Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both he and Ted McMinn were fined by the club after breaking a New Year curfew by sneaking out to a late-night disco the night before a crunch match against Celtic . |
| 2 | Furthermore , if males are in short supply in one generation , they will be selectively favoured by contributing disproportionately to the next generation . |
| 3 | But by walking up to the eastern corrie , Coire an Dothaidh , fear is not an issue ; only leg muscle . |
| 4 | Labour , by signing up to the Social Chapter and introducing a minimum wage of £3.40 an hour , will make flexible jobs for women with families far too expensive for most employers to contemplate . |
| 5 | I would conclude by returning briefly to the Marleasing judgment . |
| 6 | Baldwin inclined to the earlier date , mainly because he always sustained himself throughout the wearisomeness of the political year by looking forward to a relaxed August and September . |
| 7 | The effect of the maxim is to add to most utterances a pragmatic inference to the effect that the statement presented is the strongest , or most informative , that can be made in the situation ; in many cases the implicatures can be glossed by adding only to the propositional content of the sentence , e.g. " Nigel has only fourteen children " , " the flag is only white " , " Harry only got a fine " . |
| 8 | In these circumstances the ego simply has no hope of triumphing by measuring up to the ideal standards of the superego , in so far as it exists . |
| 9 | A bit of bother with walkers trudging through his land can soon be sorted out by nipping along to an agricultural auction and purchasing some huge stinking cows . |
| 10 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that by going on to the offensive the UN force saved Zaire from being cut in two by civil war . |
| 12 | Channel 4 's comedy department has at last found the right format for a cabaret star — by going back to the innocent childhood of TV comedy . |
| 13 | If any walls appear to lean , check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down . |
| 14 | So it 's use the red obviously the title and the red 's for your introduction to say what you 're going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what you 've said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective . |
| 15 | And a very good example , if you put these two together just to see what you can do by moving round to a different viewpoint . |
| 16 | As González remarks , ‘ Given the Guatemalan precedent [ in 1954 the CIA organised the overthrow of left-wing President Arbenz ] [ Castro ] may therefore have calculated that if his regime was inevitably to be labelled as ‘ Communist ’ , he had everything to gain by moving closer to the Cuban Communists who could serve as brokers in obtaining indispensable Soviet assistance' ( González : 1968 , p. 48 ) . |
| 17 | Another is to reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject , either by shifting to a more suitable setting or by moving in to a bigger close-up so that the dark background is reduced in size . |
| 18 | In the legend of Theseus , in Greek mythology , he prevented himself from getting lost in the Cretan labyrinth by holding on to a silken thread . |
| 19 | Note the tension produced by holding on to the passing note of A♯ in bars 12 and 16 , and the ‘ heavy ’ sound of the minor 3rd ( G natural ) against the E7 chord in bar 18 , anticipating the ♭7th of the A7 to follow . |
| 20 | Cut , stay where you are but reframe the shot by zooming out to a wider angle before continuing the recording . |
| 21 | Here the path defeats the contours by zigzagging up to a final easy incline along the edge of cliffs to the Ordnance Survey column among the ruins of a former observatory . |
| 22 | Carry out deadheading often , combining with light pruning where appropriate by cutting back to a strong bud well down the stem . |
| 23 | You may be able to accommodate this bending by tying in to a longish pergola or trellis on a wall or fence . |
| 24 | By referring back to the earlier documents it was obvious that Coopers had agreed with Peats and disagreed with Deloittes . |