Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive also attended , visibly gleeful that he had spared the school any undesirable publicity by unloading me in the nick of time . |
| 2 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 3 | ‘ If man can not create anything or move anybody , if he can not break out of the prison of his total narcissism and isolation , he can escape the unbearable sense of vital impotence and nothingness only by affirming himself in the act of destruction of the life that he is unable to create . |
| 4 | LEFT At times it may be possible to conserve or reconstruct a site , by incorporating it in the development plans . |
| 5 | Everyone remarks on how aggressive it now is , and it seems Down Under , Hewlett-Packard Co made its point about its new mainframe-killing Emerald servers by launching them in the Fossil Gallery of the Australian Museum , carefully labelling the dinosaur skeletons with jibes at IBM Corp , Hitachi Ltd , Fujitsu Ltd , Amdahl Corp and Digital Equipment Corp : legends such as ‘ ES/9000 — a large body and a small brain led this animal to become extinct ’ . |
| 6 | Tony Meek says it means the world to be in the race and its a dream come true … he gets his dogs ready by walking them in the forest every morning … they have good food … weetabix … honey and milk for breakfast … cooked meat … raw meat and vegatables for tea … he says his dogs have a good chance of winning they 're second and third favourites and he 's not bothered which one does it … |
| 7 | A further consequence of commercialism is the pressure for management to legitimate politically determined goals by clothing them in the language of managerial decision-making . |
| 8 | The seam allowances of the following seams are self-neatened by enclosing them in the seam itself , and are therefore useful when making unlined curtains . |
| 9 | The first allows political realities to be brought about by defining them in the mind first and then applying perception to reality ; the second leads to the belief in supra-personal historical processes , Hegelian determinism and Marx . |
| 10 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 11 | ‘ Property ’ is proved in most cases by describing it in the statement of the person to whom it belongs or in the police officer 's statement . |
| 12 | At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 13 | By riding him in the company of a mature schoolmaster , the youngster will gain confidence from the other horse 's relaxed carriage . |
| 14 | The dynamic nature of phase equilibria can be understood by considering them in the light of the kinetic theory . |
| 15 | The reactions will generally not recur if 90% of the white cells are removed , and this can be achieved either by using a filter at the bedside or by removing them in the laboratory . |
| 16 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 17 | The hot Cyprus autumn moved from one week to the next , and Zacco prepared for his forthcoming triumph by installing himself in the moated citadel built by his great-grandfather at Sigouri , ten miles west of the besieged Famagusta . |
| 18 | Future Perfect aims to help people approaching or over the age of 50 deal with the transition from their main career by pointing them in the direction of new opportunities . |
| 19 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |
| 20 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 21 | This was borne out by observing him in the classroom , where he was sitting quietly working , in contrast with the much less controlled behaviour of other children in this small group . |
| 22 | For myself I do not care , but I do not want armed retainers terrifying my household by arresting me in the dead of night . ’ |
| 23 | When asked why he could not enter , the guard replied , ‘ Oh , you can by dropping something in the box ’ . |
| 24 | P'raps 'e knew 'e was in the wrong by provokin' me in the first place . |
| 25 | ( Crawford 's ultimate suspension from school came two weeks before he was due to take his leaving exams and he gained two CSEs by taking them in the hostel he was staying at . ) |
| 26 | In deciding where we should go we have to transfer ‘ ownership ’ of the direction by involving everyone in the decision . |
| 27 | They were devalued , if you like , by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 28 | And I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottoms streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school , when the , they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams , and so they tended to look for out-of-school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfactions , and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things , and in the mixed ability situation this certainly did not happen in the same way . |
| 29 | I think really this comes from the problem of those pupils in the streamed situation , in the bottom streams in particular , who found that they wanted alternatives to school when they were in an inferior position in the school , they were devalued if you like by finding themselves in the bottom streams and so they tended to look for out of school things , alternatives to school , from which to gain their satisfaction and they would look to the pop media , to fashion , to football , to these kinds of things . |
| 30 | He had punished Gionesca by putting him in the horse trough and that was it . |