Example sentences of "by [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The campaign against scroungers began in the mid-seventies when the Labour government inaugurated the recession with public spending cuts and implicated the poor in the nation 's plight by refusing to immunise them against the economic squeeze . |
| 2 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 3 | Then on 7 May we had the visit of Mamie Magnusson , who kindly agreed at short notice to launch our Christian Aid Sale by coming to present us with an autographed copy of her enthralling history of the Woman 's Guild 's first century . |
| 4 | Otherwise we put the continuity of vital work in jeopardy by failing to shelter it from the winds of international currency exchanges . |
| 5 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 6 | For one way of denying someone the respect to which he is entitled is by failing to treat him as an autonomous agent , for example , by unreasonably restricting the range of alternative courses of action from which he can choose . |
| 7 | And as for women in their 30s and 40s , Time claims they feel the feminist movement betrayed them by failing to warn them about the sacrifices women had to make in exchange for equality and by pursuing the wrong goals — pushing more strongly for the equal rights amendment than for child care or flexible working hours . |
| 8 | If you have lost your glasses , it may be that you upset your friends by failing to recognize them in the street . |
| 9 | Also , by failing to protect them from the sun , you may cause problems for your kids later . |
| 10 | I have always thought that maybe I had damaged the transfer needle by trying to use it with the ribber bed on half pitch . |
| 11 | But he was n't going to get out of it by trying to put her in the wrong . |
| 12 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 13 | The prize , however , was taken by the Lithuanian who decided to liven up Roger Payne 's ascent of Comes The Dervish by trying to pull him off the crux . |