Example sentences of "by [verb] [noun pl] with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French reacted by opening negotiations with the Jacobite exiles in Paris , who responded with the usual optimistic accounts of the prospects for an invasion . |
| 2 | There is an urgent need for the Book Trade to take a proactive role both in terms of educating itself about the new trading opportunities and by establishing links with the principal multimedia publishing interests worldwide . |
| 3 | The wartime routine was enlivened by a series of afternoon musical concerts for secondary school pupils at the Davenport Theatre ; by potato-picking at harvest time ; by Christmas work at the General Post Office ; by firewatching duties with the ARP , both at School and at Stockport High School ( the latter venue being very popular , a girls ' school and not to be confused with its short-lived 19th century boys ' predecessor ) ; and by the various fund-raising " War Weeks " : " War Weapons Week " in 1941 raised £5,729 ; " School Warships " in 1942 £5,900 ; " Wings for Victory " in 1943 £10,571 ; " Salute the Soldier " in 1944 £10,785 ; and " Thanksgiving Week " in 1945 raised £14,100 , and also won the boys an extra half-holiday . |
| 4 | The 1986 Peacock Committee , for example , considered the future of television in Britain by invoking parallels with the press and the abolition of pre-publication censorship in 1694 . |
| 5 | PROSTITUTES in ancient Greece advertised their wares by wearing sandals with the words ‘ follow me ’ cut into their soles in mirror writing . |
| 6 | They made it respectable to talk about it by linking grants with the proper adoption of equal opportunity policies . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is possible for one organization to adopt all five simultaneously , by reporting in terms of funds , by comparing actuals with the budget and by adopting cash accounting in Fund 1 , accruals accounting in Fund 2 , and commitment accounting in Fund 3 ! |
| 8 | Putative bile acids were identified by comparing peaks with the retention times of authentic standards and subsequently confirmed by gas liquid chromatography mass spectrometry at the Clinical Research Centre 's Unit of Mass Spectrometry . |
| 9 | This cultic shedding of blood was controlled by men , and consecration to the priesthood was effected by daubing men with the blood of slaughtered animals . |
| 10 | This limitation forces the investor to accept the level of market risk and the only ways in which this can be avoided are to select defensive ( low beta ) securities or to move out of the equities market into alternative investments or to reduce the market influence by combining equities with the risk-free asset . |
| 11 | Many of the sort of examples I have cited so far have been pushed aside by theorising palaeontologists with the disparaging term " facies fossils " . |
| 12 | They were accustomed to drop in on him between ten and eleven in the evening , when he could be an agreeable companion ; and he , who had spent so little of his life with women , surprised his colleagues by making friends with the celebrated actress Dorothy Tutin . |
| 13 | By discussing reasons with the deputy I mean we had the meeting on public relations before Christmas and the scrutiny was promised and nothing 's happened erm , we still soldier on we 're not . |
| 14 | This is not surprising : the Cubans had obtained a useful economic agreement from the Soviet Union , but it was hardly a substantial enough commitment to warrant precipitating an open break with the United States by resuming relations with the USSR . |