Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these findings on the relationship between housing and unemployment are not substantially altered by allowing for the generally lower social status — and therefore higher risk of unemployment — among local authority tenants as both this study and the work of a number of other researchers has shown ( McCormick , 1983 ; Hughes and McCormick , 1987 ; Murphy and Sullivan , 1986 ; an extended bibliography of the general topic of housing and labour market interactions is given in Munro , 1986 ; Labour Force Survey 1983 and 1984 , 1986 , Table 6.6 ; Sullivan and Falkingham , forthcoming , Tables 1 , 2 ) . |
| 2 | Title V rules out for ever a return to the alternative : a degree of foreign-policy alignment reflecting the reality of diverging national interests and a European Community whose members express their friendship and community of interests by cooperating through the most effective available means . |
| 3 | But Prof Boulois said the vaccine would save most lives by protecting against the most common type of pneumonia , which often followed influenza and was widely misdiagnosed . |
| 4 | Propagating roses by seed is more involved , so we will begin by looking at the less complicated vegetative methods favoured by a majority of amateur gardeners . |
| 5 | This chapter will be concluded by looking at the so called " rescue cases " and seeing how the various doctrines apply . |
| 6 | Trace the network of canals which threat their way throughout the city , by narrowboat or by strolling along the attractively renovated towpaths . |
| 7 | As the story of a collapsing school filled the headlines of press , television and radio , many teachers responded by retreating from the more informal approaches to learning which non-selection at 11 had encouraged , into the safety of more traditional methods . |
| 8 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 9 | It is unfortunate that the influential Dudek could only illustrate Leonard 's work by quoting from the admittedly despondent poem ‘ Rededication ’ , without a reference to the many other elements of positive delight that the book — and Leonard 's work elsewhere at that time — demonstrates . |
| 10 | The way in which you concluded your tribute by quoting from the most evocative of his works was truly fitting . |
| 11 | The tawny owl produces the most representative prey assemblage from its habitat , including rare species , but the barn owl preserves the original community equitability more closely by concentrating on the more common species at the expense of missing the rare species . |