Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID Mellor headed for the political wilderness yesterday by comparing himself to a great British hero . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |