Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For this year 's event to be as successful it is vital that local people support the bilingual play scheme by helping where they can , ’ community enterprise officer Angela Evans said last night . |
| 2 | Just by looking maybe they could pick out those who had , or had n't . |
| 3 | ‘ By going now I will be helping the club to solve their financial problems , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Let us begin by considering how we might obtain a random sample ; that is , one in which each member of the population has the same chance of being chosen . |
| 5 | By doing so we shall become clearer about the problems of nomic conditionals , and hence their solutions . |
| 6 | We have locked them away , in the vain hope that by doing so we could make them disappear . |
| 7 | For by doing so we can change ourselves and thus change the world around us . |
| 8 | ‘ Another and I think more important objective is to credit people for skill and knowledge they currently have and by doing so we will be helping to update the system of qualifications in this country . ’ |
| 9 | ’ Can pay , wo n't pay ’ is shorthand : written out in full , their credo was , ’ We have the money to make our proper contribution to the cost of essential local services , but , because we wish to indulge in political point-scoring , we will withhold that contribution — knowing full well that by doing so we will force local authorities either to increase charges for the great majority of law-abiding citizens , or to cut services . ’ |
| 10 | This too he dragged and tugged out of his pocket , and they both stared at it as though by doing so they could turn it into something else . |
| 11 | There were so many ways in which she could help , and by doing so she might mitigate the fears which crowded upon her when dusk fell . |
| 12 | She bowed her head and shook it , as if by doing so she might rid herself of what she had to say . |
| 13 | With fitzAlan , de Villiers and a chastened but still influential Bishop of Winchester listening to every word , Isabel had answered as best she could in the hope that by doing so she might appease her conscience . |
| 14 | She closed her eyes , as if by doing so she could shut him out of her mind . |
| 15 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 16 | In addition the chargee is not obliged to refrain from exercising his rights merely because by doing so he could avoid loss to the company nor does failure to exercise them when the security is declining in value constitute a breach of any duty that he may owe to the company . |
| 17 | By doing so you 'll not only find a copy of the best C64 games mag in the known universe on your doormat every month , you 'll also be able to avoid all those nasty lager-swilling thugs on the way to the shops . |
| 18 | It 's tempting to squeeze but by doing so you can cause infection and scarring . |
| 19 | You should read as much as you can of European and American drama , both historical and contemporary , for by doing so you will certainly set yourself up well for both drama school training and your subsequent acting career . |
| 20 | By doing so you will begin that vital process of critical analysis and revision at an early stage . |
| 21 | And er so I said she dissolved into fits of laughter so after that she explained it by saying well I used to be a trainer and I know how I got to avoid the stock phrases . |
| 22 | that by coming late they 'd have to just take the entertai I mean , except for the monologue . |
| 23 | Thus , it has now become necessary to justify and possibly improve arts education by showing how it may increase awareness of " man " and " the world " . |
| 24 | In considering drama 's place in topic work , we have to start by thinking how we might dramatise the topic ; and that means seeking out human dilemmas , looking for the moments of change in a situation , or the moments when change might be possible ; we 're looking for those moments when people make choices . |
| 25 | Who believes that by working now we can store up security for the future ? |