Example sentences of "by [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the puritan lobby do a disservice to their cause by lumping everything under the one name , just as the temperance lobby forfeit respect by classing a Christmas sherry with a vodka bacchanal . |
| 2 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 3 | So when it becomes clear that a criminal case is not proceeding as anticipated — a trial is not scuppered by lobbing something into the ring — there are discreet discussions between learned friends in chambers , many exchanges of the phrase ‘ I 'm much obliged ’ and finally the jury is summoned back . |
| 4 | We have compared the expression levels of VP6 and NS1 proteins in alternative sites by cloning one into the Bam HI site and the other in the Spe I/ Sma I sites or vice versa . |
| 5 | The desired behaviour is obviously recordable by using something like a diary . |
| 6 | They do this by adopting something like a structuralist understanding of signification systems , treating them as changing structures of oppositions and differences , where obvious meanings are always shadowed by the meanings they exclude . |
| 7 | Ryle wishes not to dissipate the contrast between mind and matter by absorbing one by the other but by showing that the contrasting of the two is as illegitimate as contrasting ‘ She came home in a flood of tears ’ and ‘ She came home in a sedan-chair ’ . |
| 8 | Instead I have to start by describing something of the unease I feel about its use and study within the literature , and gradually move toward a position from which I can either offer a definition of labourism or construct boundaries within which it exists and operates . |
| 9 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 10 | Yet more clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent clearly , perhaps , by describing something as an ontological existent we are in effect committed to accepting that this something , at any given time , can be rightfully claimed to belong to one , and only one , out of each pair of mutually exclusive classed in any universe of discourse in which this existent features as a topic . |
| 11 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |
| 12 | Secret As soon as the first four figures — 1978 are written down , you obtain the final result by subtracting one from the right hand figure and adding it to the front . |
| 13 | They can help companies by providing someone with a good knowledge of the latest techniques in management and business . ’ |
| 14 | Evangelism does not simply happen through persuasive individuals , but through communities of believers , who give credibility to the proclamation , by demonstrating something of the reality of what they speak . |
| 15 | ‘ Why , you 'll start by asking everyone on the Woodfield Estate , and if we still have n't found him , we 'll work our way through the rest of town . |
| 16 | Again , as last week , try to be as physically active as possible during the next 24 hours , avoiding temptation by doing something outside the kitchen . |
| 17 | But if you 're prepared to learn how to do the wiring and to do the ‘ building ’ work ( and redecorating ) involved , it 's not difficult to improve the lighting arrangements in your home by fitting new permanent lights , and by doing something about the switching set-up . |
| 18 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 19 | The big companies surely miss a chance by doing nothing for the club . |
| 20 | When asked why he could not enter , the guard replied , ‘ Oh , you can by dropping something in the box ’ . |
| 21 | And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance . |
| 22 | In deciding where we should go we have to transfer ‘ ownership ’ of the direction by involving everyone in the decision . |
| 23 | Start by standing one behind the other to form a straight line . |
| 24 | Only by supplying something outside the poem — claims for intention , the ostensible participation of the language in recognisable ( and thus containable ) poetic conventions , the equation of Astrophil with Sidney and his love with Penelope Rich ( the sequence 's Stella ) and then a testing of the language 's claim against their history — could the referential quality of the poem 's language be critically maintained . |
| 25 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 26 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |