online by generating a request to read it from LIFESPAN using one of the options in index 1.3.0 — Read or Enter Modules . |
| 16 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 17 | Just make sure you balance it the next day by enjoying a bigger portion of vegetables and fruit . |
| 18 | One of the line 's original steam locomotives Countess joined in the fun by nudging a specially produced banner at Raven Square before leaving on its journey . |
| 19 | Limit to what you can get by gobblin' a guy 's raw brain . |
| 20 | It can help the softer sort by encouraging a variant of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe . |
| 21 | By encouraging a shared and coherent approach to planning and decision-making , LMS could be a means of enabling schools to concentrate more collaboratively on the quality of learning . |
| 22 | In keeping with the emerging philosophy of the NHS , there was a concern to obtain better value for money by encouraging a ‘ market ’ amongst management development suppliers . |
| 23 | The ideologically bankrupt leadership in Beijing now seeks to take advantage of this mood , hoping to dissipate the effect of outside criticism by encouraging a chauvinist rejection of foreign interference . |
| 24 | Liberals generally sought to defend the family by promoting education and temperance and by opposing the Contagious Diseases Acts ; Conservatives pursued similar aims by encouraging a host of voluntary and philanthropic organisations , which worked to instil habits of sobriety and respectability in the working class . |
| 25 | Indeed , we were most disappointed he squandered an opportunity to improve local government services by encouraging a superficial debate over boundaries . |
| 26 | Option II presented on page 20 of the Policy Issues Paper , on which draft MPG6 is based , seeks to reduce the proportion of aggregates required from land won supplies in Wales and England by encouraging a dramatic growth in new supplies from coastal super quarries . |
| 27 | Option II presented on page 20 of the Policy Issues Paper , on which draft MPG6 is based , seeks to reduce the proportion of aggregates required from land won supplies in Wales and England by encouraging a dramatic growth in new supplies from coastal super quarries . |
| 28 | Pollution levels in the city centre have been shown to be dangerously high , and these can only be reduced by encouraging a switch to more environment-friendly modes of transport . |
| 29 | The creation of a currency union by encouraging a shift of resources back to the manufacturing sectors is likely to result in an increase of the average productivity growth rate of member countries and , again , in a decline of their respective natural rates of unemployment . |
| 30 | Similarly , banks could encourage the general public to withdraw less cash : for example , by making time deposits more attractive than sight deposits or by encouraging a greater use of credit cards . |