Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 2 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 3 | Imagine a mercantile agent who obtains possession of the goods ( perhaps by borrowing them from the owner ) and who shows them to X , an innocent prospective purchaser . |
| 4 | The reasoning behind it being that she would not be able to come to terms with the notion of her mother being dead , so by removing her from the place where the tragedy had occurred and allowing enough time to pass , she would better be able to come to terms with her loss . |
| 5 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 6 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
| 7 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 8 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 9 | Answer : You can make all the programs that you always want start automatically by placing them in a special group in the Program Manager called Startup . |
| 10 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it looks very much as if he was able to help young Ben out a bit : probably by employing him as a commercial traveller in his own drapery business . |
| 12 | The microcomputer should have a form of security e.g. by bolting it to a desk if it is to remain in one place all the time , perhaps next to the library catalogue . |
| 13 | A turntable helps food to cook evenly by raising it off the oven floor so the microwaves can reach underneath , and by turning the food as it cooks . |
| 14 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 15 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |
| 16 | Individuals from any one country were now able to obtain any other currency for trade purposes simply by purchasing it via the foreign exchange markets . |
| 17 | In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface . |
| 18 | In England there was a belief that warts could be removed simply by rubbing them with the tail of a tortoiseshell tom during the month of May . |
| 19 | David Anderson has been acquitted on a jury 's not proven verdict of murdering Raymond Mullan three years ago by stabbing him through the heart with a hunting knife . |
| 20 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 21 | Such materials have the advantage that they can be made permanently hard by heating them to a temperature around 15°C , for which reason polymers with this sort of constitution are called ‘ thermosetting ’ . |
| 22 | Bury cuttings to half their depth , either by pushing them into the soil or by lining them along the side of a slit cut in the soil with a spade ( in heavy soil , sprinkle a layer of sand at the base of the slit ) . |
| 23 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 24 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 25 | Temporary mains-voltage lighting ( and the transformer for low-voltage lighting ) can be protected either by plugging it into an adaptor RCD , which goes into the socket outlet first , or by plugging it into an RCD socket , which can easily be fitted to replace a normal socket outlet . |
| 26 | He refused outright the advice of his ‘ betters ’ , either by alienating them in a flash of rage or by stubbornly preferring not to go along with them ; rather like Melville 's eponymous character Bartleby . |
| 27 | The tune can , of course , always bear strengthening , and this can be done either by giving it to the two trumpets in unison , and the alto and tenor parts to the tenor trombones , or by giving the alto and tenor parts to the 2nd trumpet and 1st trombone respectively and doubling the tune in the lower octave on the 2nd trombone . |
| 28 | Consent can adversely affect the normative situation of the agent either by placing him under an obligation or by derogating from his rights . |
| 29 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 30 | In Rask the Court was faced with a typical case of an employer which had decided that the management of a particular ancillary part of its activities , in this case the management of its staff canteens , could be achieved more effectively by entrusting it to a specialist operator , ISS ( the defendants in the national litigation ) rather than by continuing to provide it itself . |