Example sentences of "by [adv] [v-ing] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shulamith Firestone undoubtedly did everyone a great service by vigorously extending this notion to women , and pointing out the absurdity of men 's viewing themselves as totally detached individuals in relation to the rest of society , while still expecting to go home to a wife who would always have their dinner hot for them in the evening . |
| 2 | I mean by just doing this sort of settling of accounts is that creating it for them ? |
| 3 | The idea that the only way of coping with the desuetude of the age , its profound certainty that everything has been said already , is by openly proclaiming this fact as itself the new fact , the idea that the only way of selling your article as original is to declare that it is repro , seems to run up against an ethical objection in a writer like Palandri , however sophisticated his own literary apparatus undoubtedly is . |
| 4 | The effect of a change in the relative spot prices , the present value of dividends and the risk-free interest rate on the spread basis is given by partially differentiating this equation with respect to ( S L - S s ) , D L , D s and r to get : The effect of an increase in the difference in the spot prices or an increase in the dividends on the asset in which a short futures position has been taken is ( given F L > F s ) a widening of the difference between the prices of the underlying assets . |
| 5 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee revealed its own view of the matter by firmly rejecting this proposal and recommending instead that the maximum penalty for non-consensual buggery of a male should be increased . |
| 6 | They have capitalized on the move towards self-catering by heavily introducing this element into their operations and have also benefited from the 1983 and 1984 slight trend back towards domestic holiday taking . |