Example sentences of "[adv] by [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization … |
| 2 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 3 | Just as one can know whether one is short or tall only by comparing oneself with others , so one can know whether one 's own political system is " short " or " tall " only by putting it alongside other systems and noting the differences . |
| 4 | You can move icons just by dragging them to new positions . |
| 5 | He was somehow managing to make her begin to doubt her own words — simply by subjecting her to that look of dark unbelief . |
| 6 | The bill entered into force on March 13 , and under a transitional regulation in force until the end of 1990 citizens were allowed to resume using their former names simply by registering them with local authorities ; after 1990 a name could only be changed subject to approval and registration by a court of law . |
| 7 | Drain and refresh immediately by steeping them in cold water . |
| 8 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 9 | And in the end the district council were able to afford a bit of funding towards staff , which broke a tradition that district councils tended only to fund premises , erm , and indeed the district council have done that as well in our case , recently by moving them to better premises . |
| 10 | The same was true of James Joule 's experiment in which water was warmed quantitatively by stirring it in special apparatus : a definite quantity of mechanical force in the clockwork produced a definite quantity of heat-but the context of this was argument about the nature of heat , and Joule seemed to have proved that it was motion of particles rather than a substance . |