Example sentences of "[adj] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will try to illustrate this by discussing how animals find their way about . |
| 2 | TNCs tend to get round this by buying up or establishing their own local suppliers ( see Bennett and Sharp , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | He justifies this by proving mathematically that , except in highly abnormal viewing conditions , three views of a rigid object can uniquely determine its shape and motion . |
| 4 | You 'll have to empty the toilet bowl first : you can do this by bailing out the water by hand , or tying up the ballcock and flushing the loo . |
| 5 | She also wanted her own business , and during her years in the trade prepared herself for this by learning as much as she could about bookshop buying , repping and wholesaling , financial administration , rights and coeditions , export sales , publicity , and paid-for promotion . |
| 6 | Anything which attempts to reverse this by bringing in unfamiliar work from the past which students have a positive motive for wanting to read must be a good thing , and strikes a blow against cultural amnesia . |
| 7 | Some do this by combining both tune and rhythm to nonsense syllables like " la la la " or " dah dee dah " . |
| 8 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 9 | He does this by moving away from the shoal of fry and then thrashing about in the water as if injured . |
| 10 | Section 27(2) ( b ) goes further than this by negating absolutely any governing law clause imposing a foreign proper law where the contract was concluded in the UK by a consumer then habitually resident in the UK . |
| 11 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 12 | We can do this by setting up a role play . |
| 13 | You can do this by eating well , getting enough rest and relaxing . |
| 14 | She justifies this by pointing out that there are three thousand young women working in town centres around the country , whose welfare is paramount to her . |
| 15 | She explains this by pointing out that young Clonard men have been hard hit by unemployment , and this has weakened their networks . |
| 16 | Sharman counters this by pointing out that conventional syntactic grammars do not take semantic information into account either . |
| 17 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |
| 18 | I had an idea that I should make a show of dignity and tried to do this by looking straight ahead , as if the crowds moving up and down the platform were beneath my notice . |
| 19 | The bridge plate should only need replacing if it is split or lifting away from beneath the table ; check for this by looking inside with a torch and a small mirror . |
| 20 | However , while the journalist , or the politician for that matter , tends only to select things which are in accord with some preconceived view or set of values , sociologists try to go beyond this by using clearly defined theoretical concepts , representative samples and writing research reports in such a way that they can be examined , tested and , perhaps , modified by others . |
| 21 | It can do this by using specifically attention-getting devices — enormous headlines in the press , rolls of drums , whistles or other unusual sounds on TV or radio , flashing lights on TV or cinema — but these are likely to be artificially imposed in the context of an ad . |
| 22 | Mark usually achieved this by thinking out an arresting beginning , nearly always of the same type , asking his congregation to imagine themselves standing gazing at the Pyramids or the Acropolis or even the New York skyline , hardly realising , until Sophia pointed it out to him , that these sights would be unfamiliar to the majority of his hearers . |
| 23 | The 1944 Education Act provided for this by drawing up what is called the dual system of county schools ( ie non-denominational ) and Aided Schools whether Catholic or Church of England where a denominational education and environment would be provided . |
| 24 | Even more unfortunately many professionals seems to encourage this by taking on ‘ ownership ’ of the children 's problems in the cases they deal with . |
| 25 | The physicists in the team got round this by taking rapidly alternating snapshots of the area in red and green light . |
| 26 | As sure as Concorde 's nose is pointed , the partners ' governments will have to subsidise this by coughing up so-called ‘ launch aid ’ . |
| 27 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 28 | You can prove this by going back to the start of the paragraph and pressing the Backspace key . |
| 29 | Airtours 's progress reflected this by notching up its sixth successive year of profits . |
| 30 | The Clio 's chassis engineers were able to achieve this by studying not only the design of the suspension , but also the way in which the suspension interacts with the entire body/chassis unit . |