Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bloody well ca n't achieve that by sticking them in dull concrete abortions ! |
| 2 | Like the frottole they were music for a wide public and , as with the frottole , the printing-presses multiplied their popularity by producing them in alternative forms . |
| 3 | These individual ‘ building blocks ’ are called phonemes , or in some instances allophones , and by using them in various combinations any word can be constructed . |
| 4 | More often , two or more rhythms are used to give not only a more varied rhythmic interest but also a bigger canvas by using first one rhythm , then another , or by using them in various combinations and expansions . |
| 5 | The children were being encouraged to learn about sentences by using them in real contexts . |
| 6 | Then Edgar appears , disguised as a poor knight whose ‘ name is lost ; /By treason 's tooth bare-gnawn , and canker-bit ’ ( 121f. ) , and by defeating him in single combat , completes the exposure of Edmund , the bastard being displayed as a hypocrite and pretender ( 162–74 ) , who in a fair contest — according to Renaissance optimism about the superiority of right — is bound to be defeated by the legitimate . |
| 7 | Drain and refresh immediately by steeping them in cold water . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All this will be done privately because there is nothing to be gained by castigating him in public . |
| 10 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 11 | It will be best to distribute the strings evenly throughout the texture by writing them in extended harmony ( with occasional double-stops when these are easily manageable ) . |
| 12 | Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other . |
| 13 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 14 | In music of this century , composers have cultivated melodic ‘ growth ’ by choosing a specific group of notes , and then , by presenting them in different orders or different rhythmic shapes , created melody which proliferates from what may be only a very limited stock of initial material . |
| 15 | However , when she was schooled surreptitiously , without her realising it , by riding her in huge paddocks and along country roads ; and asking her to change legs , diagonals , and paces in unfamiliar places , her anxiety was kept dormant . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some Indian railways attempted to cope with the great pressure of third-class passengers by installing them in double-decker carriages , but these had soon to be abandoned because they proved to be unsafe and top-heavy . |
| 18 | The same was true of James Joule 's experiment in which water was warmed quantitatively by stirring it in special apparatus : a definite quantity of mechanical force in the clockwork produced a definite quantity of heat-but the context of this was argument about the nature of heat , and Joule seemed to have proved that it was motion of particles rather than a substance . |
| 19 | The advice on page 11 , number 6 , is helpful : most people devise mnemonics which help them to remember particular words by saying them in special ways . |
| 20 | It trivialises sexual relationships by treating them in mechanistic fashion , its purpose being ‘ the stimulation of sexual desires in the reader or viewer ’ . |
| 21 | You can learn how to be a better decision-maker , how to plan and organize things efficiently , how to relax , how to take your mind off your problems by engrossing yourself in other things . |
| 22 | However , he managed to keep a certain degree of sanity by exercising himself in regular bucking sessions at about four o'clock every afternoon . |
| 23 | Why , then , are some historians so busily proliferating new historically specific ‘ data types ’ by implementing them in proprietary software while the computer-literate researchers in disciplines are giving generic definition to their eccentric datum so they may be implemented on any platform which permits user-defined objects ? |
| 24 | Cane syrup is a light treacle , first made in the days of the plantations when sugar was refined by boiling it in huge , black , iron vats . |
| 25 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |
| 26 | TENDERISE tough meat by marinating it in any kind of citrus juice or by spooning juice over the meat after piercing it with a fork . |
| 27 | Clean cutlery : give forks and spoons extra sparkle by standing them in soapy water an ammonia , then rinse . |
| 28 | I think the idea is that you just , they show you who 's doing the speaking by putting it in that little bubble from the person and then they write it again at the bottom . |
| 29 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |
| 30 | At clause level , a speaker announces the topic of his/her message by thematizing it , that is , by putting it in initial position . |