Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My deliberate actions are means to ends , and are defended in debate by proving them adequate to the ends . |
| 2 | He had had the playwright in his power , and been tempted to astonish the court and the television audiences by sucking him dry on the stand . |
| 3 | LONDON TOWERS caught Carlsberg League champions Roland Kingston with their guard down for the second time this season by defeating them 103-97 at the Michael Sobell Centre , Islington , on Sunday night . |
| 4 | It is easy to denigrate age-related treatment policies by tarring them all with the brush of the neologism ‘ ageist ’ . |
| 5 | MUSIC lovers were yesterday told how to make ‘ significant ’ savings on compact discs by ordering them direct from the US . |
| 6 | Lindqvist often troubled Javer by pulling her wide with an excellent forehand , but Javer kept her head , moved well to the ball , and hit out hard and accurately . |
| 7 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 8 | This could be made slightly less astringent by mixing it 50/50 with a flower water or distilled water . |
| 9 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 10 | Keep the children amused while you 're cooking by giving them one of the books from the new Safeway Superbooks range . |
| 11 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 12 | What a storm Sandy Lyle created by making himself unavailable for the Ryder Cup . |
| 13 | By making it possible for a vivid and urgent desire for power to exist alongside a consciousness of being the legitimate and predestined possessor of it , they kept the edge on the governing classes . |
| 14 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 15 | The therapist should prepare the patient for termination by making it clear from the first interview that a relatively short period of treatment is planned . |
| 16 | Elaborate precautions were taken to avoid disputes over precedence between the representatives of France and Spain ( the long-standing rivalry between these two states was the most serious potential source of this kind of friction ) by placing them both on the king 's right and at the same distance from him . |
| 17 | Do n't warm wine by placing it next to a radiator or open fire , as this will cause it to taste coarse . |
| 18 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 19 | Er Ministers are often in a very grave difficulty these days , if they do n't listen er er they 're accused o o of being autocratic , i i if they do listen , er then they 're accused of making u-turns , well even the gathering swine did n't have to make a u-turn , a change of direction would have been quite sufficient and I welcome the change of direction which the Home Secretary ha has made erm the objectives of this Bill are I think to be commended , but it is be perfectly clear from the outset that you ca n't combat crime by antagonising everyone concerned with the enforcement of law and order , the police authorities , the police and the magistrates . |