Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [noun sg] in [art] " 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 | He kindly but firmly remonstrates with his wife : " Paying the debt " has a clear double meaning in the sexual/conjugal context which the wife , who is made to respond to her husband 's ignorance not by laughing at him but rather by underlining his innocence/ignorance in a play of irony for the tale 's readers/listeners to respond to as they think fit , picks up upon and develops into a crude pun : " " taille " " here is polysemous , reflecting two homonyms , taille , " tally , bill " , whereby line 416 reads : " I am your wife ; notch it up on my account " |
| 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 | Get current : Have a Michael Bolton hairdo by sticking your finger in a socket . |
| 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 indicated who he was talking about by drawing his arm in a wide sweep around the orchard . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During conflict , baboons may seek assistance from others by soliciting their participation in an attack upon an opponent . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Gregory , 20 , denies murdering Marion Rilka , 51 , by slitting her throat in a robbery attempt at her home . |
| 14 | Perhaps the best way of tricking readers into seeing but not seeing what you put in front of them is by stating your fact in a way that seems clearly to be doing so for a different purpose than that of playing the game . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not sentimental , and nor am I flattered by having my photo in a newspaper , but my mother likes that sort of thing , so I 'm sending one to her in England , ’ she snapped , and hesitated perceptibly before continuing . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | He walked away then and left Artemis trying to puzzle out what her father meant by putting her mother in the past tense . |
| 19 | BY PUTTING YOUR REFUSE IN AN APPROVED BIN OR TIED PLASTIC SACK |
| 20 | Men could only achieve full physical and mental gratification by discharging their semen in the act of copulation . |
| 21 | This deal was made acceptable to those provinces which would lose seats in the new Senate by increasing their representation in a House of Commons expanded from 295 to 337 members . |
| 22 | to assess the relative importance of these groups by studying their role in the formation of particular policies and |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
| 27 | A social worker could sum it up as : ‘ Mr Bloggs is immature , overcompensating by asserting his status in the family . |
| 28 | Senior staff tried to resolve the problem through a combination of individual counselling sessions and by eliciting his help in a long-term project to repair the pool tables . |
| 29 | Imelda , who vigorously protested her innocence of all crimes , continued to suggest that she wished to return to her homeland in order to honour her husband 's dying wish by interring his body in the Philippines . |
| 30 | When the big fish needs to eat other little fish , it signals it is switching back into normal hunting mode by jerking its jaw in a particular way . |