Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [art] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He is also addressing the criticism that the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain ( FRAC ) , funds to enable the regions to acquire contemporary works of art , represent more intervention of the centre by encouraging the funds ' association with local structures . |
2 | This would mean , of course , that the town would begin to exert not only an influence but a direct effective power over the School by subsidising the Master 's salary . |
3 | Ticks fasten themselves aboard by burying their mouthparts in the skin , and live by sucking the host 's blood . |
4 | The louse then feeds by sucking the fish 's blood . |
5 | He measured their distance by charting the galaxy 's spectrum , and measuring how much the wavelengths are stretched by the expansion of the Universe — in other words , how far the spectral lines are ‘ red shifted ’ along the spectrum . |
6 | It was held that he could not , since by accepting the seller 's offer on the telephone he had accepted the goods and thereby affirmed the contract . |
7 | Dozzell captured the festive mood by accepting the fan 's gift of a blue Santa hat , which he concealed beneath his jersey until the final whistle . |
8 | 4.1 The Publisher agrees to credit the Author for his/her contributions by including the Author 's name in the end credits of the Video and on the front and spine of the video cassette box . |
9 | 4.1 The Publisher agrees to credit the Author for his/her contributions by including the Author 's name in the end credits of the Video and on the front and spine of the video cassette box . |
10 | The only way to win a war of attrition is by halting the enemy 's advance and cutting off all the aggressor 's supply lines . |
11 | During 1990 it was believed that the strength of the NPA had fallen to around 19,000 compared with 25,600 in 1988 , as a result of the continuing success of the armed forces in disrupting and demoralizing the guerrillas by targeting the movement 's leadership . |
12 | This shows that only by allowing the authority 's judgment to pre-empt mine altogether will I succeed in improving my performance and bringing it to the level of the authority . |
13 | The PT-gliadin reactive fraction was affinity-purified by using the PT-gliadin-Sepharose 4B column according to the procedure earlier described in detail . |
14 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
15 | Weighting the footrest still further increases grip by counteracting the tyre 's tendency to sideslip and crucially helps move the machine upright where the tyre contact patch is larger , offering improved grip and predictability . |
16 | By acquiring an elephant 's head , Ganesa also assumed the elephant 's sagacity and became the patron of literature . |
17 | It is the nurse 's responsibility to prevent pressure sores developing by relieving pressure at least 2 hourly , by alternating the patient 's position . |
18 | His father died when he was three years old , leaving his mother to support and bring up seven children , providing for her family by opening a greengrocer 's shop and later a modest boarding house . |
19 | It is not just that we clearly do understand something ; rather we know in advance that it is only by understanding the sceptic 's argument as we are clearly expected to , that we could be led to believe that we understand nothing . |
20 | Sr Gillian Price , a nun based in Hertfordshire , has ignited a debate in religious newspapers by condemning the Vatican 's position on the death penalty , and contrasting it with the Church 's unequivocal stand on abortion . |
21 | Conditioners help by smoothing the hair 's surface and replenishing some of its natural moisture . |
22 | Photovoltaics lets those people make their own power on the spot by capturing the sun 's energy . |
23 | The government plan to help private operators by robbing the Railworkers ' Pension Fund of millions of pounds to subsidize their operations for passenger and freight on a scale that B R have never ever known . |
24 | The correct sense is chosen by accessing the word 's sense definitions within the O.E.D. , then counting the words that each sense definition has in common with the definitions of the other words in the immediate context . |
25 | A second very late gene , p10 , which is responsible for the synthesis of a non-structural protein , has been successfully utilized to express foreign proteins either by replacing the resident p10 gene ( 5 , 6 ) or by duplicating the p10 promoter and inserting it elsewhere in the AcNPV genome , eg , in proximity to the ph gene site ( 4 ) . |
26 | Suddenly he exploded , yelled at the porter to buzz off , and broke union regulations by pushing the children 's luggage himself to the two West Indian women who were meeting them . |
27 | During the same period , however , a group within the leadership of the ATAM was beginning , partly under the influence of the ICSITM , and using resources generated by developing the Association 's membership in arenas relatively untapped by the Mathematical Association , to argue for the introduction of post-1800 algebraic ideas [ … ] into school syllabuses . |
28 | In the case of securities we may use the capital asset pricing model developed in Chapter 5 , where the expected return on security i , ( E(ri) ) is determined by multiplying the security 's beta coefficient by the market risk premium and adding the result to the risk-free rate of interest . |
29 | Search and replace features can be used to personalise correspondence by adding the recipient 's name to the document or , as in this example , to make it easier to input frequently used long words . |
30 | By surrounding the subject 's head with a detector array , connected to suitable computer hardware , it is possible to build up images of the brain , indicating the areas of different levels of radioactivity , and hence of metabolic activity . |