Example sentences of "by [v-ing] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By accepting an innate predilection to sociality and a fluid range of capacities and constraints , we can focus on indigenous conceptions concerning human nature and human inner states , while avoiding the particularistic errors of cultural relativism . |
| 2 | You can save time and effort by using a British agent to book for you . |
| 3 | The overall statistical significance of multicategorical variables was determined by applying a chi-squared test to the change in log likelihood ratios after withdrawal of all categories of the variable from the saturated model . |
| 4 | Jomeo is endearingly accident-prone and forever unsuccessful with females ; Gigi , by contrast , is wildly popular with the opposite sex and has made up for her childlessness by becoming a universal aunt to other females ' babies . |
| 5 | Such wide disparities in the social marginal cost of life-saving suggest that society might achieve significant gains in allocative efficiency by adopting an integrated approach to a cost-benefit analysis of health and safety regulations . |
| 6 | JOHN MORRIS , Derbyshire 's 28-year-old vice-captain , has ended speculation about his cricketing future by signing a two-year extension to his contract which will keep him at the Recreation Ground until 1996 . |
| 7 | Aware that he might have only one chance , and uncertain whether his support was sufficiently strong to withstand accusations of breaking his word and of disloyalty , he kept his options open by writing a public letter to his constituency party association ( a traditional device for signalling dissent ) in which he was highly critical of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership style and her stance on Europe . |
| 8 | He then incurred the wrath of his senior officers by writing a rude letter to the Governor , telling him that he had no right to interfere in a dispute between gentlemen . |
| 9 | Hartlepool MP Ted Leadbitter has responded to an attack on Hartlepool 's image in America 's leader business newspaper The Wall Street Journal by writing an angry letter to its editor . |
| 10 | By according a special priority to the practice of science , the relationist and perspectival impact of the sociology of knowledge was made redundant . |
| 11 | This philosophy is built into the common core by assigning a key task to the in-bureau tutor that each bureau is obliged to appoint either from among its paid or voluntary staff . |
| 12 | Though we have no contemporary report from Aquitaine , tenth- and eleventh-century writers there complement the Italians ' information by assigning a key role to " the men of Aquitaine " on Charles 's side , with two Aquitanian counts named as among the slain . |
| 13 | In fact this is the whole point of introducing D. By assigning a relative permittivity to a dielectric material all these problems have been taken care of . |
| 14 | Try to limit the target area by presenting a small profile to the attacker ( stand sideways ) . |
| 15 | In social housing we are working alongside our colleagues in Wimpey Homes and , by presenting a combined capability to the marketplace , we believe that 1993 will see us both reinforce Wimpey 's position as market leader in the provision of social housing in the United Kingdom . |
| 16 | Registration is easily achieved by presenting a Medical Card to the doctor of your choice or to the University Medical Officer . |
| 17 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |
| 18 | He made no comment on the ‘ workstart pilots ’ scheme under which four schemes in different parts of the country will test how effective it is to encourage the recruitment of long-term unemployed people by paying a temporary subsidy to employees . |
| 19 | Israel in fact obtained de facto recognition from Iran by paying a substantial bribe to the then Iranian prime minister , Muhammad Saed . |
| 20 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 21 | The referee was a complete twat Roger Dilkes , a miserable midget who contrived to spoil what was already a poor game by turning a blind eye to West Ham 's negative game and penalising Leeds wherever possible . |
| 22 | It aims to establish principles and practices which underpin each of the succeeding chapters by considering a rational approach to assessing the information processes and needs of each management activity . |
| 23 | The project will collect the information necessary for investigating the above areas by sending a postal questionnaire to all students who first received higher education grants in 1979 and in 1985 . |
| 24 | S 212 gives a public company the power to investigate the ownership of its shares by sending a written notice to any person or company which it believes has had an interest in its share capital over the previous three years . |
| 25 | These were allayed by sending a formal letter to all teachers in the sample stating categorically that no information from which it would be possible to identify individuals would be published . |
| 26 | Full details are available by sending a large SAE to : Polaris International , MTB Challenge , 87 Hollin Springs Avenue , Dronfield , Sheffield S18 6RP . |
| 27 | The Palestinians signalled their frustration by sending a reduced delegation to Washington . |
| 28 | They can be used with a problem-solving element to develop a knowledge of semantic meaning as signalled by lexis and syntax within sentences and can be used in support of tasks which focus on pragmatic meaning by providing a consciousness-raising extension to communication-oriented activities . |
| 29 | We begin this section by providing a brief introduction to its calculation in the private sector , as this complements our discussion in the previous section and is a useful preface to considering what is an appropriate rate for public sector investment opportunities . |
| 30 | We do this by having a structured programme to our day which , hopefully introduces leaning to each individual 's life and encourages their participation in the daily tasks within the home . |