Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimbledon followed suit a little later by opening up competition to professional tennis players . |
| 2 | As they poured in further canfuls , I encouraged them to work out the amounts mentally by rounding off £1.19 to £1.20 , and taking away 1p . |
| 3 | Devising a sensitive scheme for the immediate follow-up of absentees , either , for example , by telephoning home or by sending out letters to parents/guardians |
| 4 | The link nurses meet regularly , take a special interest in , and strive to enhance , DN expertise in leg ulcer management by feeding back information to all DNs in their patches . |
| 5 | IAN Maxwell staved off the threat of bankruptcy yesterday by handing over £500,000 to Mirror Group pension funds plundered by his father , the late publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell . |
| 6 | We break that trust by handing over power to unelected people without any mechanism for changing their decisions . |
| 7 | On 8 November they would continue to sing for their suppers by reading out newspapers to the less literate and explaining the significance of the Third International . |
| 8 | Neuroscientists may amuse themselves by thinking up objections to homologies between brainstem structures , but this is n't pursued that seriously . |
| 9 | On receiving a referral a social worker can usefully begin by setting out answers to these questions : |