Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 2 | It is not unknown for so-called ‘ unspinnable ’ aircraft to come to grief by getting into a stable spin . |
| 3 | Latter-day Cobdenites faced the future by returning to the subversive roots of their creed . |
| 4 | Improve his blood by marrying into the old line ! ’ |
| 5 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |
| 6 | Aerospace officials , however , are hoping to change the government 's mind by pointing to the new activist policies of and by citing evidence that the US government is spending considerably more than the three per cent of turnover accepted as a limit under a trade agreement signed with the European Commission last July . |
| 7 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 8 | Mr Heseltine , Secretary of State for the Environment 1979–83 , made great efforts trying to streamline the operations of his department by insisting on a continuous review of its objectives and priorities . |
| 9 | Rhetorically its strategy of reiteration attempts to unify different groups into one political bloc by appealing to a single source of oppression which they all share . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't see fit to compound this tragedy by adding to the deep distress that the incident must already have caused to you , the deceased 's relatives and others , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Ursus differentiated his scheme from that of Tycho by insisting on the daily rotation of the earth . |
| 12 | While performing in Nottingham , Crawford paid minimal rent by living on the top floor of a brothel . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's bad for the sport because I wanted to win the crown in the ring by fighting for the undisputed title , ’ said Lewis . |
| 14 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 15 | Alternatively , neuropeptide Y may have produced its choleretic effect by binding at a hypothelamic level , where neuropeptide Y receptors are also plentiful . |
| 16 | By reducing the net cost to the public purse by charging on a means-tested basis , it might prove possible to persuade the Treasury to expand provision . |
| 17 | The introduction of the steam press after 1810 reduced the price of books , allowing experts to earn a living by writing for the ever-expanding market . |
| 18 | One artist concluded his deal by standing on a cardboard box full of notes while Berry taped it up . |
| 19 | While the process of constructing abstractions in consciousness is doomed to fail as a representation of reality there is the possibility of testing the contents of consciousness by referring to an empirical reality . |
| 20 | Let's continue this look at the marine aquarium scene by looking at the latest thinking regarding the nutritional requirements of marine fish . |
| 21 | After several pints he suddenly startled the whole pub by saying in a loud , benevolent voice , ‘ And a Little Child shall lead Them . ’ |
| 22 | She is impatient with the status quo and the traditional style of decision-making by compromising with the major interests . |
| 23 | Although Arminius , who had taught theology at the University of Leyden , was in most respects an orthodox Protestant , on the question of salvation he had turned his back on a century of Reformed theology by arguing against the extreme predestinarian theology of Calvin 's successor at Geneva , Theodore Beza . |
| 24 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
| 26 | By the time he was conscripted into the Red Army of Workers and Peasants ( Rabochiy Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya , RKKA ) in 1919 he had already shown his intelligence by graduating from a theological seminary . |
| 27 | Tory rebels believe they have found a legal way of spoking the wheels of the bill 's passage by calling for a judicial review of the constitutional implications of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , which today enters its 18th day in the Commons . |
| 28 | The Annales school attempts to deal with this issue by appealing to the third category identified by Braudel — that of événements ; but to say quite what événements are is no easy task . |
| 29 | It addresses this issue by looking at a large body of empirical evidence , specifically at examples of the relations between adjectives and other words in their phrases or sentences ( these other words by no means always being nouns or noun phrases ) . |
| 30 | Bradman says it was Fingleton , Fingleton said it was Bradman , and Leo O'Brien ( the 12th man ) further confused the issue by revealing in a recent interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly that neither Bradman nor Fingleton was in the room at the time of the exchange , but ( former Australian Test players ) Ryder and Kippax , who were both reporting the matches in one way or another , were . ’ |