Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dexter compounds the effect by writing in the present tense , depriving the narration of even the possibility of temporal causality ( and making it read like a 290-page stage direction ) . |
| 4 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 5 | Responding to Heath 's invitation , Wilson wrote that he was not a member of the Conservative Party , or of any political party , and while he was willing to assist the Advisory Committee by participating in the work of its study group on post-war crime , he would not wish to do so if the implication of his participation was to become politically committed . |
| 6 | ‘ We try to keep our own plants running flat out , at maximum efficiency , and make up changing needs by buying in the varying five or 10 per cent above that from other manufacturers . |
| 7 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 8 | The musical show is on at Guildford Civil Hall on Thursday , April 23rd at 2 p.m. and you could win yourself two free seats by colouring in the Mr. Men picture , filling in the form and sending it to The Junior Editor Club , The Herald , 114–115 West Street , Farnham , GU9 7HL , to arrive by Friday of next week . |
| 9 | Do n't forget Leeds winning instead — the best scenario would be Leeds winning on goal difference by scoring in the last minute . |
| 10 | staff exposed themselves to danger by standing in the four-foot . |
| 11 | It was a spectator sport where young men would show their courage by standing in the path of the maddened bull and then leaping side at the last moment . |
| 12 | England 's record try-scorer held off his tackler , fed younger brother Tony on the loop and the 24-year-old celebrated the first brother partnership in an England line-up for 54 years by scoring in the left-hand corner . |
| 13 | He even lost his Rothmans Grand Prix title by losing in the first round to world No 52 , Welshman Tony Chappel , while in the grip of fear . |
| 14 | Bordon came out for the second half in determined mood and soon Wilson made up for a number of misses by flicking in the third goal . |
| 15 | The Treasury recognized the additional expenditure implications of this planning defect by including in the White Paper a financial allowance ( normally positive ) called the relative price effect ( RPE ) . |
| 16 | Management committees are being asked to take more responsibility for the shaping of their bureaux by participating in the planning and assessment processes . |
| 17 | We would be very grateful to anyone who is prepared to obtain sponsorship for DIAL UK by running in the Great North Run . |
| 18 | Fired by a determination to change this order of things , Louis-Napoleon found his first outlet by participating in the risings of 1830–31 in Italy directed against Austrian rule , in themselves an echo of the July Revolution in France which had overthrown the restored Bourbon monarchy . |
| 19 | It is therefore necessary when conducting a survey of a flat to examine the lease to see what each owner is liable to pay for the upkeep of the building as a whole , to cross-question the managing agents on foreseeable charges , and to make some assessment of the state of the structure as a whole by looking in the roof space , checking for cracks in halls , staircases , basements and external walls . |
| 20 | This is equivalent to obtaining one tableau from the other by pivoting in the jth column while ( 9.8 ) has a non-negative solution with . |
| 21 | It 's easy to switch between the different sections of the menu by keying in the numbers at the bottom of the page , and , if the Met section has a Terminal Aerodrome Forecast ( TAF ) available , you can access it by a cross-referencing key and then return to the AIS section with a single keystroke . |
| 22 | In a partially shaded part of the garden , not overhung by trees , shrubs or other plants that can lead to rain drip and where air movement will not be impeded and so encourage fungal attack , make a slit trench by driving in the spade full depth with the blade held vertically , and forcing open a narrow V-shaped slit , as shown in Figure 14 . |
| 23 | It might seem idiotic but a scene from a recently released Hollywood film about American football , the programme , depicts young players testing their bravery by lying in the middle of a busy road as the traffic drives by . |
| 24 | Bristol City 1 Middlesbrough 1ANDREW COLE , on loan from Arsenal , saved Bristol City last night by equalising in the 66th minute against Middlesbrough after the visitors seemed to have taken command in the first half . |
| 25 | As the Tory faithful trumpeted their green credibility in the Winter Gardens , Ann Taylor , the Labour environment spokeswoman , was on Blackpool beach amusing photographers and terrifying holidaymakers by paddling in the shallows in a white laboratory coat and protective wellingtons . |
| 26 | But two Babergh District Council committee chairmen have now locked horns over the deal , with one accusing the other of acting outside his authority by intervening in the dispute . |
| 27 | Daughter Hayley said : ‘ For a while he was able to watch television by sitting in the hall with a pair of binoculars . |
| 28 | Mr Michel Moussel , the pollution director at the ministry , said that there was no question of checking the allegations by digging in the dump at Montchanin in the Saone et Loire department even if it was proved that the dioxin was buried there . |
| 29 | Ron started his career by working in the laboratory of John Lyle & Co. at Fordneuk Street and also attended Kidderminster College . |
| 30 | The Bebington Club can clinch promotion at the final fixture in Wales in August by finishing in the top three . |