Example sentences of "of [noun sg] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative explanation lies in Dr Mahatir 's ‘ look East ’ policy , designed to break away — finally and for ever — from the colonial past and to speed up the pace of change by harnessing the vitality of Japanese firms . |
| 2 | It sets out to achieve its objective of protection by promoting the kind of policies and practices which it believes would enable the rural environment to be utilised and developed for the good of society without destroying aesthetic and spiritual beauty , and by opposing other policies and practices which in its view would have such an effect . |
| 3 | Normally , purchasers will achieve these three levels of protection by using the methods described below : ( 1 ) Due diligence. ( 2 ) Warranties and indemnities. ( 3 ) Restrictive covenants . |
| 4 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 5 | It was left to Unix System Labs to step in a few weeks later and take the reins of ANDF by licensing the Ten15 technology from DRA , saying it would productise ANDF in a future release of its Unix SVR4.2 operating system ( UX No 390 ) , see front page . |
| 6 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 7 | to be of value as a form of catechesis by promoting the development and maturing of faith — a faith based not on blind obedience , nor brought about by coercion on the part of parents or teachers ; but rather , based on a reasoned , personal response to the call of Jesus . |
| 8 | You can often save yourself a lot of money by tackling the simpler problems yourself . |
| 9 | He wrote to the managing director of THF 's leisure division , suggesting that the company could make a lot of money by putting the machines into its own outlets . |
| 10 | Joan can be said to be responding to Carol 's relatively heavy use of Creole by increasing the " Creole feature rating " of her own utterances : thus the two " negotiate a language " which is identifiable as " Creole " or " Patois " by virtue of there being Creole features in the speech of all parties , though to differing degrees . |
| 11 | We must sustain the infrastructure of the arts in this time of recession by spreading the funds available to all forms of the arts and not to a select few with a special clout . |
| 12 | LORD Whitelaw , the former deputy prime minster , warned yesterday of the danger of producing low-quality acts of parliament by overloading the 15-bill Queen 's Speech programme with additional ‘ instant legislation ’ . |
| 13 | Attempts have also been made in the Soviet Union to strengthen democratic control of administration by augmenting the authority of elected deputies to exercise an ombudsman-like role ( Hill , Dunmore and Dawisha 1981 , p. 213 ) . |
| 14 | For the great majority of women sterilisation provides peace of mind by removing the fear of unplanned pregnancy and this can lead to a happier sex life . |
| 15 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 16 | Similarly the attempt to reveal the falsity of this representation of labour by examining the history of its development is part of a revolutionary activity since it challenges the unquestionability of the dominant representation . |
| 17 | We see there how Eliot indulged his sense of irony by resuscitating the voices of older poets through his anthropological interests and satirizing ‘ a time , barren of myths ’ and a world of those ‘ illimitable suburbs ’ which he saw in 1921 as filled with the public school 's ‘ petrified product ’ . |
| 18 | You can also repeat a specified section of tape by using the Loc 1 and Loc 2 buttons , also in the Autolocator section . |
| 19 | The work of Hume , Kant and Lessing was to be of especial significance for theology ; for while they undermined the earlier kind of rationalism by restricting the claims and powers of reason and pointing to the sheer variety and diversity of history , they raised equally sharp questions for theologians . |
| 20 | Since s.4(2) is not incorporated into s.15 , the accused will be guilty if he deceives his neighbour into moving the boundary fence in his favour in order to gain the land , but he would not be guilty of theft by moving the fence . |
| 21 | If this was really the case then surely those Conservatives given to disguising themselves in this manner could have saved their party a lot of grief by letting the opponents of their ‘ professed stance ’ into the secret of their ‘ true intention ’ . |
| 22 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 23 | The body functions with this relatively small volume of blood by controlling the muscle tissue in the walls of the small arteries ( arterioles ) , thereby narrowing ( vasoconstricting ) or widening ( vasodilating ) the lumen . |
| 24 | There seemed nothing left for him to do but go back to London , provide Fiona with some trumped-up evidence of adultery by spending the night with a prostitute — something he had never done before — and try to find a job . |
| 25 | It was clear that literature deepened our sense of the import of nationality by giving the most intense and at the same time most manifold expression of it . |
| 26 | Access to credit enabled capitalists to maintain the rate of accumulation by increasing the proportion of funds borrowed ( largely workers ' savings ) . |
| 27 | Central to this was a process of taking control of the workplace away from the operatives and placing it in the hands of management by providing the latter with the technical information that had formerly been monopolized by the former . |
| 28 | With Ostpolitik and acceptance of the division of Germany in the late Sixties the church removed one of the worst bones of contention by leaving the pan-German Evangelical Church . |
| 29 | Brooks continues its commitment to the sport of triathlon by sponsoring the British Triathlon team for 1992 . |
| 30 | Ten years earlier no Company official would have done much about this , and even in 1757 not many officials would have done the same as Clive : he joined the conspiracy against Siraj-ud-Daula , led his little army of 3,000 men against the Bengal army of 60,000 , committed his troops beyond hope of withdrawal by crossing the Hughli ( the lesser Ganges ) , and on 23 June 1757 held them steady at the battle of Plassey . |