Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ? |
| 2 | Let me qualify that by saying … some Irishmen . |
| 3 | I welcome the positive approach — perhaps I should qualify that by saying ’ part positive ’ — adopted by the hon. Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) towards the Committee stage . |
| 4 | This means that he did not consider that by taking the brahmacārya vow he was necessarily withdrawing from the life of society , which was one reason why he resented being called an ascetic . |
| 5 | And do n't think that by developing the second half of your brain you will merely be doubling your mental capacity . |
| 6 | So , do you think that by making divorce possible so early on , that a lot of marriages that could be saved , will in fact er founder ? |
| 7 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 8 | By requiring the investor to buy a proportion of debt in the geared company we can write , therefore , if this is true for a proportion , we can show that by dividing both sides of Eq . |
| 9 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 10 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 11 | Might sound a bit complicated , but if we take it slowly , all will be revealed , and you will see that by using this method , every guest has an equal share of fishing opportunities . |
| 12 | You can see that by adding more detail to the eyes , feet and feathers as well as shading you can carry this as far as you wish to go ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 13 | Trainees will see that by tackling the practical presenting problem with too much alacrity they may superimpose their interpretation of Sally 's problems before confirming them with Sally . |
| 14 | I did n't realize that by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap . ’ |
| 15 | I 'll , I can endorse that by saying that we should n't , as I noticed a certain offhandedness with him that I did n't like at all . |
| 16 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |
| 17 | This is in contrast to the relatively high esteem in which data and information management is currently held , and if we are optimistic we might hope that by associating work on computer systems with the control of paper , we might raise the DROs ’ prestige within government . |
| 18 | So we would hope that by releasing that article fourteen direction at that stage , all we would really be doing is making it possible for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetus from real life applications within the general locations specified in the structure plan . |
| 19 | We would hope that by doing this we 'd actually mobilize the whole country to get down into London and to protest at the House of Commons against the closures in the Health Service . |
| 20 | Yet how does God react but by making the desert alive with poisonous snakes ! |
| 21 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 22 | If the work now arrives in time then this could mean that by changing the trigger you have altered the behaviour . |
| 23 | Is he referring to the deportations , or does he mean that by making life so miserable in the refugee camps people will leave voluntarily ? |
| 24 | And then again , ignorance er , at what she should subsequently have done er , then took over because she did n't realise that by having had er made contact with an individual erm it was necessary for her to report the matter to the police and she just did n't realise that that was something that she should have done . |
| 25 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |
| 26 | And although many architects still find it hard to say Charles 's name without curling their lips , most of them do admit that by bringing the whole subject into the public domain , architecture has had a much-needed shot in the arm . |
| 27 | By reducing the probability that a firm will fail and by reducing creditors ' potential losses in the event of difficulty , this helps to reduce the costs a firm takes on as it takes bigger risks and nears bankruptcy . |
| 28 | We hope that as your Medau News — with its views , information and diary of events — comes through your letter box this September , you will agree that by receiving it by direct mail is a better system than sharing a few copies round from class member to class member . |
| 29 | It is on the face of it a very simple amendment to a quite a small and in some sense insignificant piece of legislation that is n't , erm I hope members would agree that by changing that piece of legislation to say that if you 're a trader you must display who you are and how people can get hold of you if the have a problem about products they buy from you , will not be too burdensome erm in these days of deregulation and so forth but on the other hand would help enforcements considerably and would also enable people to pursue their own remedies where they are dissatisfied with what they bought . |
| 30 | er , given the amount of poverty and misery that there is in this country , can we really justify , or can we really say that by paying Prince Andrew a hundred thousand pounds a year we 're being cost effective ? |