Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone remarks on how aggressive it now is , and it seems Down Under , Hewlett-Packard Co made its point about its new mainframe-killing Emerald servers by launching them in the Fossil Gallery of the Australian Museum , carefully labelling the dinosaur skeletons with jibes at IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Fujitsu Ltd , Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp : legends such as ‘ ES/9000 — a large body and a small brain led this animal to become extinct ’ . |
| 2 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 3 | The Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) aims to stabilise currencies by keeping them within an agreed band . |
| 4 | A further consequence of commercialism is the pressure for management to legitimate politically determined goals by clothing them in the language of managerial decision-making . |
| 5 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 6 | Either they win the faint gratitude of listeners by reminding them of the original with a faithful remake , or they rip the original to shreds and reassemble it in a manner pleasing to themselves . |
| 7 | When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859 , Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission 's views which went far beyond what they had in mind . |
| 8 | We have compared the expression levels of VP6 and NS1 proteins in alternative sites by cloning one into the Bam HI site and the other in the Spe I/ Sma I sites or vice versa . |
| 9 | The figures for this year show that £20 million-worth of coal will be imported to Britain by the end of December — the equivalent of closing 20 average-sized pits and getting rid of between 20,000 and 25,000 miners by throwing them on the scrap heap . |
| 10 | They can help companies by providing someone with a good knowledge of the latest techniques in management and business . ’ |
| 11 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |
| 12 | Of course a well-heeled litigant would still be able to frighten booksellers and newsagents by notifying them of the alleged libel and threatening to join them in the action unless they withdrew the offending publication from sale . |
| 13 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
| 14 | The Doctor was standing on his head and juggling the balls by knocking them with the soles of his feet whilst gargling ‘ The Star-Spangled Banner ’ . |
| 15 | A NURSING home boss punished teenage girl workers by spanking them on the bottom , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 16 | Anthony Perkins , the star of Psycho , had grown his own cannabis back home in Los Angeles and had thought to avoid being busted by customs by posting it to the hotel in Wales where he was due to stay in June 1989 . |
| 17 | In both cases , seed the filters by running them in an existing balanced set-up for a couple of days before a buying trip . |
| 18 | Let me now illustrate some of these things by introducing you to a twentieth-century saint who lived a life of love in a radical way . |
| 19 | The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate . |
| 20 | ( Crawford 's ultimate suspension from school came two weeks before he was due to take his leaving exams and he gained two CSEs by taking them in the hostel he was staying at . ) |
| 21 | Ropes and wires are fairly simple to test since it is easy to grip the ends by winding them round the barrel of a winch or capstan . |
| 22 | We have decided to amplify the chords by reduplicating them in the higher octave in order to obtain greater clearness and bite . |
| 23 | Then check your guesses by measuring them with a protractor . |
| 24 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 25 | Scald and skin the tomatoes by placing them in a bowl , pouring boiling water over them , counting to fifteen before pouring off the hot water and replacing it with cold . |
| 26 | You can insert comments into assembly language programs by preceding them with a semi-slash ( \ ) . |
| 27 | Inspired by the show , she dreamed up a tale of a Christian boy who blackmailed Muslim girls by luring them to an apartment where hidden video cameras filmed them in indecent postures . |
| 28 | Within this context of greater freedom for all schools , we will end the two-tier system created by Grant Maintained Schools and City Technology Colleges by returning them to the strategic planning framework of the local elected education authority . |
| 29 | The object is to catch all the other players by hitting them with the ball . |
| 30 | Moscow hoped to rally the opposition of the Non-Aligned against these developments by linking them to the Camp David Agreement and to Israeli policy . |