Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A printed DXF file is quickly recognisable by consisting mainly of a narrow strip of short lines down the left hand margin of each page , usually a large number of pages , and a great deal of white paper . |
| 2 | We start by bringing together in a compact and comparative form the key data for the various groups of intermediaries , in Table 4.3 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Our interest is in political theories that require neutrality , i.e. , that are followed by acting neutrally in a principled way . |
| 5 | This it does by turning away in a deliberate manner and refusing to look again at the glowering face . |
| 6 | Nottinghamshire SSD had tried to avoid applying for powers under a care order to remove three children from their home by going instead for a prohibited steps order to exclude their abusing father . |
| 7 | We can only augment the ABC with new letters in similar style ( as in the now outmoded 1960s Initial Teaching Alphabet ) or by starting again with a modern , simple , phonetic alphabet . |
| 8 | However the theory behind it is sound : there is greater scope for improving performance by concentrating on the average producer than by focusing exclusively on a few " bad apples " ( Berwick 1989 ) . |
| 9 | Sometimes , when accused of eccentricity or indeed perversity of vision , she would claim that all knowledge must always be omnipresent in all things , and that one could startle oneself into seeing the whole by tweaking unexpectedly at a surprised comer of the great mantle . |
| 10 | Both the Congress Party and India 's constitution have kept the rivalry in check by standing firmly for a secular India in which the state is impartial between religions . |
| 11 | Once back to bare wood , raise the grain by rubbing briskly with a stiff wire brush |
| 12 | Raquel upstaged Rebecca by arriving late in a skimpy mini-skirt . |
| 13 | Old Chelmsfordians are finding form and they completed a clean sweep for the sides who batted first by playing aggressively on a dry , quiet strip with Charrington hitting 83 not out . |
| 14 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 15 | There was no rain in the darkness , and she could make even its sound go away by concentrating hard for a few moments . |