Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 2 | The best way of doing this was by attaching themselves to one of their country 's missions abroad , serving in it in a junior and normally unpaid capacity and thus acquiring experience of diplomatic methods and routines as well as of a foreign country . |
| 3 | ended Ushaw recent good run by defeating them by 63 runs . |
| 4 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 5 | At first it might appear simple to unravel a particular doubt by relating it to one of the seven broad categories , but first appearances are deceptive . |
| 6 | It tackles this small set of problems and issues by addressing them in two localities — the old port of North Shields and the new town of Cramlington . |
| 7 | In the one 's complement method , any pattern whose sign bit is one represents the negative of a number obtained by replacing one by zero and zero by one in each bit position . |
| 8 | Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other . |
| 9 | Here , in the 103/4 , a much more extended frequency range is reproduced by supplementing it with one of KEF 's other major innovations , the coupled-cavity woofer system . |
| 10 | In an attempt to rid the game of endless scrums , pushover tries etc. , the NZRFU has proposed to do away with the five-metre scrum by moving it to 10 metres from the goal line . |
| 11 | You can make oval quenelle shapes with the mixture by moulding it between two teaspoons . |
| 12 | Commenting on Labour 's public expenditure plans , The Economist said : ’ It has tried to respond to its familiar dilemma — of wanting to be a high-spending party without being a high-taxing one — by splitting itself in two . |
| 13 | ( v ) Adhere the cells on to their glass coverslips by centrifuging them at 500 g for 10 min at 20-C in a HB-4 rotor of a Sorvall RC-5 centrifuge . |
| 14 | Once you have the technique in hand you can use 24 stitch repeats by punching them into 12 stitch repeat cards , provided that they are a repeat of either four stitches , six stitches or 12 stitches . |
| 15 | Then , fairly close to transmission , Verity Lambert decided to tighten the dramatic structure of ‘ Planet of Giants ’ by truncating it from four episodes to three . |
| 16 | Tektronix says it designed the XP10T series of five terminals for high bandwidth and very high reliability — this has been achieved by placing everything on one board including the graphics , X , the local network logic and the local network cable connectors : there are no edge connectors . |
| 17 | Her picture on the cover of Elle magazine , when she was still a schoolgirl of fifteen from a strict bourgeois family , led her to Roger Vadim , who let her out of her birdcage by marrying her in 1952 despite parental reluctance . |
| 18 | The sample was obtained by selecting one in five of the 42 per cent of people who left school in Scotland in 1977–8 with few or no qualifications ( i.e. without at least a grade O in the Scottish Certificate of Education ) . |
| 19 | Could she have missed it by mistaking it for one of the panelled wardrobes ? |
| 20 | The Hungarian Democratic Union of Romania ( HDUR ) , alleging that the census form was designed to weaken the Hungarian minority by dividing it into four or five ethnic groups , condemned the census , and called on Jan. 14 for an alternative census of the Hungarian population to be carried out . |
| 21 | She had just slammed the car door by hooking it with one foot , when Mrs Frizzell , with a similar brown-paper bag of groceries , came round the nearest corner on foot , having been to the local store . |
| 22 | By restricting yourself to seven or less you will enhance your chances of making the report effective . |
| 23 | Quality and efficiency in grain distilling will be secured by concentrating it in two locations , at Leven and Glasgow , and investment in malt whisky production will focus on 27 strategically important distilleries . |
| 24 | ICI has introduced a new way of recycling toxic waste by processing it through seven reed beds planted next to one of Europe 's largest chemical plants at Billingham , Teeside . |
| 25 | Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 26 | France wanted to cancel Argentina 's tour this year , eventually compromising by reducing it to three matches only because the Argentine RU said ‘ If we ca n't come to France , you ca n't come here ’ . |