Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The University seeks to include in its courses activities which promote enterprising qualities in its students by encouraging them to take more responsibility for their own learning , setting their own goals and targets through personal assessment and career planning . |
| 2 | Doleys and Arnold ( 1975 ) treated an 8-year-old mentally handicapped boy by encouraging him to copy another child and by reinforcing attempts to sit on the lavatory for longer periods . |
| 3 | Until recently , demand for organic produce has been insufficient to spur most farmers to make the change — but Stephenson & Co , by encouraging us to buy organic whenever possible , badgering supermarkets and greengrocers to offer a wider range of organic produce , aim to encourage more to make the switch . |
| 4 | You can all be scientists today by helping me do some magic science tricks |
| 5 | And think what good you 're doing by helping me fulfil all Uncle 's requirements for getting hold of my inheritance . |
| 6 | Her central role in the family can be continued by helping her provide emotional support and care to other family members . |
| 7 | Almost always , by helping them stay in their own homes — not only by providing the necessary cash , but also by helping them to obtain all the entitlements to which they are due . |
| 8 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 9 | Glasgow offers an excellent Higher Education infrastructure and the Agency 's Technology Programme aims to build on this strength by helping it develop stronger links with key high technology companies . |
| 10 | The Graduate Enterprise Programme can change that by helping you jump each hurdle , rather than letting you in for the high jump . |
| 11 | Small producers have provided larger companies with an important cushion against fluctuations in demand by allowing them to use outside suppliers as shock absorbers . |
| 12 | It aims to protect women by allowing them to SEE potential partners from the safety of their own telephone . |
| 13 | This helps them assess the effects of changing those structures by allowing them make such changes directly through the virtual reality interface . |
| 14 | I done that numerous times today but I 'm trying to do it right by keeping it going all the time when I 'm likely to be in conversation , so there are occasional blank spaces on the tapes . |
| 15 | Our loved ones will often be people we have known over many lifetimes , who have agreed to play a role which will help us to learn and grow — perhaps by recreating a childhood pattern , by rousing our hidden emotions , by challenging us to remain open , honest and loving , or by modelling qualities which we need to develop . |
| 16 | Again , the Conservative government tried to encourage such activity by enabling them to make one-off tax deductible donations of up to 3 per cent of annual dividends . |
| 17 | I also hope it will prove helpful to you , as employees , by enabling you to correct some of the misapprehensions commonly expressed about our industry and its products . |
| 18 | Let us suppose you have decided that regression therapy might be helpful to you , either in overcoming a persistent problem or by enabling you to gain further insight into your own spiritual development . |
| 19 | DesignaKnit can help with this aspect of designing by enabling you to combine any garment created within the SHAPING section with any of the stitch patterns created in the COLOUR section . |
| 20 | However , it is an emotion that leads many of us to play games — either by denying we feel angry , or by squashing it in an effort to be seen as reasonable , easygoing and likeable , or from fear of being rejected . |
| 21 | In chapter seven of The Form , leading his disciple on from the initial perspective of striving to order her inner life as if she should die tomorrow — a challenge which sets the adrenalin running and wonderfully sharpens awareness — he potently reminds her in terms of his own cultural coinage that the world is indeed " charged with the grandeur of God " by instructing her to see all her physical experience in terms of the sacrifice also offered at the Mass : By means of keeping in remembrance this little incantatory prayer at meals and indeed at all times not otherwise taken up with prayer or speech ( " and thynk it noght anely whils etes , bot bath before and after , ay bot when prayes or spekes " , 7.104.39 – 40 ) the disciple will maintain a constant perception of all aspects of sustaining life as a divine gift mysteriously available in time only through the processes of death and resurrection . |
| 22 | These add to his feelings by causing him to feel unwelcome and unsafe in such a dirty , disused place . |
| 23 | The inadequacy of this part of English law was signalled recently in Kowalski ( 1988 ) , where the Court of Appeal upheld an estranged husband 's conviction for indecently assaulting his wife by forcing her to have oral sex with him . |
| 24 | You can apply it to language learning by getting it to produce selected and sorted check lists or lists of words containing a particular sound/symbol you wish to drill . |
| 25 | But now biologists have charted some of their movements by persuading them to swallow tiny radio transmitters or inserting such devices beneath their skin . |
| 26 | But another charity , The Knights of St Columba , has stepped in to put unsold stock to good use by sending it to help needy families in Poland . |
| 27 | This finding was relatable to Stage I regulations which attempted to encourage students to broaden their educational horizons by requiring them to take 12 modules , but to pass only 10 . |
| 28 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 29 | By letting you do this research they 're putting a additional risk on us … |
| 30 | Equally , no purpose would have been served by asking him to approach total strangers in the street , as the mere thought of this would have been so terrifying to the young man that he would probably have given up there and then . |