Example sentences of "to [noun sg] by [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless very dense , the shady conditions produced by most garden trees can be turned to advantage by creating a miniature woodland that will suit shade-loving plants and offer a cool oasis in a hot summer . |
| 2 | This pattern dated originally from the Middle Ages when the towns were able to purchase their right to self-government by paying an impecunious Crown for a charter . |
| 3 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 4 | Our hood added insult to embarrassment by breaking the poppers on its leading edge one after the other until David Vivian found himself circumnavigating the M25 one evening with one hand on the wheel and another holding the hood to keep it from flying off . |
| 5 | Sometimes they would accidentally bring it to crisis by letting a plate or cup smash on the floor . |
| 6 | Chancellor Nigel Lawson justified this on the grounds of the alleged identical nature of gains and income and the advantage of removing the incentive to avoidance by eliminating the boundary between them . |
| 7 | They may be laid to rest by ringing a bell which has been blessed in church when they are sighted , then burying the bell in one stretch of water and the clapper in another . |
| 8 | The declared US objective was to accelerate the transition to democracy by forcing the government of President Fidel Castro Ruz to hold free and fair elections . |
| 9 | On Sept. 24 a specially convened ALP party conference in Canberra reversed the party 's traditional hostility to privatization by backing the government 's plans to allow a degree of competition for Telecom , the state-owned telecommunications authority , and to sell Australian Airlines ( the state-owned domestic airline ) and 49 per cent of Quantas , the national overseas carrier . |
| 10 | The extension of the image in time lends itself to distortion by running the camera faster or slower than 24 fps ( or even backwards , as with the reversed slap across the face in Truffaut 's wonderful film about film making , Day for Night , 1973 ) . |
| 11 | In contrast , the 1980 Transport Act opened the door to competition by easing the procedures needed to obtain a road service licence . |
| 12 | Like going to sleep by contrasting a bed with a pavement , I sometimes find myself thinking that if the worst comes to the worst I can always earn a living by my hands ; I can scrub , clean , cook and sew ; all you have in the end is your labour . |
| 13 | Neither side were keen to take chances , but Harlow brought the game to life by killing a naked jack . |
| 14 | Kenna — full of hope — tried to bring him back to life by applying the magic wild herb known as moly , but the moment the juice touched the body it was turned into a snowdrop . ’ |
| 15 | He said that , besides reducing the tower 's elasticity — which may have prevented it crashing before now — the weight of the steel and lead could lead to disaster by causing the soggy ground to give way . |
| 16 | Henry Gunning , a Cambridge don in the eighteenth century , tells of a college fellow who " had Horace at his fingertips " — quite literally , for he committed the Odes to memory by taking the volume to the privy , getting a poem by heart , then tearing out the page for hygienic uses . |
| 17 | Twice , though , Poiret gives a hostage to fortune by invoking the name of Feydeau . |
| 18 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 19 | ‘ Denounced the isolationists , reconciled the Party to the League by supporting rearmament , and reconciled the pacifists to rearmament by supporting the Covenant . |
| 20 | When all the necessary information has been supplied and any input errors corrected , the request can be sent to LIFESPAN by pressing the RETURN key . |
| 21 | She adds insult to injury by using the phrase ‘ I 'm all right Jack ’ . |
| 22 | Fleetlands , who five weeks ago knocked Alton Bass out of the Trophyman Cup , added insult to injury by taking the point in this league encounter . |
| 23 | At the heart of the mother 's fury was the fact that the teacher was a self-confessed lesbian — and apparently added insult to injury by assuring the mother : ‘ I do n't go for young girls . |
| 24 | It was ironic indeed ( although , of course , no one mentioned it ) that , having risen to power by lambasting the liberal democracies as " anti-Spain " , Franco 's permanence from the 1950s onwards owed a great deal to the political and economic capital invested in Spain by those same nations . |
| 25 | On the question of the UN , the Phnom Penh regime was openly wary of an institution which it felt had legitimized the Khmer Rouge claim to power by allowing the CGDK to occupy the Cambodian seat at the General Assembly [ see p. 37041 ] . |
| 26 | The demand management policies by which it was to be achieved seemed to offer a progressive alternative to socialism by providing the economic background which would allow measures of social betterment to be carried out without socialist control of the economy . |
| 27 | TREE surgeon Robin Teasdill , 34 , stopped himself from bleeding to death by holding the main artery of his leg together for 15 minutes . |
| 28 | In the rise to power of individuals in the closing decades of the Roman Republic many magistrates advertised their right to office by reminding the populace of the virtues of their ancestors through portraits reproduced on the coins they were authorised to mint . |