Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another company , Gold Peak Industries ( Holdings ) , which makes car audio equipment , is also trying to hedge future risks by setting up new factories elsewhere . |
| 2 | ENGLAND are saving manager Graham Taylor from the angry fans by playing away next month . |
| 3 | Although the proprietors and staff of EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS take reasonable precautions to protect the interests of readers by ensuring as far as practicable that advertisements are bona fide , the magazine and its Publishers can not give any undertakings in respect of statements or claims made by advertisers , whether these advertisements are printed as part of the magazine , or are in the form of inserts . |
| 4 | Although the proprietors and staff of EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS take reasonable precautions to protect the interests of readers by ensuring as far as practicable that advertisements are bona fide , the magazine and its Publishers can not give any undertakings in respect of statements or claims made by advertisers , whether these advertisements are printed as part of the magazine , or are in the form of inserts . |
| 5 | Big stars often indulge their whims by splashing out on things like yachts , private zoos and personal helicopters . |
| 6 | When you put the board in the water to launch , punch the board through any advancing waves by pushing hard forwards on the rig with one or both hands on the mast . |
| 7 | Do n't strain your eyes by putting up with poor lighting . |
| 8 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |
| 9 | Initially , an attempt was made to fill the labour shortages by allowing over 100,000 Poles to stay on in Britain and by encouraging immigration from other European countries , but soon it was felt necessary to look to other sources of cheap labour , and immigration from the Caribbean and the Indian sub-continent was encouraged . |
| 10 | The pretenders became genuine contenders by showing how much they have grown up as a team . |
| 11 | Courts and tribunals became concerned with restoring co-operation among disputing parties by seeking out the sources of disputes , and by revealing truth rather than identifying the stronger case . |
| 12 | Despite the comprehensiveness and relative complexity of Porter 's analysis , he concludes that , once one has arrived at an assessment of one 's competitive strengths by considering how strong an SBU is in terms of the factors in figure 4.5 which are most important for the relevant industry , there are only three generic strategies open to any SBU to become more competitive . |
| 13 | If the Net Present Value is positive , this shows that an enterprise borrowing funds at the given interest rate would make a profit after meeting interest payments , or alternatively that an enterprise possessing surplus money capital would make a better return on the funds by carrying out the investment project rather than lending the funds at interest . |
| 14 | Governments with limited resources seeking to lower mortality and to decrease population growth will be more likely to achieve these objectives by concentrating on family planning programmes than by insisting on the primacy of health care services — and they will not be sacrificing humanitarian goals by doing so . " |
| 15 | Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions . |
| 16 | The Roman appetite for pearls was such that they supplemented imported marine pearls by seeking out those from the freshwater mussels which grew in the rivers of their temperate provinces , despite their relative dullness and lack of lustre . |
| 17 | The hunger strike sparked off divisions between those Länder ruled by the SPD and those ruled by the CDU or CSU , since the former were prepared to make some limited concessions by allowing very small groups of RAF prisoners to have contact with each other . |
| 18 | If the costs of an activity exceed the benefits , he will maximize his total satisfactions by choosing not to engage in it . |
| 19 | The child paid for things in shops by giving always a large coin , or a note . |
| 20 | They will encounter and come to understand a wide range of feelings and relationships by entering vicariously the worlds of others , and in consequence are likely to understand more of themselves . |
| 21 | Collect the words by writing down the misspelled form , not the correct form . |
| 22 | for Linlithgowshire and younger brother to the Earl of Hopetoun , made his attack : Crump surrendered instantly , taking up Hope 's opening words by explaining how he had met Mr Newton , or was it Wilson ? — the honourable gentleman 's Factor in Preston , was it , my dear ? |
| 23 | This mutation takes two forms , which have little or nothing in common except the need or desire to control state policy : national separatism and national xenophobia , which means being against foreigners by setting up ‘ our ’ own state , and being against them by excluding them from ‘ our ’ already existing state . |
| 24 | Equity markets recoiled from these gloomy indicators by falling sharply at the beginning of the week , pausing only for the Chancellor 's speech at the Tory Party conference , but still failing to recover lost ground by the close . |
| 25 | Relieved of the weight , she eased the tight muscles in her shoulders by stretching luxuriously . |
| 26 | They highlight the importance of the marketed sectors by pointing out that ‘ the marketed output of industry and services taken together must supply the total private consumption , investment and export needs of the whole nation . ’ |
| 27 | Do not alarm walkers by coming up silently behind them . |
| 28 | Do not alarm walkers by coming up silently behind them — always use a bell or a hooter . |
| 29 | The country 's biggest oil refinery , Ahmadi , which resumed operations on Aug. 27 , was expected to meet domestic demands by processing up to 130,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) of crude oil . |
| 30 | Some pessimists have calculated that enormous exercise workouts would be needed in order to achieve even modest weight loss , but it is now recognized that exercise does effectively help to burn up calories by speeding up the body 's metabolic rate for some time afterwards . |