Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 2 | An old , glazed porcelain sink can be transformed into a water garden by coating it with an artificial stone mixture . |
| 3 | The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE . |
| 4 | The Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) aims to stabilise currencies by keeping them within an agreed band . |
| 5 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 6 | It does this by disguising itself as an aphid , in order to avoid being detected by the ants . |
| 7 | Totalization in the first Critique , Lévi-Strauss suggests , can only create its meaning by selection through such metonymic devices of exclusion , that is , by founding itself on an — ethnocentric — absence . |
| 8 | However , it is an emotion that leads many of us to play games — either by denying we feel angry , or by squashing it in an effort to be seen as reasonable , easygoing and likeable , or from fear of being rejected . |
| 9 | Mrs Molina , who won 55% of the vote in the run-off , triumphed by painting herself as an outsider and a reformer . |
| 10 | Obviously , I could make better use of the space by replacing them with an 8 x 12ft monster , but that was too expensive £500 , or more … and I certainly did n't have that much going spare . |
| 11 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 12 | Deism frees this bound-in monadic god by releasing him as an immanent but impersonal spirit . |
| 13 | The Freeman coding can be further enhanced by supplementing it with an indication of what proportion of the whole character each vector represents . |
| 14 | When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859 , Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission 's views which went far beyond what they had in mind . |
| 15 | The cross does not affect God because he has always been loving and desiring our repentance ; it affects us by presenting us with an example of love and sacrifice which overwhelms us because of its outrageous generosity . |
| 16 | It serves as a dual purpose : it performs a musicological service by presenting us with an intelligently planned selection of the kind of harpsichord music current in the Germany in which the young Bach grew up , and it also lets us hear several composers of outstanding merit in their own right . |
| 17 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |
| 18 | a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization … |
| 19 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 20 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 21 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 22 | Most EQ units have line inputs which are not suitable for direct microphone inputs , but these low level signals can be matched by feeding them via an amplification stage , a facility which is provided on some mixers . |
| 23 | The sound from a TV receiver or a monitor can be improved by feeding it through an external speaker . |
| 24 | And of course you risk yourself still further by positioning yourself under an overhanging edge — you could finish up at least partially buried if there is a cave-in . |
| 25 | They no doubt thought that they were fulfilling their filial duty by providing her with an outing and ‘ treat ’ . |
| 26 | enhance pupils ' motivation and self-esteem by providing them with an achievable goal ; |
| 27 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
| 28 | Inevitably , since there are only twelve tissue salt preparations , an attempt was made with varying degrees of success to enlarge their scope by mixing them in an effort to cover other symptomatologies . |
| 29 | Particularly , we have seen that it is often financed by revenue , either explicitly ( by recording it as an asset with an equal figure of capital discharged ) or implicitly ( by expensing it ) . |
| 30 | In both cases , seed the filters by running them in an existing balanced set-up for a couple of days before a buying trip . |