Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know he 's not exactly God 's gift to forensic science , but he 's a conscientious plodder and you 're not going to stimulate either his brain or his speed by bullying the poor little beast . |
| 2 | CsA prevents T-cell proliferation by blocking the calcium-activated pathway leading to interleukin-2 transcription . |
| 3 | From here , instead of returning by the same route , it is possible to descend the mountain 's opposite side by taking the other cog-wheel railway from the Rigi Kulm to Arth , the bottom station near the Arth-Goldau junction station on the Swiss Federal Railway main line from Luzern , Basel , Zurich and the Gotthard line . |
| 4 | Experiment by comparing the following two different statements about the same facts . |
| 5 | The range was given a tremendous boost by winning the premier award of the carpet industry — ‘ The Style Setter Award . ’ |
| 6 | In many places the Trust is resisting the urge automatically to replant and is aiming instead for natural regeneration by creating the right conditions for species such as birch , ash and beech to self-seed . |
| 7 | The services are targeted at customers with 1,000 personal computers or more , multinational companies , or companies with a lot of branches , and are intended to provide such organisations with a better return on their investment by attacking the hidden costs of installation , support , and implementation of an ever-increasing number of upgrades . |
| 8 | ‘ If you believe otherwise you 're lying to yourself , ’ he said of his contention that a white person was not equipped to make a film about black people and he refuted accusations of misogynism in his movie by dismissing the very concept , stating ‘ misogynism is not a black term . |
| 9 | Alex Dampier 's team , bidding to end 46 years of Olympic exile by claiming the final place in next February 's Winter Games in Lillehammer , looked to have seen their dreams wrecked . |
| 10 | And outside Alton Library on Monday night a thief broke into a Metro car by prising the top half of the door away from the bodywork . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman has for some time been against the original fast rail link through Kent and south London , and we have learnt tonight that he is against the current project , apparently because he believes that all British Rail 's money should be spent on saving his neck by improving the lousy commuter service that his constituents have had to tolerate for 13 years of Tory misrule — to use a well-known phrase from a couple of decades back . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment Corp realises that it may have been a little hasty in taking its toys away in a huff , and has returned to the Technology Plc fold by re-appointing the Warrington-based company as a value-added reseller for predominantly desktop and server products : DEC withdrew its business , when Technology was acquired by ICL Plc in July 1992 ( CI No 1,966 ) ; Technology has now joined DEC 's Corporate Reseller Programme , and , according to DEC UK 's director of complementary solutions organisation sales , Ian Smith , the company is expected to ‘ play a key role in our increasingly value-added reseller-led product selling strategy ’ . |
| 13 | Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata . |
| 14 | This would simply intensify the class cleavage by removing the middle tier which now spans the gulf between top and bottom . ’ |
| 15 | He opened the briefing by telling the assembled squad : ‘ In this case there was nothing left at the scene … |
| 16 | Alice 's Restaurant ( 1969 ) had an obvious appeal for those who could identify with a communal haven for hippies , and Little Big Man would continue to reveal his preoccupation with the outsider by seeing the Cheyenne as ‘ ethnic ’ hippies who contrasted favourably with white civilisation . |
| 17 | THE AGRICULTURAL Research Council is about to dive in at the deep end of commercial research by launching the Agricultural Genetics Company . |
| 18 | Collective defence continued to be the subject of considerable discussion in Western Europe , in 1958 , and it was proposed , at Brussels , to create a new force by combining the western military forces in some way . |
| 19 | And hence we can not check on whether we are following the rule by recalling the original sensation . |
| 20 | Always envisioned by the architects , Peter and Ursula Trint ( Cologne ) and Dieter Quast ( Heidelberg ) , as part of the final plan , the new building completes the museum complex by linking the old and new wings and tripling the existing exhibition space . |
| 21 | Another shadow foreign spokesman , George Robertson , said : ‘ If the Government overrules the House of Commons vote on the Maastricht social chapter by invoking the royal prerogative on ratifying treaties , it will be an historic betrayal of Parliament . ’ |
| 22 | Kirk began his telegram by summarising the main points of Gen McCreery 's AC/1 89 , about " unmanageable numbers of refugees and prisoners of war … materially deteriorating from operational capacity " of 5 Corps ( although he did not mention McCreery 's opening point about the " large numbers of surrendered personnel from Army Group SE " ) . |
| 23 | The decision to fulfil this ambition by abandoning the old organisation and founding a wholly new one was not lightly taken . |
| 24 | I shall begin this review by considering the available evidence about different types of support in families , grouping under five main headings : economic support ; accommodation ; personal care ; practical support and child care ; emotional and moral support . |
| 25 | We must end this review by noting the relative simplicity of many of the small towns alongside modern notions of complex urban morphologies . |
| 26 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 27 | Spread all the remaining green royal icing over the cake drum around the stable , and stipple it to create a grass effect by placing the flat side of a palette knife on to the icing and drawing it upwards in little strokes . |
| 28 | American congressmen will soon be debating the most radical financial reform that country has contemplated since the 1930s , one that could change the links between finance and industry by ending the old separation between commercial and investment banks , and by allowing industrial firms to own banks . |
| 29 | Option 2 : Dispense with a ceiling mounted light by reconnecting the existing light 's supply cable to a junction box … |
| 30 | The Foundation must aim to build up and then maintain energy and momentum by exploiting the moral authority of its position as insistent ‘ animateur ’ . |