Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] them [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 4 | Indeed , I have blundered straight away by placing them in a context of the 1960s and 1970s , as though in 1970 they stopped ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |
| 9 | In either case files can be pulled off the PC or Macintosh simply by selecting them from the user interface . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These four factors may be justified intuitively by putting them in the context of the discounted cash flow ( DCF ) valuation model . |