Example sentences of "by [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair is in a stretched state when wet , a wide-tooth comb reduces breakage by gently passing through hair . |
| 2 | As a feminist I did n't invert their bad habits by only talking to women — this book is about women and men , though it takes the standpoint of women as its reference point . |
| 3 | I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times . |
| 4 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |
| 5 | We can , however , get down with the children and start a process of learning , discovery , which can last a lifetime if you like , finding out what different people believe , finding out how other people cope , maybe by just talking to grandparents who 've experienced the war , asking them how they 've coped . |
| 6 | Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it . |
| 7 | Hopefully , the revision of the UCP presently underway will correct this problem by clearly distinguishing between transhipment with respect to traditional ocean bills of lading and transhipment with respect to multi or inter-modal carriage . |
| 8 | Brutus also begins to show his fear of Caesar by repeatedly speaking of Caesar as being a venomous reptile . |
| 9 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 10 | With Black Fury Warner Bros had just gone a little too far by even referring to strikes and labour problems at a time of mounting industrial tension but the popular and critical reception to the movie showed that the company were not wrong to believe that they had the technical ability and the actors to make films whose reality would be appreciated . |
| 11 | Or you can add a little food to the unstocked tank , and by regularly testing for nitrites , monitor the gradual increase of the bacteria as they ‘ feed ’ on the wastes and multiply . |
| 12 | The second document that came out as a consultation document , simply led with the evidence that you 've pe that you achieve by simply suggesting to people there was only a yellow route . |
| 13 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |
| 14 | In considering the right of the individual to know the law by simply looking at legislation , it is a fallacy to start from the position that all legislation is available in a readily understandable form in any event : the very large number of statutory instruments made every year are not available in an indexed form for well over a year after they have been passed . |
| 15 | As late as 1933 , however , the Oxford English Dictionary did not recognise the existence of the single word ‘ planning ’ , though it was by then coming into use on the Continent as an alternative to totalitarianism , particularly in the fields of economic management and social policy . |
| 16 | He has also distinguished himself by twice voting against Bill Clinton 's economic package . |
| 17 | As the most informative booklet points out , he only avoided the later excesses of the Nazis by conveniently dying in July 1933 . |
| 18 | It was too late to run away then , though , as she fought desperately for composure by mentally going through Cara 's lists of questions , Fabia discovered that she could not remember one of them ! |
| 19 | He was cutting his journey fine and it was only by actually jogging from Friedrichstrasse , and feeling a fool for doing so , apart from almost breaking his neck by slipping on the icy pavement , that he arrived at his office before the ominous red line was drawn . |
| 20 | Rory Scott recalls dancing with Diana in front of the then Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , and embarrassing himself by continually standing on Diana 's toes . |