Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | BLIND pensioner Dennis Coan has just celebrated six months of wedded bliss to his sweetheart Ellen by presenting her with a wooden rocking chair . |
| 32 | When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859 , Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission 's views which went far beyond what they had in mind . |
| 33 | Back at Stuart Street I cemented my new-found friendship with Doogie and Miranda by presenting them with the leg of lamb . |
| 34 | The cross does not affect God because he has always been loving and desiring our repentance ; it affects us by presenting us with an example of love and sacrifice which overwhelms us because of its outrageous generosity . |
| 35 | It serves as a dual purpose : it performs a musicological service by presenting us with an intelligently planned selection of the kind of harpsichord music current in the Germany in which the young Bach grew up , and it also lets us hear several composers of outstanding merit in their own right . |
| 36 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 37 | Then check your guesses by measuring them with a protractor . |
| 38 | But you can not sense radiation in any other way than by measuring it with a sensitive instrument . |
| 39 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 40 | From the initial idea Watt developed an engine with a cylinder kept hot by surrounding it with a jacket of steam and a condenser kept cool by immersing it in a water bath . |
| 41 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 42 | ( viii ) Pupils should be taught to help the reader by leaving a space between words and by ending sentences with a full stop or question mark and by beginning them with a capital letter . |
| 43 | In the eighteenth century the princes of continental Europe had become absolute by gaining direct control of the armed forces and by allying themselves with the landowning nobility . |
| 44 | They no doubt thought that they were fulfilling their filial duty by providing her with an outing and ‘ treat ’ . |
| 45 | She honestly believed that she was making life easier for Jack , by providing him with a background of home , where not only were meals provided and clothes mended , but his time was also jealously guarded . |
| 46 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |
| 47 | Money enables an individual to delay a potential purchase to the most convenient time by providing him with a way in which to store his purchasing power . |
| 48 | The experience of Aden had enabled Nizan to come to terms with his own personal development by providing him with the opportunity to understand more completely the political , social and cultural causes of his psychological disorientation . |
| 49 | Teachers can help to develop the ideas of any child by providing them with a new range of experiences . |
| 50 | ‘ We 've found , for instance , that we can keep the confidentiality of our client 's affairs intact by providing them with a complete in-house service , ’ Mr Cunningham said . |
| 51 | Their village post office has helped by providing them with a window display of Wild Thing models . |
| 52 | enhance pupils ' motivation and self-esteem by providing them with an achievable goal ; |
| 53 | It is vital that a primary nursing system is given organisational recognition to enable those nurses to fulfil their interpersonal and subsequent information and decision-making roles , by providing them with the ‘ formal authority and status ’ to do so . |
| 54 | Academician Druzhinin held that the object of the framers of the statutes was " to retain in the hands of the gentry estate the maximum quantity of land and to facilitate the gentry 's transition to more profitable farming based on free labour by providing them with the essential capital and reserves of the necessary manpower " . |
| 55 | Formerly known as Operation Raleigh , the charity aims to develop young people by providing them with the opportunity to work on demanding environmental and conservation projects in remote areas of the world . |
| 56 | The County Council has assisted by providing me with a telephone and a personal computer linked to the main frame at County Hall . |
| 57 | Such a definition does not , however , bridge the gap between Britain and the rest of the world by providing us with a substitute for a documentary constitution : it simply shifts the ground , by using the word in an entirely different way . |
| 58 | They can help companies by providing someone with a good knowledge of the latest techniques in management and business . ’ |
| 59 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
| 60 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |