Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By seeing yourself open as a chalice , a channel of cosmic energies , you reduce the risk of becoming drained as a result of drawing on your own energy reserves . |
| 2 | make informed judgements regarding the most appropriate approach to a particular liquid effluent treatment problem by helping them to scan through a variety of technical options and to eliminate the less sensible ones ; |
| 3 | The agreement , by which Merck will pay the Institute $1 million , is intended to provide an incentive for the conservation of Costa Rica 's remaining forest lands , by allowing them to serve as a sustainable productive resource of materials other than timber . |
| 4 | Meaningful structure can be given to a visit or placement by using it to work towards a SCOTVEC module like ‘ Experiencing Europe ’ . |
| 5 | Likewise , the novel plays with normative paradigms such as those proposed by Greimas which seek to standardize narrative by defining it according to a canonic conception of what a story is . |
| 6 | Democrats in Congress do not want to embarrass the president by forcing him to choose between a veto of their bill and a snub of China — to say nothing of wounding Mr Patten . |
| 7 | You can focus your students on visual elements by getting them to talk about a number of aspects of a scene . |
| 8 | The Are You Listening ? approach motivates children to develop this important skill by requiring them to listen with a purpose . |
| 9 | If you are running a rally aimed at inspiring and motivating people , do n't start by having them arrive in a strange city to find the car park full , the nearest suitable alternative two miles away and no taxis available because it 's Sunday evening and pouring with rain . |
| 10 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 11 | It is the ‘ heaps of fantastic things ’ in the old curiosity shop which , by making her exist in a kind of allegory , suggest her story to him , ‘ holding her solitary way among a crowd of wild grotesque companions ’ . |
| 12 | At the Huntingdonshire Eyre in 1255 , for example , Norman Sampson , a riding forester , was convicted of having extorted money from a man in his bailiwick by making him sit upon a harrow . |
| 13 | Criticism and poetics both constrict the text by making it conform to a meaning or to a model . |
| 14 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 15 | Vincent made a start by setting himself exercises from a popular drawing manual , the Cours de Dessin Bargue , and by painstakingly copying prints . |