Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should be encouraged to spell words for themselves , and to remember the correct spelling , eg by compiling their own list of words they have used . |
| 2 | Similarly , each and every producer , merely by setting their own marginal cost equal to the price of their output , will ensure that the marginal cost of films is twice the marginal cost of meals . |
| 3 | ‘ Those who desire to win the favour of princes generally endeavour to do so by offering them those things which they themselves prize most , or such as they observe the prince to delight in most . ’ |
| 4 | On royal orders , the towns were directed to see to their defences , and they had to do so by finding their own sources of finance through local effort . |
| 5 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 6 | I could see that only by changing our own personal worlds will we change the world at large . |
| 7 | Although the Crown avoided a large debt it did so only by reducing its own revenue and patronage and by imposing the serious social burdens of debasement . |
| 8 | Such a balancing act could keep his government in being only by increasing his own reputation for lack of principle . |
| 9 | Since it is only by understanding his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language that we can hope to see through questions and answers about ‘ Other Minds ’ , let us consider the positive side of his teaching first . |
| 10 | Mark tells us so much about who Jesus is and what he 's come for just by showing us that one miracle but what I 'm suggesting to you here is that you can look for greater meaning in it , further symbolism . |
| 11 | You ca n't turn the clock back but with Potton 's help you can still make those dreams come true , recreating the warm cosy atmosphere of yesterday by building your own Heritage cottage . |
| 12 | However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language . |
| 13 | Television erects major obstacles to that goal both by imposing its own definition of what a whole person is and by teaching us a way of living that accords with its own curriculum . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Swindon celebrated promotion to the Premier League today by breaking their own club record transfer fee . |
| 15 | You can also make a gorgeous looped and fringed edge simply by knitting lots more rows between picking up the stitches to make loops at least en centimetres deep ( four inches ) — or even longer as a tremendous finish for shawls and stoles , or for the edges of collars and cuffs and jackets . |
| 16 | ‘ If Harry got there , ’ the old man said , ‘ then he got there by finding his own path . |
| 17 | That is true but unless you invest in the time to capture those skills , either by training your own staff or by hiring an external designer to show you how it 's done , it is almost inevitable that the quality of your published material will go down , not up . |
| 18 | If you go to a house and you realize that it 's only a very small house and it 's a very big van you 'll only pack it up that way because you 're packing faster by doing it that way . |