Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Breathing easier , she took the weight off her trembling legs by sitting on the end of the bed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The storyteller explains her words by referring to the deaths of her father-in-law and husband , as well as the capture of the ark . |
| 8 | He ignored her words by reverting to the former subject . |
| 9 | Once you start walking regularly you can vary your walks by going to the park , the beach or the hills . |
| 10 | After some months , the baby learns to walk along branches by holding onto the hairs of its mother 's rump . |
| 11 | The tigers had to go , too — although not before one had terrified drinkers by leaping into the bar of the famous hotel named after the city 's founder . |
| 12 | Ambassador Lipski had begun to complain to Göring that German newspapers like Der Stürmer and Der Gessilige from Pila were stirring up resentment against the Poles throughout the border districts by referring to the forcible separation of Danzig from the Reich , and by referring to the Polish Corridor as land ceded to Poland . |
| 13 | Scrambling to his feet , he tested the floor at his feet by stamping with the heel of his uninjured leg . |
| 14 | Focusing more particularly on forgiveness , Jesus defended the woman who had poured myrrh over his feet by pointing to the same reason : ‘ Her great love proves that her many sins have been forgiven ; where little has been forgiven , little love is shown . ’ |
| 15 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 16 | The protection is similar to that afforded to land sites by scheduling under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 . |
| 17 | In this case the tendency to hit multiple keys by typing on the cracks also causes problems . |
| 18 | This was seen by some to have advantages by conforming to the system adopted by most other modular and course unit schemes in polytechnics and universities . |
| 19 | When she left West Heath , Diana followed in sister Sarah 's footsteps by enrolling at the Institut Alpin Videmanette , an expensive finishing school near Gstaad in Switzerland , where Diana took classes in domestic science , dressmaking and cookery . |
| 20 | This project is designed to examine some of these effects by focussing upon the Lake District in particular . |
| 21 | KNOWING this , I am stirred to re-educate my own neglected senses by moving about the allotment with eyes almost closed when no one is looking . |
| 22 | They rub salt into God 's wounds by romanticizing about the past . |
| 23 | Sometimes it is the Had I But Known what grim secret lurked beneath the smiling exterior I would never have set foot within the door ; Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now , I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor . |
| 24 | But Prof Boulois said the vaccine would save most lives by protecting against the most common type of pneumonia , which often followed influenza and was widely misdiagnosed . |
| 25 | He failed to take a wicket at Sydney in the next Test , and helped Gibbs to a reciprocal three wickets in four balls by falling to the first he received . |
| 26 | When choosing a massage oil , you can , if you like , try to match your partner 's needs by referring to the therapeutic charts and other Aromatherapy information in Chapter 5 . |
| 27 | An expert from L'Oréal will talk about what happens to skin as it gets older and explain how to keep up with its changing needs by choosing from the extensive Plénitude range , which helps to combat the signs of ageing . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | There are those who believe that their houses are built over tombs , unknown to archaeologists , and that the owners still supplement their incomes by selling off the contents bit by bit on the black market . |