Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clancy Fernando was killed in Colombo on Nov. 16 when a suicide bomber , believed to be a member of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , activated a bomb by crashing his motorcycle into the admiral 's car . |
| 2 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | West Indies have answered speculation about Viv Richards 's health by naming him captain for the Champions ' Trophy tournament in Sharjah and the Nehru tournament in India . |
| 5 | Thankfully one of the other people in the flat was from keighley and a fellow whites fan ( had trials with them he kept telling me , and scored against Lukic — a fact he celebrated by naming his cat after the illustrious man ) so they press cuttings did n't last too long . |
| 6 | Poulantzas therefore develops his theory by elaborating his conception of the capitalist state and tracing its connection with the class struggle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By biding his time in the immediate aftermath of Mao 's death , he could prepare for a rise to power in the CCP . |
| 9 | After 1400 , it has been noted , lawyers in the Parlement of Paris consistently tried to show the respectability of their soldier-clients by underlining their service to the king and the public good : ‘ … a longuement servy le roy ’ ; ‘ … tient frontier contre les enemis ’ ; ‘ … il a esté grevé car lui estant en expedicion pour la chose publique ’ are phrases which , when used regularly , tell us something of the values of the society in which they are uttered , and of the soldier 's role in it . |
| 10 | They replace traditional legitimations of power by appearing in the mantle of modern science and by deriving their justification from the critique of ideology . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry if I pitched it strong , but you 'll never get anywhere in business by sticking your head in the sand . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once in the set-up position , you will need to check your alignment by rotating your head towards the target . |
| 14 | She achieves birth , instead , by bracing her body against the ground with her forelegs and then inflating her lungs so that they swell into her abdomen and squeeze the young out by pneumatic pressure . |
| 15 | the only thing but I mean you know you accepted what he said and then went on and , and by using your picture with the , with the cheque I mean you had him eating out your hand at the end did n't you ? |
| 16 | By using our understanding of the nature of a node and the storage therein of energy , the development of callus healing tissue , and the development from that of adventitious tissue ( see page 59 et seq . ) , |
| 17 | Could we get the same result by using our formula for the vector potential ( eqn(3.17) ) ? |
| 18 | Seth had been defeated by Horus but took legal action to establish his claim to the throne of Osiris by bringing his case before the nine gods of Heliopolis . |
| 19 | Deafened at the age of three months as a result of a fall from his nurse 's arms , he took full advantage of his independent means by devoting his life to the service of his fellow-deaf as an honourary missioner in his native city of Liverpool and as a licensed lay reader excelling in the conduct of religious services for the deaf . |
| 20 | He should begin by drawing her attention to the dividend yield of Barclays Bank . |
| 21 | In other words , he need n't have told Pooh that there was honey , he could have shown him that there was — for example , by drawing his attention to the pot of honey on the sideboard . |
| 22 | The University of Nottingham is meeting these challenges by maintaining its commitment to the highest quality teaching and research . |
| 23 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Therefore he can not be acting ultra vires and unlawfully by applying his view of the domestic law in reaching his decision . |
| 26 | The defendant squatter , Tillson , had occupied several acres of agricultural land belonging to the council since 1967 , but in 1983 he had apparently acknowledged the plaintiff council 's title by becoming their tenant of the land . |
| 27 | After months of injury frustration , he took a definite up-swing on Tuesday by launching his season with the two-goal blast that wrecked Blackburn 's unbeaten run . |
| 28 | Your Royal Highness , commodores , and members of the Association , may I begin my report by thanking you Ma'am for the time you have given to our sport , for being with us at our Annual General Meeting and for the address you have just delivered . |
| 29 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 30 | But Tilda had taught herself to produce , by widening her mouth into the shape of an oblong , a most unpleasant imitation of a bosun 's whistle , which could be heard almost as far as Lord Jim . |