Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [verb] they [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | A NURSING home boss punished teenage girl workers by spanking them on the bottom , an industrial tribunal heard yesterday . |
| 13 | In both cases , seed the filters by running them in an existing balanced set-up for a couple of days before a buying trip . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We have decided to amplify the chords by reduplicating them in the higher octave in order to obtain greater clearness and bite . |
| 18 | Then check your guesses by measuring them with a protractor . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You can insert comments into assembly language programs by preceding them with a semi-slash ( \ ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The object is to catch all the other players by hitting them with the ball . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Attempting to duck the consequences of hard decisions by leaving them to the last possible minute or by creating distance through solely informing parents by letter places the initiative in the hands of others . |
| 26 | Lukic was panicking , dealing with Newsome 's backpasses by drilling them off the park headlong into the stands . |
| 27 | For hundreds of years , the Caramoja tribe of Northern Uganda have attempted to elongate their penises by knotting them to the backs of watercarts which are then pulled around the village by mules . |
| 28 | Indeed there is a sense in which the clarity of his spiritual and theological doctrines inhibited clarity on political issues by relegating them to a position of relative unimportance : they led Anselm to believe that the system of joint secular and ecclesiastical responsibility for the functioning of the Church was as acceptable as any other . |
| 29 | Among the most important of these indirect effects is the role which test cases can play in politicising issues by forcing them onto the political agenda and once there in keeping them alive . |
| 30 | Its pattern-searching strategy resolves many theoretical issues by placing them within the constraint of empirical evidence . |