Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships .
2 This study overcomes these problems by collaborating on a reciprocal basis with people who are inside the system .
3 The therapeutic potential of these genetic advances has been indicated by recent gene transfer experiments by Woo in an inbred strain of mouse with phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency ( S L C Woo , paper delivered at annual meeting of European Metabolic Group ( Milupa ) Copenhagen , May 1991 ) .
4 If by submitting to the one guilt he could evade all suspicion upon the worse count … he is quite shrewd enough , I fancy , to make the choice and quite durable enough to abide it .
5 This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) .
6 It scuttles out of office doorways with a desperateness that is quickly dispelled by sucking on a white , smoking cylinder .
7 ‘ This cheapens the value of human life by pandering to the gruesome , ’ says Californian sociology professor Tod Griffin .
8 In 1957 , Paisley and Wylie were charged with causing a disturbance in Donaghadee by preaching through a loud hailer .
9 Canes can be made more secure by fastening to a horizontal wire .
10 The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre .
11 The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business .
12 That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks .
13 In these hot summer months prudent Japanese girls suppress the potential faux pas of erect nipples that could spring up from a cool blast of the air-conditioner by sticking on a handy pair of ‘ Nipples ’ .
14 By sticking to a small range of products , they simplify distribution .
15 By sticking to a small basic unit ( 100 or 120 hours of student effort ) delivered across terms ( three per year , and with the development of a summer school , potentially four ) Oxford has established a pattern of regular assessment , and regular award-making examinations boards , that depends upon an intensity of academic staff commitment that other institutions would find difficult if not impossible to implement within the current framework of practice and conditions of service .
16 And indeed I would submit that Leeds would find it difficult to actually accommodate the migration assumption which is w would be implied by sticking to the revised plan , mid-year estimate figure .
17 By sticking to the same route , your dog will become familiar with its surroundings , and will be far less likely to end up lost even if it strays away from you .
18 We tried to avoid such adventures by sticking to the deeper channels and harbours , but some guests demanded we anchor in the shallower lagoons where the rays glided above the bright sand and the grey snappers schooled and the barracudas patrolled .
19 Trambone is in the key of C and the main theme ( repeated in bars 1 to 8 and 18 to 25 ) is most easily played by sticking with the simple chord shapes of C , Am , F and G , which I have diagrammed below .
20 How much does society lose by producing at the free market equilibrium point E rather than at the socially efficient point E ' ; ?
21 He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’
22 The Treasury recognized the additional expenditure implications of this planning defect by including in the White Paper a financial allowance ( normally positive ) called the relative price effect ( RPE ) .
23 In Argentina , a near-moribund system is being revived by franchising to the private sector .
24 Lawrence E. Walsh , the special prosecutor in charge of the Iran-contra investigation , responded to the move by suggesting for the first time that Bush was a " subject " of his inquiry .
25 Aim for a margin of safety by allowing for a further two to three minutes ' ‘ sudden death ’ extension after that .
26 The Group believed that the Children Bill further eroded the already inadequate rights of poor families by allowing for the progressive transfer of parental rights to foster-parents and by widening the powers to dispense with parental consent to adoption .
27 Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction .
28 As expected formation of the low mobility complex was inhibited by the addition of antibody to Oct-1 confirming that it contains Oct-1 whereas the antibody had no effect on the formation of the high mobility complex indicating that it is formed by binding of a cervical protein distinct from Oct-1 ( Figure 3 ) .
29 These restriction fragments were end-labelled and used in GMSA to study DNA bending induced by binding of the GST-pou[c] fusion protein to the abovementioned motifs .
30 ( 44 ) calculated an average bending angle of 37°±8° induced by binding of the Oct-1 POU domain to these motifs .
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