Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A female starts by gathering mud from a patch of wet ground . |
| 2 | On the other hand , accountants can often assist solicitors by gathering information from a target 's premises , and a cross-fertilisation of ideas and experience between the professionals can highlight areas that require specific attention . |
| 3 | After all , there are hand knitters who would have us believe that we are cheating merely by producing knitting on a machine . |
| 4 | It may be said that the social work of the cinema is to naturalized certain sense of individual subjectivity by producing cinema-viewing as a timeless and abundant experience . |
| 5 | That could be further varied by including MPs as a section of the electoral college . |
| 6 | Jaffray started by targeting boroughs with a high black population ( although the children were subsequently selected purely on merit ) . |
| 7 | By demanding payment on a trifling amount , he is remembering what he should have forgotten and forgetting what he should have remembered — that he himself has just been forgiven . |
| 8 | In reply , Gorbachev in his Oct. 19 Supreme Soviet address lashed out at Yeltsin , accusing him of getting " carried away trying to mount a show of strength " by demanding creation of a radical coalition government . |
| 9 | Although they were still deprived by injury of their regular central defenders Ratcliffe and Watson , they managed to defend efficiently by using Snodin as a spare centre-back behind Keown and McDonald . |
| 10 | Learners bring the same expectations to the experience of viewing video in the classroom and we can encourage this positive attitude by using video in a flexible way . |
| 11 | Problems caused by using fuel with a too low octane rating . |
| 12 | Both have begun to produce a sensation of relief by arbitrarily juxtaposing lights and darks rather than by using shading in a naturalistic way . |
| 13 | Retrieval of documents on a search topic , by using terms for a broader or narrower concept , relies heavily both on the searcher 's ingenuity and on any additional relationships that the database indexer might have added to link the natural language index terms . |
| 14 | Most of the analysis of literary deixis has proceeded by using deixis as a kind of stylistic lever . |
| 15 | Turkish officials admitted openly that they hoped to deflect Iranian influence in the region by using television as a propaganda tool for Turkey . |
| 16 | Detailed evidence for the full range of craftsmen at individual small towns is inevitably lacking , but it is possible to assemble a general picture by using material from a wide variety of sources . |
| 17 | By using drama as a part of the learning process , English teachers will be providing experiences for pupils which will help them make an informed choice when considering drama as a subject option , whether for GCSE or as part of a non-examined course in combined or expressive arts . |
| 18 | The fallacy that by using drama as a learning medium we necessarily dilute the drama is exposed by the fact that drama itself is usually greatly enhanced by the work that can accompany it in other curriculum areas . |
| 19 | Glaxo is refusing to comment on Mr Nathan 's departure , but it is thought he erred by drawing attention to a common practice that is seldom discussed . |
| 20 | In the meantime , we will conclude by drawing attention to a number of serious weaknesses in the strategy on which it is based . |
| 21 | At a domestic level , fire can be prevented by maintaining equipment in a safe working condition , for example repairing frayed flexes , avoiding trailing flexes , ensuring that electrical circuits are not overloaded , having fires adequately guarded , and using self-extinguishing devices for movable articles which can be knocked over with relative ease such as oil lamps and oil-heaters . |
| 22 | Rock or mixed ridges ( Figs. 2d and 2e ) : Security here is increased by keeping members on a different sides of the ridge , or by taking natural running belays over spokes and flakes ; 6m to 8m is a reasonable spacing for this . |
| 23 | Apart from an admission , the prosecution have to rely on catching the offender redhanded by keeping observations on a suspect or by British Telecom tracing a persistent caller when he is actually making a call etc . |
| 24 | His method , however , was to preserve peace by keeping Europe in a state of discord and alarm . |
| 25 | If the polymer sample is oriented , by drawing a fibre , or by applying tension to a film , the crystallites tend to become aligned in the direction of the stress and the X-ray pattern is improved . |
| 26 | ( viii ) Pupils should be taught to help the reader by leaving a space between words and by ending sentences with a full stop or question mark and by beginning them with a capital letter . |
| 27 | In the period between the writing of The German Ideology and Capital , Marx made a living in great part by contributing articles to a radical American newspaper , The New York Daily Tribune . |
| 28 | Conducted by Justice Richard Goldstone , the inquiry found that the force used by policemen was " quite immoderate and disproportionate to any lawful object sought to be obtained " , that the police had killed at least 11 people by opening fire on a protest march , and that they had shot at least 127 people who were trying to run away . |
| 29 | In a sense , this inverts the Durkheimian tradition from which it originally stemmed , by representing society as a reflection of style . |
| 30 | While the new narrative is based in part on a broader concept of realism , it also seeks to increase the expressiveness of prose by representing reality in a non-mimetic manner , encapsulating it in the way that poetry has traditionally done . |