Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He displayed his contempt for Hollywood at the awards ceremony by refusing to accept the gold statuette and sending an Indian girl in his stead to protest at the way the movie industry had treated the Red Man . |
| 2 | Recently the Georgian Supreme Soviet had responded to this increasing violence by voting to make the carrying of firearms by the general public illegal , and had given the population until the end of February to surrender weapons . |
| 3 | Underwood got the first try , following a searing diagonal run by Heslop , and then returned the compliment by giving Heslop the scoring pass for the second . |
| 4 | After the tax had been abolished and the boycott lifted , Rank compounded his incompetence by deciding to keep the best playdates for his mix of low-budget featurettes and big-budget pictures . |
| 5 | But it would be even worse to fudge the issue by trying to persuade the client that the needs are n't really there ! |
| 6 | Dollimore perceives that critical opinion has tried to resolve this issue by tending to read the play as either vindicating Faustus or the morality structure . |
| 7 | The Green Party has announced its intention of forcing environmental issues into the mainstream political agenda during the election campaign by attempting to affect the outcome of key marginal seats . |
| 8 | Kenneth Brown , 21 , had tricked his way into the Surrey home by asking to use the toilet , an Old Bailey jury was told . |
| 9 | So , with an unfamiliar type make quite sure that the locks are positive and always double check by trying to push the canopy up after locking it . |
| 10 | Genesis took a rather unique way round the problem of replacing lost manpower by resolving to confine the writing and recording duties to the surviving three band members and taking on ‘ extra hands ’ for live performance . |
| 11 | The local historian must therefore search for the peculiar identity of his own town by getting to know the place thoroughly on the ground and from maps , old photographs and prints , together with newspapers , directories , census returns and whatever other documents come to light during the course of his enquiries . |
| 12 | Faced with its gravest crisis since coming to power in May , the government on Oct. 28 secured the lifting of the traffic blockade by offering to reduce the price rise to 35 per cent . |
| 13 | In cases involving more than one child , the circular advised that it might be better for the local Board of Guardians to test the widow 's need by offering to take the children into the workhouse rather than give her outdoor relief . |
| 14 | NASHWAN 'S owner and trainer yesterday decided against the only course of action that could have restored the reputation of their Derby winner as one of the outstanding racehorses of the post-war era by opting to by-pass the richest and usually most competitive race in Europe , the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe . |
| 15 | As the Leader of the Opposition has joined us , perhaps he will use his influence on the four members of his party who voted last week to cover up the truth by refusing to permit the Select Committee on Employment to conduct an investigation into the true consequences of a national minimum wage . |
| 16 | In consequence , they seek to prevent democratic damage and state intervention by choosing to emphasise the desirability of setting legal limits to the powers of a democratically elected parliament . |
| 17 | The idea that some form of market will act so as to restrain corporate managers from abusing their discretion by failing to serve the interests of the shareholders is flawed in two ways . |
| 18 | This action involves making amends to self by coming to understand the power of the denial system that is the dominant feature of the disease . |
| 19 | In an example of the sort of judicial activism traditionally deplored by conservatives , however , the Supreme Court effectively overturned the 1966 legislation by ruling that Tamayo-Reyes had forfeited his right of access to a federal court by failing to outline the essence of his objections during the earlier state court proceedings . |
| 20 | In 1969 Michael Howard 's Cantores in Ecclesia did us a service by recording complete the Tallis-Byrd Cantiones sacrae published in 1575 ( L'Oiseau-Lyre SOL 311–13 [ 3 LPs ] ) . |
| 21 | Ultimately , we can only know our institutions of higher education by coming to understand the quality of their internal life . |
| 22 | In 1259 he incurred Henry 's wrath by attempting to subject the royal free chapels in his diocese to episcopal control , a dispute which rumbled on until Roger 's final capitulation in 1281 . |
| 23 | But the Emperor and Pope withdrew to Tivoli , where Barbarossa again confirmed papal authority by refusing to accept the keys in his own name . |
| 24 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 25 | One Brownie has a football and starts the game by trying to roll the ball between another Brownie 's legs . |
| 26 | The critics drove the final nails in the coffin by failing to recognize the film 's new and exciting style ( thanks to Peter Hunt who oddly never made another Bond movie ) and John Barry 's finest ever Bond score , concentrating their venom instead on Lazenby 's ‘ wooden performance ’ . |
| 27 | He made his comments after Tory councillors attempted to delay closing Skinnergate and High Row to traffic by asking to reopen the consultations . |
| 28 | John had made a few 1st Division appearances with Charlton , but undoubtedly the climax of his career came when he captained Palace to promotion to that premier division of world soccer at the end of 1968–69 — and then maintained his high level of performance by helping to keep the Palace in the top flight for the two remaining seasons in which he stayed with the club . |
| 29 | But it can prevent ratification of the entire treaty by refusing to pass the bill . ’ |
| 30 | In a series of press conferences on July 17 , European G-7 leaders complained that the USA and Japan had blocked moves to facilitate large-scale financial assistance to the Soviet Union by refusing to increase the Soviet Union 's borrowing limit from the EBRD [ see also p. 38314 ] or to endorse full Soviet membership of the IMF . |