Example sentences of "[noun] by [v-ing] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring the newcomers , Hale coaxed Lawyer and his headmen over to his side by offering them personal guarantees and doubling the size of the proposed reservation . |
| 2 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 3 | But thankfully , she was very supportive throughout and played the role of my psychoanalyst by helping me open up . |
| 4 | Also , while he is paying and after he has paid , do n't add to your worries by giving him more credit . |
| 5 | Thereafter , the authorities had the evidence from the JCP 's own objectives to justify the suppression and extinction of opposition by labelling it Marxist . |
| 6 | Before he departed , he did his best to curb Prince John 's ambition by giving him several huge tracts of English land in Derbyshire , Somerset , Dorset , Devon and Cornwall . |
| 7 | The dilemma for the author writing for readers rather than for listeners is to avoid delaying the source marker for too long , and yet to avoid destroying the dramatic effect by placing it first . |
| 8 | Hera punished Echo by making her unable to speak , except to always repeat the last words anybody said to her . |
| 9 | The international organisations and aid donors did what they could to fill the gap by giving them special status and new credit facilities , but it was only just enough to keep them financially afloat . |
| 10 | In England at that time shop girls would have a weekly wage of about twenty-five shillings so John Tiller was giving dancers an excellent deal by paying them fifty shillings a week when on tour , matinées providing an extra ten shillings . |
| 11 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |
| 12 | Contradictory stories tell of Vincent coming into his own as a pacifier , quelling an uprising of vengeance-bent miners by persuading them that violence only begets violence . |
| 13 | Lower a too-high ceiling by painting it darker . |
| 14 | We will encourage victims to report sexual offences by giving them statutory anonymity . |
| 15 | She strongly approves of her brother 's attention to his second great house at Chawton , because he is ‘ proving & strengthening his attachment to the place by making it better ’ , even down to a ‘ solicitude ’ for the inadequate dimensions of a pantry door ; for an attention to domestic minutiae , if normally unstated , indicates a concern for other people , at least at one 's own level of society . |
| 16 | There were witnesses to that , so he might as well earn a bonus point by mentioning it first . |
| 17 | We give it proper attention by placing it first ) . |
| 18 | ‘ We 're looking at the resistance mechanisms and hope to develop technology to control insects by stopping them developing resistance . ’ |
| 19 | The purpose of psychoanalytic therapy , according to Freud , was to remove the power of the symptom by making it intelligible , by showing the sense that it had . |
| 20 | It helps to solve our problems with Chrissie and Fred by making it clear that we are doing something about the food costs . |
| 21 | It has been loosely referred to as any mode of policing other than the rapid-response crime control type ; an alternative which specifically seeks to make constables part of the community by making them responsible for a geographical area , known as ‘ permanent ’ or ‘ home ’ beats ; a means of developing communication between the police and the local community ; and a process by which responsibility for crime control and prevention is shared with the community , both also known as ‘ community relations ’ ( Weatheritt 1983 : 4–5 ) . |
| 22 | Do n't warm wine by placing it next to a radiator or open fire , as this will cause it to taste coarse . |
| 23 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 24 | He paid compensation to the monks by giving them ten years ' revenue from an archiepiscopal estate worth £30 a year . |
| 25 | Either attempts can be made to ensure that corporate managers behave as profit-maximizers by making them responsive once again to the market ; or , alternatively , new life can be breathed into the legal model of the company so that managers are once again forced to act in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman does a valuable service by reminding us that Labour is committed to a policy of heavy redistributive taxation . |
| 27 | As Dr David Owen says in his book Our NHS , by exploiting and accentuating the apparent weaknesses in the system , the media is at risk of endangering the survival of the whole service by making it unattractive to recruits of the right calibre and commitment : |
| 28 | The programme , which began in the early 1970s , aimed at helping students to reassess their own assumptions by giving them first-hand experience of the life and social conditions in which many children grow and develop . |
| 29 | The package , called Hippix and developed at the university 's Center for Software Science , includes Unix commands and libraries that Hippo maintains will let Unix users cost-effectively integrate PCs into their Unix networks by giving them identical tools for both platforms . |
| 30 | MUSIC lovers were yesterday told how to make ‘ significant ’ savings on compact discs by ordering them direct from the US . |