Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political opponents such as Mr Chihana take great risks by returning to the country ; Dr Banda recently said that if they did , they would be ‘ meat for crocodiles ’ . |
| 2 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 3 | Both Weston and Olson , for instance , found that teachers involved in the Schools Council Integrated Science Project ( SCISP ) , breached the project 's guidelines by teaching from the board and encouraging pupils to revise — and that these teachers referred to the presence of examinations as the reason for their continuing use of these transmission-like styles of teaching . |
| 4 | For disillusioned people like me , why not have a method of showing displeasure by having on the ballot paper the names of the aspiring candidates and also a space for a no confidence vote . |
| 5 | One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title . |
| 6 | As the impossible dream drew closer , Allison began to bait rival fans by walking along the touchline in his fedora and making outrageous Muhammad Ali-style pre-match predictions . |
| 7 | Breathing easier , she took the weight off her trembling legs by sitting on the end of the bed . |
| 8 | A traditionally minded bishop had given the advertisements a welcome boost by complaining in the pulpit and in The Times that the campaign glorified adultery as well as Trumper 's Tea Bags . |
| 9 | Marco van Basten , the European Footballer of the Year , gave European champions Milan a timely boost by returning to the squad for training this week for the first time since a cartilage operation on 1 September . |
| 10 | The day after the elections , Enoch Powell , the Official Unionist MP for South Down , put the formal touch to the end of the coalition by announcing to the Speaker of the House of Commons that Dr Paisley would no longer be welcome in the office used by the Official Unionist members . |
| 11 | Peons were even brought in sustain the illusion by prodding at the land , and a bulldozer chugged about . |
| 12 | Latter-day Cobdenites faced the future by returning to the subversive roots of their creed . |
| 13 | The 800 species of hermit crab that occur in the world 's oceans are distinguished from all other crabs by living inside the unoccupied shells of marine snails . |
| 14 | Therefore a new link road was created joining Westburn Avenue to Baberton Mains Hill by passing beneath the Edinburgh/Carstairs railway line . |
| 15 | Indeed , I believe that those who insist on scaremongering have done themselves and the NHS no good by concentrating on the privatisation scare . ’ |
| 16 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 17 | As the anxiety for each target is overcome so the client is only ever raising their anxiety by ten units by going onto the next target . |
| 18 | If you are bleeding badly then try to stop the flow of blood by pressing on the wound with a large pad of cotton wool , or some clean material . |
| 19 | Improve his blood by marrying into the old line ! ’ |
| 20 | Nine-stone Deirdre , 39 , halted the driverless car by pulling on the door handle . |
| 21 | The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof . |
| 22 | We can corroborate our timescale of the circulation by looking at the changes in density surface of the salinity minimum . |
| 23 | A small group of Christians also expressed their opposition by demonstrating outside the government 's headquarters . |
| 24 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |
| 25 | He explained his change of mind by pointing to the danger that if Stockholm went ahead without the Allied socialists , the case for the Allied war effort would be lost by default : |
| 26 | Aerospace officials , however , are hoping to change the government 's mind by pointing to the new activist policies of and by citing evidence that the US government is spending considerably more than the three per cent of turnover accepted as a limit under a trade agreement signed with the European Commission last July . |
| 27 | I remained motionless for a while , practising the muscle relaxation techniques I had learned in drama , sending round my mental supervisor to check that every part was free from tension , at the same time , striving to calm myself mentally , to empty my mind by focusing on the One , then dismissing that also . |
| 28 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 29 | ‘ We think he broke his neck by falling over the edge of these rocks , ’ I said . |
| 30 | The declaration by the Supreme Soviet in Byelorussia closely resembled the Ukrainian declaration , but alluded to secession by ascribing to the republic the right to " voluntary unions with other states , and free withdrawal from such unions " . |