Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . " |
| 2 | Following toasts to the University , to Convocation and to our Guests , Mr Orme rounded off the evening by regaling us with some reminiscences of his early days in Parliament , where he has served for Salford West from 1964–1983 and Salford East since 1983 during which time he has held several posts in Government and on the Opposition front bench , and going on to more recent experiences whilst visiting Eastern Europe as the moves towards democracy gathered strength . |
| 3 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 4 | Such passages did little damage , however , compared with those in which again and again he would use these occasions to exalt the status of the King by equating it with that of the kings of Israel . |
| 5 | Despite his desire to secure the dominance of holism by equating it with social scientific explanation , Miller 's argument only sustains a weaker claim ; for his distinction between holism and individualism suggests that there is a place for both types of explanation . |
| 6 | Another approach , which we are testing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , is to eliminate the wild , dangerous population of anophelines by replacing it with another more tractable variety . |
| 7 | tone your breasts by spraying them with alternate bursts of warm and cold water then smooth on lots of body lotion to keep them looking their best . |
| 8 | Here , in the 103/4 , a much more extended frequency range is reproduced by supplementing it with one of KEF 's other major innovations , the coupled-cavity woofer system . |
| 9 | Unfortunately for Cubitt he had to have a gallery but he made it far more acceptable by supporting it with pointed arches . |
| 10 | The fact that it is a salamander can be experimentally demonstrated by feeding it with thyroid extract . |
| 11 | ‘ Positive discrimination ’ in favour of boys was operated in that context for many years , yet such ‘ discrimination ’ in favour of girls — such as by providing them with extra help in their mathematics , or the opportunity to make up lost ground in CDT — is generally frowned upon . |
| 12 | Some thought that those poor could be rescued by providing them with religious and moral education , vocational training , and better housing . |
| 13 | By providing them with detailed information they should be less likely to offer impractical advice . |
| 14 | They make the organizational labyrinth less treacherous , make it easier to find the other team members , help groom the baton before passing it along , assist management by providing them with mature ideas for review and generally increase the odds of getting a hearing for ideas within the organization . |
| 15 | Please help us to give by providing us with this work . |
| 16 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 17 | When they went into his house , ‘ where their best entertainment was his quiet company ‘ , his wife continually interrupted their conversation by busying him with domestic duties . |
| 18 | Visual information helps us interpret the audio signals we receive by reinforcing them with additional clues : a beckoning finger reinforces the words " Come here " ; at the same time the expression on the face of the beckoner can give us a clue as to the nature of the summons . |
| 19 | The fact that the efficiency of rivets was in no way improved by capping them with precious metal provides another indication of the limitations of material factors in accounting for technical innovation . |
| 20 | A team of wildlife biologists from the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) has been to able study the Javanese rhinoceros , considered the world 's rarest large mammal , by recording them with hidden cameras . |
| 21 | The Emperor Charles V , whilst compelled to tolerate Protestants within the Empire , compensated for this by treating them with increasing severity within his hereditary dominions . |
| 22 | So could malaria parasites be destroyed by assaulting them with free oxygen radicals ? |
| 23 | If he could win support for domestic expansion by coupling it with other proposals , he was only too eager to do so . |
| 24 | But before turning to Buid relations with neighbouring lowlanders , I will bring out the specificity of Buid attitudes toward violence and aggression by comparing them with other Philippine groups who have a less negative attitude toward these phenomena . |
| 25 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 26 | And by combining them with any of the rather healthy range of foods from Weight Watchers from Heinz , your picnic basket will be the only thing bursting this summer . |
| 27 | The diagnostic yield at laparotomy can be improved by combining it with preoperative or peroperative angiography to identify the bleeding segment of bowel and with on table endoscopy to find the lesion . |
| 28 | The supporters of modern algebra within the ATAM , who had come into contact with the pure mathematicians in various European-wide meetings , such as Royaumont and the ICSlTM conferences , gradually made ‘ modern mathematics ’ more acceptable to many school teachers by combining it with those elements of their original mission concerned with Piagetian ideas , and proposing ‘ intuitive ’ and ‘ experiental ’ approaches to its study . |
| 29 | You can also use your yarn for weaving , which by combining it with another fine yarn , will lighten , darken or brighten it up considerably and leave you with a beautiful fine fabric . |
| 30 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |