Example sentences of "by [verb] [pers pn] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except in the case of the Yakuts and the Turks and Mongols of the southern steppes , their economy was largely based upon the use of reindeer — in the first place by hunting wild herds during their seasonal migrations , and later by domesticating them to a greater or lesser extent . |
| 2 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 3 | While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen . |
| 4 | Durability , comfort , less fatigue and increased ball control are some of the reasons why it has become a Grand Slam surface , and why En Tout Cas decided to endorse its stated policy of choice and availability of surfaces , by bringing it to the UK . |
| 5 | In this section the operation of ambiguity tests will be illustrated by applying them to a selection of difficult cases . |
| 6 | The principles can be demonstrated by applying them to the design of a stepped shaft where a maximum stress concentration factor has been specified . |
| 7 | However , the approach to such analysis will now be set out and the method illustrated by applying it to a trivial case for which the solution is already known from section 4.4 . |
| 8 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 9 | The ecological significance of these precipitation figures in terms of soil moisture may be judged by relating them to the amount of moisture lost through evaporation and transpiration over a given period . |
| 10 | We want to lay emphasis on the concept of community education : it represents a whole attitude to education which makes science , maths and all the other subjects students learn , meaningful by relating them to the real experiences of life outside school . |
| 11 | Within this context of greater freedom for all schools , we will end the two-tier system created by Grant Maintained Schools and City Technology Colleges by returning them to the strategic planning framework of the local elected education authority . |
| 12 | And if you 're leaving the boat at moorings , do n't forget to either take the engine home with you , LOCKED in the boot of your car , or secure it by chaining it to the mast or inside the cabin . |
| 13 | The man showed his gratitude by recommending him to the Bishop for ordination . |
| 14 | It may help me more indirectly by alerting me to the fact that I may be wrong , and forcing me to reason again to double check my conclusion . |
| 15 | Pioneered by National Children 's Home and co-funded in partnership with Cambridgeshire council , the scheme homes to deter children as young as five from crime by alerting them to the long-term consequences to their victims and the effect of crime on their own future . |
| 16 | We can not afford any longer to waste the abilities of 80 per cent of all the children in the maintained system by relegating them to a ‘ worse ’ form of education . |
| 17 | Indeed there is a sense in which the clarity of his spiritual and theological doctrines inhibited clarity on political issues by relegating them to a position of relative unimportance : they led Anselm to believe that the system of joint secular and ecclesiastical responsibility for the functioning of the Church was as acceptable as any other . |
| 18 | The court heard that Mr Farmer , who was shot four times , died saving his father Robert by pushing him to the floor and shouting a warning when he spotted the gunman . |
| 19 | Incoming values are stored by adding them to the appropriate linked list . |
| 20 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 21 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 22 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 23 | He writes : Molla Hacihasanzade , who became kazasker for twenty-five years continuously through purposing the turning away and hindering of those capable of achieving renown by directing them to the path of kaza [ kadilik ] and of those who were spoken of as outstanding in excellence among their contemporaries by impeding their passage through the ranks ; and who had by this stratagem , over so long a period , found safety from the crush of those ulema who , by right of learning and excellence , might have passed through the ranks and become rivals to him … |
| 24 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 25 | But I still say , it seems a shame that they are prepared to make money by selling it to a Tescos of all people to er really make money so they can move somewhere else ! |
| 26 | This problem can be overcome by subjecting them to an external force , strong enough to alter their spatial distribution by a significant amount in a short time . |
| 27 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 28 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 29 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 30 | The plant can be anchored to the bottom by tying it to a piece of wood , roots or rock . |