Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 2 | ‘ This cheapens the value of human life by pandering to the gruesome , ’ says Californian sociology professor Tod Griffin . |
| 3 | The pair celebrated the news yesterday by parading in the lavish costumes specially designed for them for Dick Whittington at the Empire Theatre . |
| 4 | The principal can also give assistance to the agent by helping in the commercial negotiations between the agent and important customers , helping with special discounts or credit arrangements in order to secure business . |
| 5 | That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks . |
| 6 | And indeed I would submit that Leeds would find it difficult to actually accommodate the migration assumption which is w would be implied by sticking to the revised plan , mid-year estimate figure . |
| 7 | Trambone is in the key of C and the main theme ( repeated in bars 1 to 8 and 18 to 25 ) is most easily played by sticking with the simple chord shapes of C , Am , F and G , which I have diagrammed below . |
| 8 | How much does society lose by producing at the free market equilibrium point E rather than at the socially efficient point E ' ; ? |
| 9 | He commandeth you to weep ; and that princely One , who took up to heaven with Him a man 's heart to be a compassionate High Priest , became your fellow companion on earth , by weeping for the dead ( John 11.35 ) . ’ |
| 10 | The Treasury recognized the additional expenditure implications of this planning defect by including in the White Paper a financial allowance ( normally positive ) called the relative price effect ( RPE ) . |
| 11 | In Argentina , a near-moribund system is being revived by franchising to the private sector . |
| 12 | The Group believed that the Children Bill further eroded the already inadequate rights of poor families by allowing for the progressive transfer of parental rights to foster-parents and by widening the powers to dispense with parental consent to adoption . |
| 13 | Then turn to the opposite direction by stepping with the left foot about a shoulder 's width to the left , thus ending up in a left forward stance in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | These restriction fragments were end-labelled and used in GMSA to study DNA bending induced by binding of the GST-pou[c] fusion protein to the abovementioned motifs . |
| 15 | Of more sinister significance the binding of human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) during infection of T lymphocytes is mediated by binding of the viral gp120 protein to CD4 , the immunoglobulin-like T cell co-receptor . |
| 16 | Some are funded by grants-in-aid ( such as the Training Agency ) ; some by statutory levy ( such as the Horserace Betting Levy Board ) ; some by annual grant ( such as the Health Education Council ) ; some by departmental vote ( such as the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work ) ; some by drawing on the National Loan Fund ( such as New Town Corporations ) ; and some by charges for services ( such as the Agricultural Marketing Boards ) ( Rhodes , 1988 , p. 129 ) . |
| 17 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 18 | After evidence came to light that some members of the Society had committed suicide by following methods described in the booklet , the Attorney-General sought to dissuade the Society from further dissemination of the Guide by applying to the High Court for a declaration that its publication amounted to the crime of aiding and abetting suicide . |
| 19 | This may be done by deeming a certain level of turnover during any such period or by reverting to the open market rent . |
| 20 | It can be proved that he was the holder by examining the trade licence itself for the defendant 's name , by an admission from the defendant and by checking with the issuing authority . |
| 21 | When you send items overseas , make sure that they will be accepted in the country they are going to by checking in the Royal Mail International Guide . |
| 22 | Encouraging local managers to use their entrepreneurial and leadership qualities by contributing to the corporate planning and decision-making structure ; in other words , they can influence the future of services if they can convince colleagues and seniors that such change is justified across the organization , but they can not do whatever they want without authority |
| 23 | Sometimes it is by praying over the sick person . |
| 24 | AFTER SEVERAL more drinks we decided to test the theory by walking through the aforesaid precinct . |
| 25 | That way , by walking between the long tables as if on a tour of inspection , they could view the prospects without embarrassment . |
| 26 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 27 | She had almost forgotten herself by walking to the big front door , and giggled inwardly at the shock that she would have given Mrs Parker if she had done so . |
| 28 | On January 24 , Francois Guillani , de Cuellar 's official spokesperson , fanned speculation within UN headquarters that de Cuellar was under intense pressure to resign , by announcing over the public address system that ‘ It is untrue that the Secretary General is considering stepping down ’ . |
| 29 | Frenular bristles are absent or small in these insects but there is sometimes a more distally placed series of costal spines ( the pseudofrenulum ) on the hind wing which functions independently of the jugum by pressing against the anal area of the fore wing ( e.g. Sabatinca ) , or a series of interlocking hairs on the basal half of the hind margin of the fore Wing and the fore margin of the hind wing ( e.g. Mnesarchaea ) . |
| 30 | Gazelles , no less than cheetahs , are subject to cumulative selection , and they too will tend , as the generations go by , to improve their ability to run fast , to react swiftly , to become invisible by blending into the long grass . |