Example sentences of "by [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore , if the problem is seen to be women taking men 's jobs , making them unemployed , the problem is one of macroeconomic policy , and is not to be solved by effectively concentrating it in a disguised fashion among non-working wives .
2 By further describing it as a ritual , the author might be taken to suggest that it was also part of an ongoing practice governed by unalterable rules .
3 Two huntsmen have been cleared of ill-treating a horse by repeatedly striking it with a whip .
4 He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish .
5 Both parties adopted the name League of Communists — Party of Democratic Change , and announced that the LCY could only survive by embracing a clearly-defined democratic reform policy and by radically restructuring itself as a confederation of independent parties .
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