Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |
| 2 | It would involve the abandonment of rigid conceptualism : the rejection , in other words , of a formal mechanical set of criteria adding up to the concept of adultery which allows hard problems to be solved with apparent ease by simply referring to a formula without examining the deeper issues of justice involved in the case . |
| 3 | A DRC theologian had caused a sensation the previous day by openly confessing to a sense of sin and guilt over the church 's support for apartheid . |
| 4 | The Profitboss jacks up his profit by never acquiescing to unreasonable demands . |
| 5 | Carried away by his success young Thomas Borrow had knocked down the officer , then aggravated his offence by twice striking to the ground his master , Mr. Hambly . |
| 6 | It can be overcome only by constant and constantly renewed efforts to disrupt the reified structure of existence by concretely relating to the concretely manifested contradictions of the total development , by becoming conscious of the immanent meanings of these contradictions for total development . |