Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days . |
| 2 | The boys are furious when the police break their own rules by arresting them for public order offences while they are fighting on their home ground . |
| 3 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 4 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 5 | Ford began changing the way it treated its suppliers in 1980 by rating them for qual ity . |