Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they really refer to and bring to expression is his meaning for us ; and their significance is to be grasped afresh , not by their simple repetition , but by returning behind them to the history of Jesus ' life and teaching , and to the message of his cross and resurrection . |
| 2 | In the short term shells may be marked with blobs of paint or even by writing on them with a pencil , but a more permanent mark may be made by cutting a groove into the shell lip with a hacksaw . |
| 3 | I think that this is best explained , not by looking at lots of particular theories , but by looking at one as an example of how the basic problem — how cumulative selection got its start — might be solved . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , he can atone for his sins by waiting on you for a few days , ’ Jack said laughingly . |
| 5 | What we feel is that by going at it like a bull in a china shop , we all sorts of accusations of widespread privatisation has actually backfired . |
| 6 | God is God , not man writ large ; and he can not be spoken of simply by speaking of ourselves in a loud voice . |
| 7 | One should note , however , that although a mother bird may encourage her chicks to fly by calling to them from a branch some distance away , holding some tasty morsel in her beak as an inducement , all the same , she is not actually teaching them to fly . |
| 8 | Faced with a row of objects we do not , he said , lampooning Wittgenstein , perform appropriately by pointing to one after the other saying that 's a tree , that 's a tree , that 's a man , that 's a tree . |
| 9 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
| 10 | Traditionally the Bank of England supported the discount houses , and thus indirectly the banking sector as a whole , by lending to them at a rate of its own choosing , known since 1971 as minimum lending rate . |
| 11 | They are old enough to remember the early days of independence , when the departing British pushed them towards a pan-Caribbean federation of English-speakers ; but the people of Jamaica , the largest potential member ( with 2.5m people now ) , killed that by voting against it in a referendum . |
| 12 | The American New Critics remained true to the spirit of Richards 's work by emphasizing the distinctive properties of literature or poetry , and by dealing with them in a way which was not only empiricist , humanistic and organicist , but also theoretical as well . |
| 13 | And the judge tried effectively to ‘ settle ’ the matter by dealing with it through the ordinary channels of taxation . |
| 14 | On Friday 4th March we all went out of Peking by bus to spend a morning at a commune — part of the ‘ Open-Door Schooling ’ policy , the idea being that by interpreting for us at the commune , and by collecting information etc. , the students could improve their English , and also devise suitable English-teaching materials based on commune life . |
| 15 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 16 | If a child brings in his birthday cards , then the teacher might explore his interest by talking with him about the number of cards , the pictures ( colours , sizes , what 's happening , etc. ) , the shape and size of the cards , and the number symbol . |
| 17 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 18 | No direct descent from the summit of Caisteal Liath is possible other than by falling off it to a certain death , and steps must be retraced to the saddle , where another gully , a counterpart to that used in the ascent , offers an alternative route of return to Lochinver . |
| 19 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 20 | Mr Kohl helps keep Mr Schäuble 's stock high by referring to him as a future chancellor , but by ‘ future ’ he does not mean ‘ soon ’ . |
| 21 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 22 | I may indeed remind my friend of a thought I had by referring to it as the one I had on first wakening in Venice . |
| 23 | This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem . |
| 24 | These pull-down menus can all be accessed either by pressing ALT and the appropriate letter , or by clicking on them with the mouse . |
| 25 | Additional handles can be added to the second frame simply by clicking on it with the mouse and these are then dragged to re-shape the boundary . |