Example sentences of "by [v-ing] to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canes can be made more secure by fastening to a horizontal wire . |
| 2 | By sticking to a small range of products , they simplify distribution . |
| 3 | As with the loop , your first roll should be performed by climbing to a safe height , putting on lots of forward speed ( it helps to do it downwind ) and holding the lateral cyclic hard over until the roll is complete . |
| 4 | The pleasures of art tend to be diminished by returning to a complete absence of hot bath water . |
| 5 | As important is how processors will share data amongst themselves , whether by writing to a common memory or by sending messages to each other . |
| 6 | This problem may be illustrated by listening to a foreign language ( about which one has no knowledge ) and trying to determine the location of the word boundaries . |
| 7 | The segmentation problem for speech may be illustrated by listening to a foreign language about which one has no knowledge and trying to locate the word-breaks . |
| 8 | factors such as the protein erythropoietin can stimulate red blood cell amplification and there is an increased production of erythropoietin when there is a shortage of oxygen , caused , for example , by going to a higher altitude . |
| 9 | Yes , but C and G are actually very good er very sound er on their er ratios , they 're pretty good , but erm some of them are n't so good , and you know , be careful when you 're coming to invest in building societies I 'd stick to the major players at the moment , even though you may get a premium by going to a smaller society . |
| 10 | It provided the synthesis of ideology and utopia , theory and praxis , by moving to a new kind of historical dynamic . |
| 11 | The structure of the company has been changed to bring the business closer to the customer by moving to a divisional structure , with each divisional director responsible for 150 contracts , and with 18 UK divisions . |
| 12 | If you are sitting in a very large house on your own , which is draining away your resources because it still has mortgage payments to be met and it takes a lot of money to heat and light every year , you must seriously consider cashing in on your assets by moving to a smaller house that eliminates your mortgage and cuts down on running costs , or by taking out an annuity on your house . |
| 13 | By switching to a less meat based diet , we can actually help to reduce the wastage worldwide . |
| 14 | By switching to a universal-banking structure , banks will be able to shake off such shackles . |
| 15 | In clinical practice the sufferer is helped to see that there are other choices , other " pictures " that can be put into the mental library of how life is or could be , and that there is no need to attempt to control one 's life by clinging to a fixed perception of reality that may have some validity for the sufferer but little validity for others . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't even know the water was there , ’ said Couples , whose Augusta victory came after his tee shot to the short 12th on the final afternoon defied gravity by clinging to a near-vertical bank instead of dropping back into the lake . |
| 17 | Those points that fall outside this envelope can be further analysed directly by pointing to a particular location . |
| 18 | And even those modern fictional texts , such as the novels of Samuel Beckett , that seem dedicated to demonstrating the impossibility of communicating anything to anybody about anything , do so by alluding to a paradigmatic act of storytelling , a paradise lost of communication : |
| 19 | Conflict : The bank may be able to circumvent these ceilings by lending to a third party who subsequently re-lends to the securities division . |
| 20 | Porlier found his career as a guerrilla general rewarded by posting to a provincial garrison . |
| 21 | Lack of viable opposition enabled the regent to resolve her financial problems by resorting to a radical solution . |
| 22 | Second , by resorting to a medical route ( and a compulsory one at that ) for dealing with problems of women , frequently having a major psychosocial element , their behaviour indicated a limited frame of reference for viewing these problems — a predominantly biophysical perspective . |
| 23 | Warm weather gives a golfer the chance of maximising distance simply by changing to a higher compression ball . |
| 24 | Rhetorically its strategy of reiteration attempts to unify different groups into one political bloc by appealing to a single source of oppression which they all share . |
| 25 | The intended victim of sorcery could take counter-measures by appealing to a supernatural being , and these counter-measures could in some cases transfer the intended harm to the person who had initiated it . |
| 26 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 27 | Hon. Members could easily have been misled by referring to a previous Hansard which shows that a substantial number of ships are on order but fails to reflect the Government 's commitment to naval shipbuilding . |
| 28 | The contraction of the work caused by using cable patterns may be partly counteracted by working to a looser tension than usual and this should be tried on the sample . |
| 29 | The students spar lightly , each trying to score a point by striking to a certain area of the body , employing everything he knows in his kung fu arsenal to overcome his opponent 's defence and attack procedures . |
| 30 | Eliminate the temptation to turn to the food cupboard for comfort by reducing to a minimum foods that can harm you : biscuits , cakes , crisps , pies , sweets , chocolate , pizzas and even bread . |