Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall length of a longitudinal study may be shortened somewhat by making it semi-longitudinal . |
| 2 | But it will do so by making them explicit , so that in effect techniques become distinguishable from the principles which inform them . |
| 3 | ‘ Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavour to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most , or such as they observe the prince to delight in most . ’ |
| 4 | call a tokenist or segregationist approach , counting black women in by allocating them some scattered mentions , or a separate chapter . |
| 5 | THIS BOOKLET IS TO HELP YOU TO SETTLE IN BY GIVING YOU SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUBJECTS IN YOUR TIMETABLE . |
| 6 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 7 | Instead of arranging flowers immediately after cutting , help them last longer by conditioning them first . |
| 8 | For others the best way might be talking dirty about safer sex , or just by making it clear what you want by your actions . |
| 9 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |
| 10 | Indeed , it would be unjustified ( and plain silly ) to strengthen corporate power further by granting them judicial privileges originally formulated to protect relatively powerless individuals . |
| 11 | The key question is whether , after decades of exposure to the various ‘ risk factors ’ , it is possible to reduce the frequency of coronary events and the deaths they may cause in men in the highest-risk categories , by altering the way of life of these men , and perhaps also by giving them appropriate drugs . |
| 12 | Since winning their independence in 1949 the government , based in Java , has sought to control its vast domain partly by making it difficult even for Indonesians to travel freely throughout their own country . |
| 13 | I mean is it an attempt by the Government to bribe these schools to opt out by giving them more money ? |
| 14 | The new DOS version , PC Works 3.0 , does offer significant enhancements over its predecessor , mainly by making it easier to do a number of commonly required chores . |
| 15 | He started well by making it clear to a shocked and protesting Curzon that he could not again be Foreign Secretary . |
| 16 | If anything it will make their lives easier by making it impossible for American companies and citizens to keep anything confidential . ’ |
| 17 | There is an obvious tension between a laws-of-war approach seeking to minimise the horrors of war if it occurs , and a deterrence approach seeking to prevent war altogether by making it frightful . |
| 18 | If you go to a house and you realize that it 's only a very small house and it 's a very big van you 'll only pack it up that way because you 're packing faster by doing it that way . |