Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The equity partners will usually want to give their junior colleagues and associates the opportunity to prove their ultimate worth to the firm and that can only be done by giving them direct experience of management . |
| 2 | Old close or tight-covered sofas and chairs can be utterly transformed by giving them new loose covers . |
| 3 | Thus it is clear that ( a ) affirms the footballer ; ( b ) also affirms the footballer because the speaker has made it clear that it is a personal reaction of liking or disliking which has nothing to do with appreciation of football 's being a good game ; ( c ) is affirming also because although criticism of the game is stated , its positive value comes first , and in any case the keen footballer is likely to be the first to agree that the level of enjoyment varies according to different games of football ; ( d ) however veers towards dismissal of football and therefore dismissal of what is meaningful to the footballer , because although it acknowledges that sometimes it is a good game the emphasis is on the negative side ; ( e ) is not affirming because even though the hurt to the footballer is cushioned by making it clear that this is a personal opinion , a very negative judgement is in fact articulated ; ( f ) has the straight effect of dismissing the footballer as well as football because it implies that anyone who spends time on football is stupid . |
| 4 | Even tariffs may have helped by making it better business to own factories inside a market than to try to break into it from outside : the Germans and Swiss supplied the French textile industry in 1900 from eight factories inside France , Germans made chemicals in Russia , and other Germans invested heavily in the coal mines of French Lorraine . |
| 5 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 6 | The software will also work across multiple domains , so that network managers in different parts of the organisation can simultaneously tweak the network ; this is achieved by giving them simultaneous access to the central management database . |
| 7 | For that belief is not analytically or necessarily true ; no contradiction is implied by supposing it false . |
| 8 | The fifth patient with a pouch vaginal fistula also had repeated episodes of pouchitis unresponsive to metronidazole and steroids , and developed multiple superficial pouch perineal and pouch vaginal fistulas , which were managed by laying them open and a proximal diverting ileostomy ; her ileostomy has now been closed and she has a good functional result . |