Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no choice about the way through ; if you enter you can only earn the right to emerge by submitting yourself to a series of confrontations with the work . |
| 2 | While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen . |
| 3 | Durability , comfort , less fatigue and increased ball control are some of the reasons why it has become a Grand Slam surface , and why En Tout Cas decided to endorse its stated policy of choice and availability of surfaces , by bringing it to the UK . |
| 4 | Where identification is a morally valuable attitude which can be expressed by binding oneself to the authority , one has a reason to do so which is served by consent to the authority . |
| 5 | In this section the operation of ambiguity tests will be illustrated by applying them to a selection of difficult cases . |
| 6 | The principles can be demonstrated by applying them to the design of a stepped shaft where a maximum stress concentration factor has been specified . |
| 7 | They won by applying themselves to the job in hand and , if they had continued to do the same in the Tests , it might have been an interesting summer . |
| 8 | This study has illustrated the ways in which the social sciences created ‘ new knowledges ’ as they revolutionized themselves , and none more so than psychology which obtained its influential position by applying itself to a number of ‘ practices ’ involving problems of the ‘ abnormal functioning ’ of either individuals or institutions . |
| 9 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 10 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 11 | Harrison explained that a few months earlier eight European environmentalists had stirred up international press coverage by chaining themselves to a logging barge at Miri . |
| 12 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 13 | The man showed his gratitude by recommending him to the Bishop for ordination . |
| 14 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 15 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 16 | When God appeared to Abraham in the guise of three strangers in need of hospitality , Abraham greeted them by bowing himself to the ground once ( 18.2 ) . |
| 17 | Indeed there is a sense in which the clarity of his spiritual and theological doctrines inhibited clarity on political issues by relegating them to a position of relative unimportance : they led Anselm to believe that the system of joint secular and ecclesiastical responsibility for the functioning of the Church was as acceptable as any other . |
| 18 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 19 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 20 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 21 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 22 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 23 | But I still say , it seems a shame that they are prepared to make money by selling it to a Tescos of all people to er really make money so they can move somewhere else ! |
| 24 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |
| 25 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 26 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 27 | Nothing here said denies that one reason for holding voluntary undertakings to be binding is to enable people to encourage reliance by committing themselves to a course of action . |
| 28 | The plant can be anchored to the bottom by tying it to a piece of wood , roots or rock . |
| 29 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 30 | After a hard day chasing rabbits and catching sticks , what better way to relax than by treating yourself to an aromatherapy massage . |