Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [noun] in the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'm sorry if I pitched it strong , but you 'll never get anywhere in business by sticking your head in the sand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This was to use his old friends of 216 Squadron to resupply his force by landing their Bombays in the desert . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Ticks fasten themselves aboard by burying their mouthparts in the skin , and live by sucking the host 's blood . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But he soon preferred to read human nature by taking his meals in the general dining-room with the dairy people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You can allocate a media item to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |
| 20 | You can allocate a media unit to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |
| 21 | Since much of our ‘ intellectual debt ’ to the originators of ideas is filtered by reading their ideas in the works of others , it is difficult to acknowledge the extent to which the originators have influenced our thinking . |
| 22 | The worker then reduces it to its proper thinness by putting its head in the cells on either side of the wall and shaving off layers from the face of it . |
| 23 | He walked away then and left Artemis trying to puzzle out what her father meant by putting her mother in the past tense . |
| 24 | Men could only achieve full physical and mental gratification by discharging their semen in the act of copulation . |
| 25 | The other was more subtle ; by housing his workers in the country , where life was far healthier than in the crowded tenements of the city , he could provide them with space to grow their own vegetables . |
| 26 | to assess the relative importance of these groups by studying their role in the formation of particular policies and |
| 27 | The angle at which sound strikes the slits greatly affects the strength in which it reaches the drum , so the grasshopper , by waving its legs in the air , can discover the direction from which a call is coming . |
| 28 | I kept them away by waving my sword in the air , but their wild cries frightened me , and the horrible smell from their bodies made me feel sick . |
| 29 | All the tortured expressions that register on the face while the body is in the throes of an aerobic workout , so the theory runs , end up by leaving their mark in the form of — there 's no other word for it — wrinkles . |
| 30 | The Working People 's Alliance had responded by resigning its seat in the National Assembly on Feb. 3 , and the conservative United Force and the main opposition People 's Progressive Party similarly declared on April 2 that their members would resign their seats . |