Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year , Lois even outdid Ken Dodd and Freddie Starr by winning the comedy section of the annual Whitbread Scouseology Awards , which are sponsored by the Echo . |
| 2 | Home James BOXING : James Toney retained his IBF middleweight crown in Las Vegas on Saturday by winning a 12round unanimous decision over fellow American Glenn Wolfe . |
| 3 | Harvest the seeds in July-August by cutting the seedheads just before the first seeds start to fall , and hanging them over a tray in a dry airy place . |
| 4 | In June 1926 the Balliol Players , a group of Oxford undergraduates , delighted Hardy by performing a Greek play in the garden . |
| 5 | England drew level with Pakistan by winning the Headingley Test match in four days . |
| 6 | A DUBLIN building society has invested confidence in the national soccer team reaching next year 's World Cup finals in the United States by launching a special account for fans to save for the air fare . |
| 7 | Palace shocked Arsenal by taking a ninth-minute lead through Coleman , but Wright set up Merson 's first two minutes later with nice work on the right and Arsenal 's third for Campbell , a left-foot volley , in the 16th minute . |
| 8 | Officers of merchant ships were particularly vulnerable if they did not have in their possession a written protection from impressment issued by the Admiralty , and David Scott was enabled to oblige both Provost Watt of Forfar and several influential merchants of Dundee by securing the freedom of Peter Brown , the mate of the ship John and Nancy of Dundee , though in this case the Dundee magistrates had to provide an able seaman as a replacement for Brown before he was freed from the pressing tender . |
| 9 | Light Railway & Tramway Journal says the following : ‘ The S.M.E.T. made a new departure on Tuesday by inaugurating a Tramway Parcels Express , in connection with the service of cars between Tooting and Penge , Croydon and Wallington , Carshalton , Sutton and Mitcham . |
| 10 | Yet 24 hours later this same Ian Woosnam , who a year ago followed in the footsteps of Sandy Lyle and Nick Faldo by winning the Masters at Augusta National , was threatening to do so again , until the thunder and lightning affected his revival early in the third round . |
| 11 | The USA responded to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait by mobilizing the largest demonstration of US overseas military power since the Vietnam war . |
| 12 | Matthias ' aim , apart from regulating the internal affairs of Hungary by subduing the powers of chronically feuding magnates , was to create a Danubian empire strong enough to withstand the Turkish assault . |
| 13 | The C-terminal cytosolic portion of the human histamine H 2 receptor exhibits several sites at which serines are flanked by basic residues and could therefore be a substrate for protein kinase C. It has also bee suggested that protein kinase C uncouples a receptor for glucagon-29 from Gs by phosphorylating the receptor . |
| 14 | Finally he managed to overcome the Hydra by cauterising the necks after each decapitation , and burying the heads beneath a rock . |
| 15 | Armenian efforts were then directed towards an attack on the city of Lachin — situated outside Karabakh to the south-west — in an attempt to capitalize on their victory against Shusha by breaking a corridor through Azerbaijani territory to connect Nagorny Karabakh with Armenia proper . |
| 16 | By widening the bridge under the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway and providing a new road alongside the Bypass connecting the severed Baberton Mains Terrace as directly as possible with Westburn Avenue by joining the line of the existing Baberton Mains Farm Access and crossing over the Bypass by means of a new road bridge as before . |
| 17 | Access via a new railway underbridge some 300 metres to the west of the Bypass/Railway crossing with a new road provided to connect the estate roads with Westburn Avenue by following the line of the existing Baberton Mains Farm Access road and crossing over the Bypass by means of a new road bridge . |
| 18 | Similarly , the work of Melanie Klein can be seen to have built upon Freud by retaining the death instincts in the area of the theory of personality development and psychoanalytic therapy . |
| 19 | And the Liverpool Harriers athlete hit back at criticism from Dick , who claimed he had ‘ shown no respect ’ for his opposition in last weekend 's British final at Crystal Palace by using the competition as a training session . |
| 20 | However , you decide that it might be helpful to ‘ warm up ’ to Le Carré by translating a few extracts to get the hang of his unusual style . |
| 21 | Coca-Cola has also decided to ‘ compete ’ with UNESCO by giving the Hermitage $320,000 ( for years Pepsi-Cola had the monopoly of the Soviet market ) . |
| 22 | Newmarket challengers Alinova and Al Shaati can send punters away happy at Beverley by taking the last two races . |
| 23 | Newmarket challengers Moscow Sea and Al Shaati can send punters away happy at Beverley by taking the last two races . |
| 24 | My congratulations , by the way , to the public spirited Bristol climber who tested the number one wire placement on Hellbound by taking a 60 foot lob onto it while attempting a second ascent ! |
| 25 | He has been able to formulate a general model which encompasses existing models and enables tests to be made of the robustness of the results reported in The Population History of England by varying the projection parameters . |
| 26 | Yet most Tories were as concerned as Whigs to protect the Protestant succession , and virtually all supported the Act of Settlement of 1701 , which guaranteed the security of the Protestant monarchy in England by passing the descent of the Crown to the House of Hanover after the deaths of William and Anne . |
| 27 | Option II presented on page 20 of the Policy Issues Paper , on which draft MPG6 is based , seeks to reduce the proportion of aggregates required from land won supplies in Wales and England by encouraging a dramatic growth in new supplies from coastal super quarries . |
| 28 | Option II presented on page 20 of the Policy Issues Paper , on which draft MPG6 is based , seeks to reduce the proportion of aggregates required from land won supplies in Wales and England by encouraging a dramatic growth in new supplies from coastal super quarries . |
| 29 | TELEVISION personality Jonathan Dimbleby marked taking over the presidency of the Council for the Protection of Rural England by launching a £500,000 appeal to fund ‘ the battle to protect the English countryside . ’ |
| 30 | However he also reveals his own cunning ( very much like Claudius ' ) when on the ship to England by changing the letters of instruction and having them killed : a punishment for those who tried to deceive him and a warning to Claudius . |