Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great writer can have , at a particular time , a pernicious or merely deadening influence ; and this influence can be most effectively attacked by pointing out those faults which ought not to be copied , and those virtues any emulation of which is anachronistic . |
| 2 | They can be installed by taking out one layer of bricks ( so you 'll have to cut through a wall — make sure it 's suitable ! ) ; or they can be installed in a corner , or in an alcove , with a surrounded flat fascia , in which case you 'll need to build a timber framework to support the niche and hold the fascia . |
| 3 | English Nature have responded by drawing up a lowland peatland policy , which includes commitments : , to oppose new planning applications for peat extraction on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) ; , to seek protection for SSSI sites which already have planning permission — by purchasing or leasing the site , providing grant aid for conservation management , or liaising with extractors to minimize damage ; , to support the development of alternatives to peat . |
| 4 | Almost immediately , the birds in the angsana responded by flying out in a flock , showing what I took to be anxiety by sinking to the ground and then rapidly rising again . |
| 5 | Normally Artemis would have responded by kicking on and flying the raspers behind the leading group , for to her way of thinking there was no feeling like it in the world . |
| 6 | The Government had responded by setting up an interdepartmental committee under the chairmanship of Lord Justice James to review the distribution of criminal business between the Crown Court and the Magistrates ' courts . |
| 7 | The Confederation of British Industry responded by setting up its own task force , made up of leading industrialists . |
| 8 | Henry Skelton 's college responded by setting up a drugs working party involving students . |
| 9 | One city has responded by setting up a twenty-four hour response team to help people whose lives are being ruined by noisy neighbours . |
| 10 | The DPP responded by calling off plans to surround the building where the National Assembly was to meet for the election . |
| 11 | The children responded by making up their own problems for each other . |
| 12 | The government responded by carrying out mass arrests of pro-democracy activists , and by the end of February violent confrontations were taking place between demonstrators and the security forces . |
| 13 | The males responded by puffing up their chests and circling slowly towards each other . |
| 14 | The travellers were then carried in a northerly direction and with Spalding now on their right and Bourne to the left , the craft was stabilized by throwing out all the remaining ballast . |
| 15 | Cooking can be solved by eating out , raiding the chill cabinets or phoning for a pizza . |
| 16 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |
| 17 | This was solved by setting up the first stall run by the eldest most respected woman in the village . |
| 18 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 19 | But the problem of draughts can be simply and effectively solved by filling in any gaps around windows , doors or skirting boards with draughtproofing materials . |
| 20 | This tension is resolved by coming back from the brink of the recognition of the politics of divide and rule in society in general and instead binding the issue to the micro-politics of individualised self-interest . |
| 21 | Under the new act these problems were to be addressed by setting up coordinating budget committees in the House and the Senate , drawing up a realistic timetable for dealing with the budget and establishing a Congressional Budget Office that would provide the staff and expertise necessary for dealing with the budget responsibly . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ This they have done by drawing up a ‘ list ’ of recommended books for children of different ages which are , almost without exception , not one but two generations old . |
| 24 | This would be done by bringing in metal tanks , flooding them and adding filtration and ventilation . |
| 25 | This was done by bringing in large quantities of fill . |
| 26 | Finding out the answers to these questions is best done by going out and talking to parents and others . |
| 27 | The castle 's stunted squad of masons and builders were still working to repair the damage the old man had done by tearing down walls in his attempt to prove these hidden glyphs were isolated aberrations , not — as they indeed were — ubiquitous . |
| 28 | This is easily done by working down the tree . |
| 29 | ‘ Modest good may be done by signing on ; much damage would be done if we do not , ’ he argues . |
| 30 | However , if the tooth is knocked out completely , little additional damage can be done by fighting on . |