Example sentences of "at [noun sg] by [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we know the yield on these securities , then we can calculate their price at issue by using the simple present value formula , . |
| 2 | promote health at work by creating a modern occupational health service within the NHS . |
| 3 | Voters could make their preferences known at home by punching a computer button and — since computers count no less swiftly in the Western Isles than Westminster North — all results could be published simultaneously , guaranteeing an early night for Messrs Paxman , Dimbleby , and Sissons . |
| 4 | He overcame the challenge to his authority at home by enlisting the support of the Kievan ruler , Vladimir , who sent a band of 6,000 Varangian mercenaries from Sweden to the emperor 's assistance . |
| 5 | Dialectic reasoning was an attempt to arrive at truth by exploring the contradictions in an argument . |
| 6 | If approached by a predator , the crab confronts it with its outstretched claws bearing the stinging anemones , rather as primitive man might have held a wolf at bay by using a flaming torch . |
| 7 | She holds the adventurers at bay by holding the scroll over a candle flame and threatening to destroy it . |
| 8 | Meanwhile she decided to hold Spittals at bay by investigating the dead man 's link with the Polish community in London . |
| 9 | View this as a system for setting up three-dimensional banks of text and graphics , between which the ‘ reader ’ can jump at will by pressing a special key when a highlight on screen shows there is a link to material on another layer . |
| 10 | Matt Kelly , chairman of CAHAG , said : ‘ Greenwich has compounded its refusal to acknowledge that she is vulnerable and at risk by offering a child in need totally inappropriate accommodation . |
| 11 | The method of arriving at cost by applying the latest purchase price to the total number of units in stock is unacceptable in principle because it is not necessarily the same as actual cost and in times of rising prices , will result in the taking of a profit which has not been realised . |
| 12 | I got full marks for composition at school by cribbing the life of Albert Schweitzer and claiming I wanted to be a missionary when I grew up . |
| 13 | Rich marked his first day back at school by opening the door and wanging a gym shoe violently across the classroom : it broke a window . |