Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | GREENPEACE is accusing Nuclear Electric of risking safety by refusing to delay commissioning of the Sizewell B power station — despite a risk of cracks developing in the head of the vessel which forms the ‘ heart ’ of the reactor . |
| 2 | Analysts were agreed that the US government , at a time of economic crisis in Cuba , was determined to maintain the pressure on President Fidel Castro Ruz by refusing to allow travel to the USA to be become a safety valve for discontent on the island . |
| 3 | For by seeking to claim credit for the fact that Britain had not imposed a visa regime , Mr Wardle implicitly suggested that such measures obstruct refugees from gaining access to countries where they can seek asylum ( as indeed Amnesty believes they do ) . |
| 4 | The theory of social classes , first comprehensively formulated by Marx , approaches the same problem from the other side by seeking to explain democracy as the consequence of changes in society . |
| 5 | We have seen that war leaders of the late Middle Ages sought the achievement of their military aims either through the devastation of the countryside or , in certain circumstances , by seeking to gain control of the towns and castles which dominated it . |
| 6 | As I understood the submission , the Attorney-General was not contending that the use of Parliamentary material by the courts for the purposes of construction would constitute an ‘ impeachment ’ of freedom of speech since impeachment is limited to cases where a Member of Parliament is sought to be made liable , either in criminal or civil proceeding , for what he has said in Parliament , e.g. , by criminal prosecution , by action for libel or by seeking to prove malice on the basis of such words . |
| 7 | By aiming to depict Life in the 1990s , Kasdan has probably bitten off more than he can chew , but he masticates bravely . |
| 8 | For example , it may come as something of a surprise to find that , during the English Civil War , the Parliamentarian party , which controlled London and the mint in the Tower , emphasised its legitimacy by continuing to issue coinage in the king 's name , whereas at the Royalist mint of Oxford the king 's coinage proclaims : ‘ RELIG PROT LEG ANG LIBER PAR ’ ( ’ The religion of the Protestants , the laws of England and the liberty of Parliament ’ ) . |
| 9 | The data from Parkside conform with the results of previous British studies by failing to link readmission to the demographic characteristics of patients . |
| 10 | Personnel of the Operation Life-Line Sudan programme had on March 31 been forced by fighting to leave Bor for the second time in two weeks , although some 6,000 malnourished children were being fed from that distribution point . |
| 11 | I started out by trying to take advantage of the Cabriolet 's acoustic properties , so clean sounds were dialled , fingers flexed and picks replaced in pocket . |
| 12 | As the climate of controversy became sharper at the end of the 1780s reformers countered these varieties of the national interest argument both by emphasising the potential for the country in alternative patterns of commerce and production and , more defensively , by trying to reconcile abolition with the nation 's interest in security and order . |
| 13 | He alienated Henry one last time by seeming to offer support to the young king during the rebellion of 1173 . |