Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 2 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 3 | Now you know the rules , set a good example to other drivers by using them at all times ; who knows , they may even copy your driving style and do it right too ! |
| 4 | Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to test one set of certainties by opposing them to another . |
| 6 | These three contrasting ways of approaching the same data can be conveniently illustrated by applying them to that contemporary social phenomenon : student unrest . |
| 7 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 8 | Following toasts to the University , to Convocation and to our Guests , Mr Orme rounded off the evening by regaling us with some reminiscences of his early days in Parliament , where he has served for Salford West from 1964–1983 and Salford East since 1983 during which time he has held several posts in Government and on the Opposition front bench , and going on to more recent experiences whilst visiting Eastern Europe as the moves towards democracy gathered strength . |
| 9 | I ca n't think of anything else so I 'll finish by thanking you for all your hard work . |
| 10 | Such passages did little damage , however , compared with those in which again and again he would use these occasions to exalt the status of the King by equating it with that of the kings of Israel . |
| 11 | Some of those subsidies went into persuading Daimler-Benz to take over most of Germany 's aerospace industry ( see page 87 ) , by guaranteeing it against some future losses risked in making Airbuses . |
| 12 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 13 | Another approach , which we are testing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , is to eliminate the wild , dangerous population of anophelines by replacing it with another more tractable variety . |
| 14 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 15 | TIP : Test unknown materials by soaking them for several days . |
| 16 | He was at times ordered to aid and supervise the royal huntsmen by leading them to those parts of the forest where the game was most plentiful , o supplying them with trained hounds , and seeing that they did not drive the deer out of the forest or continue their hunting longer than their instructions warranted . |
| 17 | An animal acquires the behaviour pattern by imitating it from another . |
| 18 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 19 | They were arguing about whose fingernails were longest , thinnest and sharpest and thought that the only way to see would be by testing them on each other 's bony arms . |
| 20 | The society is also urging the Association of Chief Police Officers to improve records of horse thefts by marking them as such , rather than just as thefts of livestock . |
| 21 | He was somehow managing to make her begin to doubt her own words — simply by subjecting her to that look of dark unbelief . |
| 22 | Please help us to give by providing us with this work . |
| 23 | Her position is that the person who calls on Osiris or Krishna or Buddha with a pure heart receives the Holy Spirit within his own tradition and not by abandoning it for another . |
| 24 | We can split domestic labour 50–50 , but I 'm the one who 's going to feel defined by doing it at all . |
| 25 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 26 | We set it by comparing it with some reference time . |
| 27 | And by combining them with any of the rather healthy range of foods from Weight Watchers from Heinz , your picnic basket will be the only thing bursting this summer . |
| 28 | The supporters of modern algebra within the ATAM , who had come into contact with the pure mathematicians in various European-wide meetings , such as Royaumont and the ICSlTM conferences , gradually made ‘ modern mathematics ’ more acceptable to many school teachers by combining it with those elements of their original mission concerned with Piagetian ideas , and proposing ‘ intuitive ’ and ‘ experiental ’ approaches to its study . |
| 29 | You can also use your yarn for weaving , which by combining it with another fine yarn , will lighten , darken or brighten it up considerably and leave you with a beautiful fine fabric . |
| 30 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |