Example sentences of "by [verb] to [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ You can tell if their attitude 's right just by talking to them for a few minutes , ’ he says . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This relationship was discovered by Gauss who recognized its importance by referring to it as the ‘ Excellent ’ Theorem . |