Example sentences of "[verb] by [verb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goldsmiths employed by abbots and bishops as well as by kings embellished gospel covers by enclosing them in gold set with gems , just as scribes illuminated sacred texts in gold leaf . |
| 2 | What if the intention is to protect the older person , say by locking them in a room ? |
| 3 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 4 | You can usually route hot and cold supply pipes to wherever you want by running them underneath the floorboards , the bath or around the perimeter of the room , hiding them with a low box plinth , which could also be an ideal place to store bathroom bottles . |
| 5 | Some thought that those poor could be rescued by providing them with religious and moral education , vocational training , and better housing . |
| 6 | This too is a useful design tool : a dazzling , disquieting pair , or duality , can be resolved by discharging them into a line . |
| 7 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 8 | This is done by presenting them with programmes designed for native speakers and setting tasks which assume a high level of comprehension of the video material . |
| 9 | Visual information helps us interpret the audio signals we receive by reinforcing them with additional clues : a beckoning finger reinforces the words " Come here " ; at the same time the expression on the face of the beckoner can give us a clue as to the nature of the summons . |
| 10 | Successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have striven to encourage people to invest in pension plans by favouring them with tax concessions — to the point at which they are one of the most attractive and tax-efficient investments you can make . |
| 11 | Encourage the puppy to recognize its own chews by handing them to it . |
| 12 | Most EQ units have line inputs which are not suitable for direct microphone inputs , but these low level signals can be matched by feeding them via an amplification stage , a facility which is provided on some mixers . |
| 13 | For that is how they are supposed to function , that is how they publicly claim that they attempt to function , and , as we shall see below , that is the normal way to justify their authority ( i.e. not by assuming that they always succeed in acting in the ideal way , but on the ground that they do so often enough to justify their power ) , and naturally authorities are judged and their performance evaluated by comparing them to the ideal . |
| 14 | Any proceeds in year 1 are also present values , but those in succeeding years are discounted by multiplying them by the fraction given at the appropriate year in the chosen rate of interest column in the tables . |
| 15 | Any proceeds in year 1 are also present values , but those in succeeding years are discounted by multiplying them by the fraction given at the appropriate year in the chosen rate of interest column in the tables . |
| 16 | The significance of these percentages can be gauged by comparing them with the South East 's share of total manufacturing which stood then at about 27 per cent . |
| 17 | Their village post office has helped by providing them with a window display of Wild Thing models . |
| 18 | The public interest is better served by encouraging newspapers to publish unorthodox points of view in letters columns — an objective which is not helped by depriving them of a " fair comment " defence when they publish letters with which they do not agree . |
| 19 | The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory . |
| 20 | Zollner 's illusion makes parallel lines seem to diverge by placing them on a zigzag striped background . |
| 21 | Their size can be assessed by comparing them with the original spread in the chronic sickness rates ; this will be discussed at length in the next section . |
| 22 | STAFF at an Indian restaurant forced two angry knife-wielding customers to flee by bombarding them with curry powder , a court was told . |
| 23 | The principles can be demonstrated by applying them to the design of a stepped shaft where a maximum stress concentration factor has been specified . |
| 24 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 25 | Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 . |
| 26 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 27 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 28 | Unlike the screen control codes , the printer control codes can not be strung together or explicitly set by preceding them with a " + " or " - " . |
| 29 | But their details are often still controversial and their meaning can only be appreciated by placing them in context . |
| 30 | ( v ) Adhere the cells on to their glass coverslips by centrifuging them at 500 g for 10 min at 20-C in a HB-4 rotor of a Sorvall RC-5 centrifuge . |