Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the second edition , which I am sure will follow , it would be improved by devoting less space to tables of registration letters and better proof-reading ( Prof. Ing . |
| 2 | Novato , California-based WordStar International Inc is plunging into the Macintosh word processing market by acquiring all rights to WriteNow from T/Maker Co in return for undisclosed cash and royalties ; development of the $250 WriteNow will stay at T/Maker in Mountain View , California under WordStar . |
| 3 | Moreover , by relating this information to data on spreading rates , the directions of relative plate motions derived from the analysis of earthquakes , and palaeomagnetic evidence of continental palaeolatitudes , it has been possible to establish the direction and speed of present-day plate motions and what is probably a fairly accurate history of movements over the past 200 Ma or so ( Fig. 2.16 ) . |
| 4 | Sartre founds communist action precisely by refusing any productivity to history and by making history , insofar as it is intelligible , the immediate result of our volitions . |
| 5 | The two firms which control PC technology , Microsoft and Intel , have grown rich by selling this technology to all-comers ( in Microsoft 's case , fabulously rich , see pages 25–27 ) . |
| 6 | This empirical work is intended to remove the above weaknesses in previous work , by including political and social variables , by distinguishing several alternatives to debt-rescheduling , and by testing these models for different sets of countries and time-periods . |
| 7 | It follows that the courts can contribute to the prison numbers crisis either by sending more people to prison than they need to , or by sending them there for longer than is necessary . |
| 8 | The resulting program is then just unc where P* is the program obtained from P " by deleting all assignments to y . |
| 9 | Kenneth Baker , the Secretary of State for Education , met with opposition to his proposals to weaken the structure of state education , notably by allowing comprehensive schools to opt out of the secondary system , and by giving more powers to parents in running schools , a latent veto for the middle-class . |
| 10 | I had hoped that Scottish mountaineers , so proud of their heritage , would say , ‘ To hell with metres ’ , and remain loyal to the altitudes listed by Munro , but I now find , to my dismay , that the Scottish Mountaineering Club , the publishers of the Tables , in their most recent edition , have also succumbed to Europe and sacrificed a cherished independence by converting all heights to metres . |
| 11 | Sberbank makes a handsome spread by lending these deposits to banks which lack a deposit base , charging an annualised rate of 160–200% for a three-month loan . |
| 12 | ‘ YOU 'LL be doing , not one good turn , but two , by taking these things to Granny Fordham 's , Mary , ’ said Mrs. Grant , the farmer 's wife . |