Example sentences of "[vb base] by [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if the intention is to protect the older person , say by locking them in a room ? |
| 2 | In fact , if glass is prevented from cracking in tension , say by putting it into compression , then it is quite easy to get it to flow like a soft solid ; for instance , glass will behave like putty under the blunt point of a diamond indenter but the shear stresses required to cause flow are well above the normally observed fracture stresses — in common glasses at room temperature usually above 500,000 p.s.i . |
| 3 | So , against Clark , it must be argued that it is misleading to claim that because animals , imbeciles , and normal infants are all weak , defenceless , and at our mercy , to treat any of them in the same way ( say by killing them for food or using them in research ) is ‘ in moral terms , the very same act ’ ( Clark 1978 : 149 ) . |
| 4 | You can usually route hot and cold supply pipes to wherever you want by running them underneath the floorboards , the bath or around the perimeter of the room , hiding them with a low box plinth , which could also be an ideal place to store bathroom bottles . |
| 5 | Visual information helps us interpret the audio signals we receive by reinforcing them with additional clues : a beckoning finger reinforces the words " Come here " ; at the same time the expression on the face of the beckoner can give us a clue as to the nature of the summons . |
| 6 | The function of these groups is not to provide any romantic possibilities ( although that may happen ) , but to provide contact and support by introducing you to people who have similar problems to yourself . |
| 7 | Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger . |
| 8 | Begin by addressing yourself to the problem . |
| 9 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 10 | Furthermore , plants utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that animals eject , and animals Bean yet more energy from the environment by utilizing the oxygen that plants eject by converting it into new combinations of chemicals . |
| 11 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 12 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 13 | Try to make her understand how other people feel by putting herself in their shoes ; by that , I do n't mean hitting her over the head yourself , but explaining to her the pain of the other child when she hit him . |
| 14 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 15 | Start by standing one behind the other to form a straight line . |
| 16 | Bristleworms are predators with a taste for corals and anemones , which they eat by rasping them with their sucker-like mouths . |
| 17 | So we try and compensate by doing lots of family things at the weekends , when we are all together . |
| 18 | He would ‘ age ’ the wooden panels and painted surfaces on which he had lavished so much skill and care by exposing them to extremes of dryness and humidity , direct heat and cold ; and he used controlled violence to inflict scratches and abrasions . |