Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity to retrieve herself by usefulness came to Nicandra almost immediately — Lalage was back with them , downcast , apologetic . |
| 2 | However , even if it is a small field , all they have really learned is to position themselves by habit , using the local landmarks to help . |
| 3 | Philip got his revenge when his army beat an Athenian-led alliance at the battle of Chaironea in 338BC , thereby putting Greece under his control and , a little later , causing Demosthenes to kill himself by poison . |
| 4 | how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 5 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 6 | The artist has little hope of influencing the world if he does not begin to reform himself by questing for a new vision of the experience of living , a vision which leads us to share , question , respect . |
| 7 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 8 | The MPIs too could benefit from closer contacts with universities : older members who have passed their first flush of creativity would have the opportunity to refresh themselves by teaching , at the same time attracting new young people . |
| 9 | This led Asquith to fix a pensionable age of seventy , despite the mass of evidence that must people who survived to old age ceased to be able to support themselves by work in their mid-sixties — sixty-five was the age adopted by most occupational and charitable pension schemes . |
| 10 | In 1989 the Supreme Court had assisted employers to defend themselves by ruling that it was up to the worker to prove that such practices did not constitute a " business necessity " . |
| 11 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
| 12 | The root form has the ability to reproduce itself by parthenogenesis several times throughout the year for a few years without passing into another form . |
| 13 | " Yes , " said Miranda , trying to comfort herself by thinking of other young men . |
| 14 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 15 | So all the fish that use this system , whether in the rivers of West Africa or in South America , keep their bodies as stiff as ramrods and have to propel themselves by undulation of their fins . |