Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He measured the number of turns along his spiral by passing along it a fine stiletto , each winding making an audible ‘ ping ’ . |
| 2 | The approach I am going to adopt now applies to the present section only and acknowledges the fact that a superconductor is not an " ordinary " magnetic material ; it can not be described by a " magnetic " constant , by assigning to it a certain value for |
| 3 | Only the United States had no state airline , and believed that airways should be open to free market capitalism : ‘ In general , the Chicago conference can be described … as an attempt by the United States to capitalise on its overwhelmingly strong bargaining position in international aviation by securing for itself a near monopoly of long-haul air transport . ' |
| 4 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 5 | And they 're all they 're they 're all patterns within lots of similarities , by going through it a few times like that and when you when you 've done that go through again say and with and everywhere you could write the whole lot out again |
| 6 | It aims at winning over a man by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment . |
| 7 | It aims , as we have shown , at winning a man over by the power of love and gentle persuasion and by arousing in him a sense of justice rather than by forcing him to submit out of fear and embarrassment . |
| 8 | He wooed her by sharing with her a delicious baobab fruit . |
| 9 | Let me illustrate this by introducing to you a man whom I shall call Tom , who was a member of my congregation in Durham . |
| 10 | Radar is a technique whereby an object is investigated by beaming at it a short pulse of radio waves some of which are scattered by the object and picked up by a detector . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |