Example sentences of "[det] by [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNCs tend to get round this by buying up or establishing their own local suppliers ( see Bennett and Sharp , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We can do this by setting up a role play . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She explains this by pointing out that young Clonard men have been hard hit by unemployment , and this has weakened their networks . |
| 9 | Sharman counters this by pointing out that conventional syntactic grammars do not take semantic information into account either . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even more unfortunately many professionals seems to encourage this by taking on ‘ ownership ’ of the children 's problems in the cases they deal with . |
| 14 | As sure as Concorde 's nose is pointed , the partners ' governments will have to subsidise this by coughing up so-called ‘ launch aid ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You can prove this by going back to the start of the paragraph and pressing the Backspace key . |
| 17 | Airtours 's progress reflected this by notching up its sixth successive year of profits . |
| 18 | The argument is that if firms find that they are producing more than is being demanded , they will observe an involuntary increase in their inventories of unsold goods and so will rectify this by cutting back on production and laying off workers . |
| 19 | They often do this by letting out or bringing in their mooring line , so keep an eye on them to see which direction they move it in , if at all . |
| 20 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 21 | Do this by tying up the ball valve ( so the kitchen tap still operates ) and opening the cold taps even if it is a hot tap which is being rewashered . |
| 22 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |
| 23 | All by taking off a little overpaint . |
| 24 | Hick fittingly ended it all by racing in to run out Aqib , to leave Malik forlorn and a class apart , 84 not out , having steered his side to a lead of 98 , 50-odd short of what Waqar said last evening would be enough for Pakistan to defend successfully . |
| 25 | You make yourself cough more by lying down there . |
| 26 | Project English encourages learning through project work : as the pupils work through the projects in the Student 's Book , they gradually build up similar projects of their own by carrying out a number of project tasks . |
| 27 | She was n't used to inactivity , and Deveraugh had n't helped any by hanging around . |
| 28 | In fact the latest development is that they do n't even do that by picking up a telephone , the message is teleprinted on , onto a message pad there , and when they run in they pull off this pad , and there 's the whole text for what they 've got to do , where they 've got to go , and so on . |
| 29 | You ca n't win that by filling in a football coupon . |
| 30 | That by easing off , holding back , you could teach them a valuable lesson and they they 'd sit there And you 've seen them sometimes , when they come alongside you and they 're forced and th they do n't what to and they look up and go . |