Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when it becomes clear that a criminal case is not proceeding as anticipated — a trial is not scuppered by lobbing something into the ring — there are discreet discussions between learned friends in chambers , many exchanges of the phrase ‘ I 'm much obliged ’ and finally the jury is summoned back . |
| 2 | We have compared the expression levels of VP6 and NS1 proteins in alternative sites by cloning one into the Bam HI site and the other in the Spe I/ Sma I sites or vice versa . |
| 3 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 4 | Evangelism does not simply happen through persuasive individuals , but through communities of believers , who give credibility to the proclamation , by demonstrating something of the reality of what they speak . |
| 5 | Again , as last week , try to be as physically active as possible during the next 24 hours , avoiding temptation by doing something outside the kitchen . |
| 6 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 7 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 8 | When asked why he could not enter , the guard replied , ‘ Oh , you can by dropping something in the box ’ . |
| 9 | In deciding where we should go we have to transfer ‘ ownership ’ of the direction by involving everyone in the decision . |
| 10 | Start by standing one behind the other to form a straight line . |
| 11 | Only by supplying something outside the poem — claims for intention , the ostensible participation of the language in recognisable ( and thus containable ) poetic conventions , the equation of Astrophil with Sidney and his love with Penelope Rich ( the sequence 's Stella ) and then a testing of the language 's claim against their history — could the referential quality of the poem 's language be critically maintained . |