Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ski free in France : eat and sleep rurally and ski touristically by driving to the resort each day . |
| 2 | I would like you to get to know your body better by looking in the mirror and seeing the improvements in your shape as each day goes by . |
| 3 | Get to know Steffi , or Stefan , Gabriela , or Boris , Andre , or Arantxa a little better by subscribing to a Tennis World fan club service for one year — you know it makes sense … |
| 4 | My friends liked the idea of letting their feet come round naturally by unwinding into the turn and will try that to help their parallels this winter . |
| 5 | This is just next door to his old address at No 76 , where he managed to evade a High Court Deputy Tipstaff last week after a tip-off from the landlord , apparently by climbing through a back window and shinning down a drainpipe . |
| 6 | Apart from their ‘ vertical ’ obligations individuals were tied together by belonging to the same group . |
| 7 | The family kept together by focusing on the daily difficulties of life with the grandmother . |
| 8 | Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law . |
| 9 | Despite all the homilies from the PGA that professional golfers must help the sponsor in every way possible , especially by cooperating with the media and especially with television , Jack had been known to stride straight past a TV interviewer without a word . |
| 10 | As with classroom practice , it can learn much by attending to the best of what is taking place in its schools . |
| 11 | ‘ Let us all down by looking like the poor relation ? ’ |
| 12 | Skilled negotiators avoid using irritators such as these and keep the emotional temperature down by sticking to the facts . |
| 13 | Do you slow other people down by driving in the rush hour ? |
| 14 | She brought a window down by pressing on a button . |
| 15 | This was then immediately scrubbed onto a piece of scrap paper until the charge of paint began to run out ; at that point a thin scumble was quickly put down by stabbing with the brush tip onto the background colouring . |
| 16 | To save the shot , you can then do one of two things : reframe the shot to exclude the sky , perhaps by moving to an angle where the sky is obscured by a building ; or , correct for the backlight either by pressing the backlight button or by making a manual adjustment to the iris ( depending on which facility is provided on your machine ) . |
| 17 | This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) . |
| 18 | Perhaps by joining in the public disapproval of surrogacy , and seemingly sharing the moral universe of ‘ Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells ’ , the Committee may have increased their sphere of influence . |
| 19 | It can not be said , merely by looking at the allegations in the statement of claim , which is all that is permissible under the terms of the preliminary point of law , that the council could not have considered the action expedient for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of Derbyshire . |
| 20 | The Beagle was on the point of leaving when he found out that the natives could tell which island a tortoise came from merely by looking at the shape of its shell . |
| 21 | His words suggest that Twain 's book brought back Eliot 's childhood not merely by functioning as an aide-mémoire . |
| 22 | Many areas that appear to be hazard-free on current maps may merely by passing through a temporary period of quiescence . |
| 23 | Broad political support will not , of course , be won merely by appealing to the inherent rationality of planning as opposed to the profit-oriented allocation of resources . |
| 24 | Even if your company 's main task is , for example , to carry on business in the chemical industry , this can probably be changed , if you wish to , merely by going to the annual general meeting . |
| 25 | An investigation of nursery school children demonstrated that their teachers were able to halve the frequency of fights and quarrels merely by attending to the children when they were playing peacefully , and offering comments such as ‘ That 's nice ’ , ‘ You are playing well together ’ . |
| 26 | She found her bearings conventionally enough by working for the US information office in Bogota , Colombia , and then in Rio di Janeiro where she acquired a lifelong love for Brazil . |
| 27 | So by looking at the mates of the heavier hens , Petrie could discover what confers desirable quality in a cock . |
| 28 | If one was asked to produce a summary of the kind of case into which the tribunal was intended to inquire one would do so by looking at the situations which the tribunal has to determine which are mentioned in the statute . |
| 29 | Right , so by looking at the graph , I am just trying to impress upon you that structural change can not always be spotted simply by looking at the data right , anyway , let's now move on to estimate our first model . |
| 30 | The majority , however , did so by appealing to the view of the Revolution offered by the Convention , that James had abdicated the throne . |