Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preferred approach of Soviet officials was to confirm Iran 's abandonment of a pro-Western political and military policy by encouraging its association in the Non-Aligned Movement . |
| 2 | If you feel you often get unnecessarily short shrift in your interviews with professionals a question you must ask yourself is whether you have created an unfavourable impression by wasting their time in the past . |
| 3 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 4 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 5 | When he smiles , he looks slightly goofy , the skin pulled right over his cheeks like the face children make by sticking their fingers in the corners of their mouths . |
| 6 | I 'm sorry if I pitched it strong , but you 'll never get anywhere in business by sticking your head in the sand . |
| 7 | Get current : Have a Michael Bolton hairdo by sticking your finger in a socket . |
| 8 | Even the decoits in the interior of Sind who had been closely following Pakistan 's victory march in their hide-outs expressed their joy by firing their weapons in the air without fear of being discovered . |
| 9 | You can also enter a new media item into one of the uninitialised items which has not been displayed ( because it occurs between two initialised items ) by typing its number in the Start identifier field . |
| 10 | He indicated who he was talking about by drawing his arm in a wide sweep around the orchard . |
| 11 | He attempts to resolve the problem by affirming his belief in the ideal on the grounds that man 's life is an aspiration or a striving for , perfection , yet at the same time recognizing that in an imperfect world one has to make concessions to , or to cater for , human weakness . |
| 12 | During conflict , baboons may seek assistance from others by soliciting their participation in an attack upon an opponent . |
| 13 | This was to use his old friends of 216 Squadron to resupply his force by landing their Bombays in the desert . |
| 14 | To make a thought-flow chart , you begin by writing your topic in the centre and then literally allow your thoughts to flow around that topic . |
| 15 | Start by soaking your feet in a bowl of warm water to refresh , cleanse and soften the skin . |
| 16 | The government is hoping to tempt more people who are disabled or unemployed back to work by paying their benefits in an initial lump sum . |
| 17 | Pan American , which ordered several Airbus A320s a few years ago , made more than $100m by selling its place in the Airbus queue to another airline . |
| 18 | Together , by getting their fingers in the rat-holes , they managed to tug up a few feet of rotten chestnut boarding , tindery at the edges . |
| 19 | They can be persuaded to reveal the whereabouts of this treasure by holding their eyes in a fixed stare , though they will disappear the instant the mortal blinks . |
| 20 | Gregory , 20 , denies murdering Marion Rilka , 51 , by slitting her throat in a robbery attempt at her home . |
| 21 | No one is helped by doing so , or by reporting his discoveries in a tortured , tidied-up , formal account . |
| 22 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 23 | It went on to explain that when war broke out many country gentlemen , as well as the burgesses of a number of cities and towns , chose to serve the King not by joining his armies in the field , but by pulling up their drawbridges , slamming their gates , and challenging the enemy to contest the issue . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not sentimental , and nor am I flattered by having my photo in a newspaper , but my mother likes that sort of thing , so I 'm sending one to her in England , ’ she snapped , and hesitated perceptibly before continuing . |
| 25 | Ticks fasten themselves aboard by burying their mouthparts in the skin , and live by sucking the host 's blood . |
| 26 | Lord Keith 's career , in which he held important commands in distant waters , particularly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean , gave him further opportunities to strengthen his political interest by advancing his friends in the service . |
| 27 | Lin was writing about his native village but he tried to evade the problems posed by autobiographical honesty by couching his story in the form of a novel . |
| 28 | But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals in the general dining-room with the dairy people . |
| 29 | You can select any uninitialised item from the list displayed by LIFESPAN and initialise it by entering its details in the columns of the table , as described below . |
| 30 | You can allocate a media item to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |