Example sentences of "[adj] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide ! |
| 2 | Dependency increases where care is poor , and homes taking in low dependency clients can soon make them more dependent by providing too few activities and too many sedatives . |
| 3 | With equal determination , Annie was making it clear by chatting away happily to Ibn Fayoud and his schoolgirl friend that it would be rude to leave before the dancing had been under way for half an hour or so . |
| 4 | He did n't believe her , as he made abundantly clear by looking contemptuously down his straight nose at her . |
| 5 | Perhaps I can make this clear by distinguishing tentatively between the notion of prestige and the notion of standard language . |
| 6 | The 1925 Protocol itself makes this clear by referring explicitly to ‘ other ’ gases . |
| 7 | Likewise , at the time when armies and their accompanying equipment were being shipped over to France , efforts were made ( as they were by Henry V in 1417 ) to keep the sea-lanes lanes clear by sending out other ships on patrol , thereby ensuring a minimum of safety for those going to fight abroad . |
| 8 | As the organiser you can have your own holiday free by getting together friends or family in a group as small as 15 full fare passengers only . |
| 9 | If they know they 're being watched , they try to get clever by splitting up . |
| 10 | As a coach to both a colts XV and a senior team I have seen the game my charges play become more free flowing by doing away with the juggernaut mentality . |
| 11 | Indeed , the money market shortages created by greater reliance on sales of gilts were initially relieved by buying back Treasury bills from the market . |
| 12 | Solve the following by setting out your work as shown above . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a bloke here , junior minister of something or other , urging old people to cut fuel costs and keep warm by dressing up in newspapers . ’ |
| 14 | An official teachers ' guide may recommend project work and locally based enquiry , whereas the official timetable renders such initiatives impossible by dividing up the day into small fragments . |
| 15 | The very year when Mary offered her kingdom to France saw the death of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V , that colossal and most admired figure of the sixteenth century , who had achieved the impossible by holding together an inheritance which sprawled across Europe . |
| 16 | Carry out deadheading often , combining with light pruning where appropriate by cutting back to a strong bud well down the stem . |
| 17 | Cut down on feeding ( once a month is plenty ) and watering , but keep the atmosphere round the plants slightly humid by misting over leaves , or standing pots on a layer of damp pebbles . |
| 18 | During the eight years of war against Iran , President Hussein made his power absolute by clamping tight personal control on the army , the Baath party and the ubiquitous mukhabarat , the secret police . |
| 19 | ‘ If I make you nervous by standing here , please say so . ’ |
| 20 | He kept walking ; there was little point in making them suspicious by turning round and retracing his steps . |
| 21 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 22 | This is usually because it is felt that they can not cope with anything at a higher level or with more demanding work — they ‘ can not concentrate ’ , ‘ can not transfer knowledge from one situation to another ’ , ‘ can not remember from one day to the next ’ , ‘ can not cope with sequential tasks ’ , ‘ get confused by experiencing more than one way of doing something ’ , and most definitely ‘ can not do fractions ’ . |
| 23 | To cope with the aftershock , Mr Perez has made himself unpopular by bringing in painful economic reforms . |
| 24 | Andrew is used to being the centre of attention , especially after last summer when he did the unthinkable by stepping down as captain of Camborne to join Redruth , their neighbours and rivals — Cornish rugby 's equivalent of a footballer leaving Manchester United for City . |
| 25 | Andrew Thomas , who has now replaced Phllips as Neath 's first-choice hooker , supplemented his work in the tight by galloping over for two tries . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , one does not have to be a hedonist to agree that a person is somehow impoverished by living too much for the future or for other people , and ‘ Be aware ’ can show us why . |
| 27 | If , by a stroke of luck , the knife is dropped , do n't make yourself vulnerable by bending down to pick it up ; jump in and kick it out of reach . |
| 28 | ‘ But , until we do , you can make yourself useful by binding up this hole in my arm before I give you the pleasure of bleeding to death . ’ |
| 29 | Leaders of the COS argued that many charities were encouraging the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor by handing out benefits in cash and kind too readily and with no attempt to ensure long-term improvement in the client 's condition . |
| 30 | He made his design choreographically viable by distinguishing clearly between the two styles he was using . |