Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] through [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | There is an inflation of pride , through intensified awareness of one 's own power by seeing oneself through the subject 's eyes . |
| 3 | David Anderson has been acquitted on a jury 's not proven verdict of murdering Raymond Mullan three years ago by stabbing him through the heart with a hunting knife . |
| 4 | They have no gills , but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails . |
| 5 | If the compounds are toxic , though , the off-gases may have to be collected and treated , probably by passing them through a granular activated carbon absorber . |
| 6 | McAdam 's system , which involved his surveyors checking the size of stones by passing them through a two-inch ring , was soon adopted by the turnpike trusts . |
| 7 | This enables softening to be done simply and economically with waters of a wide range of hardness by passing them through a bed of the granulated material . |
| 8 | The sound from a TV receiver or a monitor can be improved by feeding it through an external speaker . |
| 9 | ( One formed the impression that the Government was genuinely anxious about the precariousness of its policies at this time and was afraid that determined opponents might be able to sabotage these policies by questioning them through the news media . ) |
| 10 | People , he argued , evaluate themselves by viewing themselves through the eyes of others . |
| 11 | His killer , a toothless Prussian sergeant , grinned at Sharpe , then cleaned his curved blade by running it through a handful of his horse 's mane . |
| 12 | Aston 's Newport Pagnell works is like a room at the Science Museum : on a given day in any given corner , two men will be shaping a bonnet-lid by rocking it through a hand-press ; in another , a third-generation Astonian will be hand-beating an aluminium ( Astons have always been aluminium ) wing . |
| 13 | It can be programmed by machine code , by taking it through the motions , or by keyboard . |
| 14 | By putting them through the assessment and certification process we are demonstrating that confidence , as well as showing our commitment to quality assurance . |
| 15 | Then if I want to put a bit of ‘ plate ’ or ‘ room ’ on , I 'll either put a bit on when I 'm recording it , by putting it through an effect , or using the guitar player 's FX . |
| 16 | The author undermines ‘ adult ’ notions of what is normal and natural and obvious by showing them through the eyes of a young boy who is trying to puzzle it all out . |