Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [v-ing] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pioneered by National Children 's Home and co-funded in partnership with Cambridgeshire council , the scheme homes to deter children as young as five from crime by alerting them to the long-term consequences to their victims and the effect of crime on their own future . |
| 2 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 3 | The big boys tried to make me feel at home by taking me to the greasy spoon for a pie but what did I care for food as the table rang with drug quips and acerbic one-liners about Danielle Dax from Gavin Martin , James Brown and Danny Kelly . |
| 4 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |
| 5 | After a while we decided to round off the day by taking ourselves to the cinema , and ended up by catching the 11pm liberty wagon back to camp . |
| 6 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 7 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 8 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 9 | But , as to clinching things , Stavrogin is not Tikhon , which evokes another of my dicta : Dostoevsky could only satisfy his urge towards crisis and clarity by surrendering it to the enemy . |
| 10 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |
| 11 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 12 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 13 | If he remained at liberty , he could authorise the calling in of outside help — hence , as insurance , the coup leader 's attempt to destroy the President s reputation by connecting him to the cocaine trade . |
| 14 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 15 | Hence , the Listening Test can be said to measure students ' communicative ability by exposing them to the kind of authentic misunderstandings which have occurred in real situations . |
| 16 | The man showed his gratitude by recommending him to the Bishop for ordination . |
| 17 | He cemented this election by committing himself to the Israelite nation with the words , " I will take you for my people , and I will be your God " ( Exodus 6:7 ) . |
| 18 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |
| 19 | She caught worldwide attention last year when she claimed in a defence of prostitution charges that she could only satisfy a sex addiction by selling herself to the long line of men . |