Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 2 | The blinds can be fitted on to a wooden batten with touch-and-close fastener for easy removal , and are operated by pulling up cords which pass through rings on the back of the blind , then through screw-eyes on the underside of the batten . |
| 3 | Complex sentence structures are mastered by building up from simple sentence structures , which have been drilled already in substitution and differential drills . |
| 4 | Timing is critical : many meetings are marred by going on and on . |
| 5 | Change is also implicit in the idea of polyfocal villages , since the suggestion is that such plans are produced by filling in properties between existing or earlier centres . |
| 6 | Experiments have shown that the most flawless surfaces are produced by carrying out the final lapping stages on a lead lap . |
| 7 | This seems to be a rather narrow and limiting definition , and it could be refuted by pointing out that both subject knowledge and research methodology could equally well be tested by examination , without going to the additional effort of writing a thesis . |
| 8 | There are also adjustable tins which enlarge or reduce in size or , as in the case of a numerals tin , can be altered by moving around squares to create different numbers . |
| 9 | It can only be halted by cutting back on demand , thereby raising the unemployment rate to NAIRU . |
| 10 | On Iceland , one might , if one were lucky , also find small quantities of andesitic and rhyolitic rocks being erupted but they are scarce , since they can only be formed by skimming off silica-rich material from a large volume of basaltic magma , in the same way as cream is skimmed off the top of milk . |
| 11 | Can not the sort of difficulty which the theist experiences in terms of describing God , for instance , as personal and impersonal , be justified by pointing out that attempting to think beyond the limits of thought is bound to entail stretching ordinary language beyond what it would normally bear ? |
| 12 | Many straight edges can be joined by picking up the edges , right sides together , on to the needlebed . |
| 13 | Everyone had to wait their turn or be punished by filling in a long complicated questionnaire two hundred and sixteen times . |
| 14 | If the mains stopcock wo n't shut ( and there is no servicing valve ) , the water supply to the cistern can be stopped by tying up the ballvalve . |
| 15 | This can be checked by looking back through the arguments . |
| 16 | We saw that the combinatorial explosion of hypotheses produced by breadth-first search could be limited by cutting down the depth or the branching factor of the search space , and we described two general methods of doing this : — |
| 17 | Cooking can be solved by eating out , raiding the chill cabinets or phoning for a pizza . |
| 18 | It is this too which causes me personally to be deeply resentful of the practice so prevalent in the mass of fiscal and planning legislation of relegating provisions of real substance to Schedules which are sometimes cross-referenced between one another , so that construing the statute becomes a sort of verbal jigsaw puzzle that can only be solved by laying out numerous copies of the Act open at different pages or by the judicious use of more fingers than the number with which nature has been pleased to endow us . |
| 19 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |
| 20 | Under the new act these problems were to be addressed by setting up coordinating budget committees in the House and the Senate , drawing up a realistic timetable for dealing with the budget and establishing a Congressional Budget Office that would provide the staff and expertise necessary for dealing with the budget responsibly . |
| 21 | They can be installed by taking out one layer of bricks ( so you 'll have to cut through a wall — make sure it 's suitable ! ) ; or they can be installed in a corner , or in an alcove , with a surrounded flat fascia , in which case you 'll need to build a timber framework to support the niche and hold the fascia . |
| 22 | If a car has been left at the chapel , a more direct way to it may be made by turning down into the valley from Outrake Foot . |
| 23 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 24 | This would be done by bringing in metal tanks , flooding them and adding filtration and ventilation . |
| 25 | However , if the tooth is knocked out completely , little additional damage can be done by fighting on . |
| 26 | This could be done by beating down , as in the assertion of dominance over local authorities . |
| 27 | ‘ Modest good may be done by signing on ; much damage would be done if we do not , ’ he argues . |
| 28 | ‘ Prudence ’ , claimed Sam Smiles , ‘ requires that we pitch our scale of living a degree below our means , rather than up to them : but this can only be done by carrying out faithfully a plan of living by which both ends may be made to meet . ’ |
| 29 | Such a client pool could best be exploited by setting up sales within the country rather than wooing clients to bid at international level , which is currently their approach in Korea , another target area in their long-term world-wide strategy . |
| 30 | Stop pretending that pension commitments in the next century can be met by piling up bits of paper now , and restore the system to its original pay-as-you-go basis by cutting payroll taxes . |