Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HOSPITAL technician killed his heavily pregnant wife by hanging her from a garage roof beam , it was alleged in court yesterday . |
| 2 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 3 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 4 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 5 | There is no choice about the way through ; if you enter you can only earn the right to emerge by submitting yourself to a series of confrontations with the work . |
| 6 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |
| 7 | If Superstores own-brands the coffee it sells , it can avoid liability by labelling it with a statement such as ‘ Made for Superstores by Coffee Fellers Inc . ’ |
| 8 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 9 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 10 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 11 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 12 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 13 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 14 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor has recognised the outstanding form of Middlesbrough goalkeeper Stephen Pears by including him in a B squad for a friendly in Czechoslovakia next Tuesday . |
| 15 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |
| 16 | At the end of the opera , Parsifal heals Amfortas by touching him with a spear , and Kundry is able , at last , to die . |
| 17 | Give hands an overnight treat by coating them with a rich conditioner and then donning a pair of lightweight vinyl gloves ( such as HandiMates , £1.09 for a box of 10 ) . |
| 18 | The desired behaviour is obviously recordable by using something like a diary . |
| 19 | All these , we know , are inversions of the truth , yet by using himself as a reference point , Iago can convince people to the stage where they accept his view unquestioningly . |
| 20 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 21 | The immersion programme in Canada ( described in Stern 1978 , 1983 ; Swain 1978 , 1982 ; Swain and Lapkin 1981 ) involves the teaching of French contingently by using it as a medium of instruction for other subjects on the curriculum . |
| 22 | In this instance , you must finish off the raw edge of the hem either by overcasting or , for a really professional finish , by binding it with a fine bias binding . |
| 23 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 24 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 25 | Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis . |
| 26 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
| 27 | SHOCKED Colin Creasey saved a kitchen fitter 's severed thumb by keeping it in a pack of frozen peas . |
| 28 | As he knelt at his mother 's feet , the sovereign invested her son with the symbols of office , ‘ by girding him with a Sword … by putting a Coronet on his head … and a Gold Ring on his finger … and also by delivering a Gold Rod into his hand , that he may preside there and may direct and defend those parts to hold to him and his heirs … for ever ’ . |
| 29 | Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context . |
| 30 | In this section the operation of ambiguity tests will be illustrated by applying them to a selection of difficult cases . |