Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] by [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 She retaliates by going over the top of her partner 's defence . |
| 2 | He starts by sitting on the side of the plinth , and the physiotherapist may use mobilizing techniques to reduce any spasticity in the patient 's trunk or arm . |
| 3 | For the speaker can not settle what he means by settling on the effects it will produce as he can settle what he is setting out to mean in saying it . |
| 4 | It begins by looking at the Reagan record in such areas as pollution control , natural resource management and energy , at the administration 's attitudes to the international environment ( it wants to cut its contribution to the UN Environment Programme by 70 per cent ) and at the massacre of the Council on Environmental Quality ( two thirds of its budget and four fifths of its staff chopped ) . |
| 5 | It begins by looking at the ideas of lecturers , but is primarily concerned with the meanings that ‘ physics ’ or ‘ physical science ’ have for students , and the ways in which those meanings are sometimes at odds with the experience of studying those subjects . |