Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [v-ing] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Part of the refugee problem will be solved by granting them the right of return to Palestine ( i.e. the West Bank and Gaza Strip ) or to the Jordanian-Palestinian federation . ’ |
2 | This is best answered by asking what the desired goal is . |
3 | The formal literal meaning of the words is the locution ; the act which is performed by saying it the illocution ; a third layer is the perlocution or overall aim of the discourse . |
4 | ‘ The madam would have had me if I had n't escaped by telling her the lodger in the room next door to mine fancied her like crazy , ’ he said . |
5 | But Francis has replied by setting himself a new goal — carrying on past 40 . |
6 | Professor Zander gives the example of parents asking a child-minder to keep the children amused by teaching them a card game . |
7 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
8 | Resources will be identified by assigning them a unique user-defined code . |
9 | inform the Development Manager and the Manager of the person who requested the change of the decision taken by sending them a copy of the Change Review Form |
10 | The Supervisor , initially resentful of the extra floor cleaning brought by muddy police boots , soon found herself softened into liking this polite young constable , and ended by offering him a cup of tea . |
11 | The type payoff is maximized by setting whatever the actions of the other agents ; this is a dominant strategy . |
12 | The earliest large-scale sculpture we have in limestone or marble does not go with the earliest Daedalic ; but the wide acceptance of such an individual style is most naturally explained by supposing it the creation of one artist or school producing major works at major sanctuaries . |