Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous chapters have emphasised how the mass media may contribute indirectly to the potential for public disorder , first , by helping to create an ideological climate which justifies and encourages the use of repressive control tactics against dissenting groups ; and second , by ‘ sensitising ’ the police and public to the possibility that disorder might occur . |
| 2 | In addition , this company also contributed to the Association 's efforts on behalf of the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal by helping to arrange a Royal Film Gala night at their Shaftsbury Avenue cinema . |
| 3 | Robinson contributed by helping to found the Central Statistical Office in 1941 . |
| 4 | These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries . |
| 5 | But by appearing to separate the royal family from most of the rest of the aristocracy , the Queen 's advisers have ensured the Windsors ' survival in a mature democratic society . |
| 6 | Here Butcher 's union put up a spirited resistance against the " adventurer from Sunderland , doing his utmost to cause a separation or division , by endeavouring to form a rival association " . |
| 7 | Sharif retaliated by refusing to let the four go and furthermore supported the charges laid by the Punjab police against leading PPP members in the state , including Salman Taseer , deputy leader of the PPP in the provincial assembly . |
| 8 | The Compagnie Luxembourgeoise , which had the exclusive right to operate Luxembourg television , behaved abusively by refusing to allow a particular undertaking broadcasting time for their advertising . |
| 9 | In a series of press conferences on July 17 , European G-7 leaders complained that the USA and Japan had blocked moves to facilitate large-scale financial assistance to the Soviet Union by refusing to increase the Soviet Union 's borrowing limit from the EBRD [ see also p. 38314 ] or to endorse full Soviet membership of the IMF . |
| 10 | Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 . |
| 11 | As the Leader of the Opposition has joined us , perhaps he will use his influence on the four members of his party who voted last week to cover up the truth by refusing to permit the Select Committee on Employment to conduct an investigation into the true consequences of a national minimum wage . |
| 12 | He said he wanted to eliminate the ‘ schlechtes polnisches zeug ’ , the bad Polish stuff , and he claimed that the Poles had brought this upon themselves by refusing to accept the new Prussian authority with good grace . |
| 13 | In fact , the government ‘ took on ’ AT&T in the 1970s , and it was the Reagan administration of the 1980s — the villain of your piece — that secured real relief and brought on the phenomenal competition enjoyed today by refusing to accept the cosmetic settlement that had been negotiated by the Carter administration . |
| 14 | Discriminatory policies merely encourage established foreigners to employ marginally corrupt locals , thus adding a further disincentive to new entrants by conspiring to maintain the unsatisfactory status quo . |
| 15 | We have set about this task by seeking to extend the earlier analysis , and much of the discussion takes the form of modifying the earlier general equilibrium equations . |
| 16 | Headlined ‘ This Sick Idea ’ , the leader recorded the fact that Mr Clay was unaware of what Mrs Thatcher was trying to do and asked whether she had not realised that ‘ by seeking to reward the only general secretary who treated her with kid gloves , she would end up by blackening his name ’ . |
| 17 | It would also help convince them that politicians have decided not on the basis of the best orchestrated campaign but by seeking to occupy the high moral ground , wherever it might be found . |
| 18 | Should they reach an accommodation with traditional balance-of-power thinking by seeking to build an anti-fascist alliance ? |
| 19 | Anywhere outside a Communist state — and perhaps the time looks like coming when even that qualification will be superfluous — this is done by seeking to secure the largest possible return on capital . |
| 20 | The Labour party is trying to prop up its popularity in Scotland by seeking to impose a similar solution on the rest of England . |
| 21 | After the tax had been abolished and the boycott lifted , Rank compounded his incompetence by deciding to keep the best playdates for his mix of low-budget featurettes and big-budget pictures . |
| 22 | By ceasing to ignore the awkward case of women — as most of the traditional theorists did we can often see what has gone wrong with our thinking in other , apparently more straightforward cases . |
| 23 | By attempting to imitate a human cognitive process , however , we are straying into the notoriously difficult sub-discipline of computer science known as artificial intelligence , and anyone working in this field would agree that many of its problems have yet to be solved . |
| 24 | Long Talking Bad Conditions Blues ( 1979 ) makes a virtue out of the condition of ‘ accelerated shatter ’ he had located in his earlier novels by attempting to link the diverse aspects of his text within a verbal flow , a ‘ stream of language ’ introduced by a twelve-page unpunctuated single sentence . |
| 25 | Why visit the gardens or the pagodas of Suzhou , when much more can be gained by attempting to buy a 1950s style mannequin . |
| 26 | Among those who share this view , some would seek to create change by attempting to influence the dominant values of the society . |
| 27 | Cloud flying , particularly in shower clouds , can be quite a dangerous pastime and on many days it would be totally irresponsible to risk losing a club glider by attempting to climb a large cloud . |
| 28 | By attempting to discredit a few respected scientists in the eyes of the public they try to cast doubt upon the standing of the whole scientific community . |
| 29 | Both Haketa and the NSDAP sought to resolve and dissolve the internal German class and social conflicts brought about by attempting to maintain a feudal nobility and at the same time to industrialise a newly formed country by projecting their energy into false imperialist and colonial solutions in their eastern borderlands . |
| 30 | In 1259 he incurred Henry 's wrath by attempting to subject the royal free chapels in his diocese to episcopal control , a dispute which rumbled on until Roger 's final capitulation in 1281 . |