Example sentences of "[adv] by [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 7 | In this way , word senses can be disambiguated simply by comparing them with the definitions of neighbouring words . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ As well as a winter break , there 's another reason for my visit , Elinor , but I did n't want to alarm you unnecessarily by discussing it over the telephone . ‘ |
| 17 | These four factors may be justified intuitively by putting them in the context of the discounted cash flow ( DCF ) valuation model . |