Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A HOSPITAL technician killed his heavily pregnant wife by hanging her from a garage roof beam , it was alleged in court yesterday . |
| 2 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 3 | As well as a means of ensuring that interoperability and compatibility between different vendors ' Tuxedo-based products , USL wants the club to clearly identify these products by stamping them with the Tuxedo brand . |
| 4 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 5 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 6 | I do n't think anyone will make a fortune by patenting them as a method of space travel , but they have become a very exciting area of research . |
| 7 | During the Second World War , for example , a number of government initiatives stimulated thinking about the resettlement of disabled people into open employment by channelling them through a period of ‘ industrial rehabilitation ’ . |
| 8 | There is no choice about the way through ; if you enter you can only earn the right to emerge by submitting yourself to a series of confrontations with the work . |
| 9 | GDA , as part of the SEN Scottish Defence Initiative , is pro-actively addressing the needs of defence dependent companies by assisting them in a programme of new market identification and diversification . |
| 10 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clive also attended , visibly gleeful that he had spared the school any undesirable publicity by unloading me in the nick of time . |
| 13 | The main light was behind him , but I could still see the shadows on his face ; they were more marked than ever , and I had the foolish illusion that I could remove them by stroking them with the tips of my fingers . |
| 14 | If Superstores own-brands the coffee it sells , it can avoid liability by labelling it with a statement such as ‘ Made for Superstores by Coffee Fellers Inc . ’ |
| 15 | It will decide on April 29 whether the Daily Express and the Independent invaded family privacy by naming her as the girl in the broadcast . |
| 16 | Babies probably start by seeing everyone as an aspect of their mother and call them ‘ Mama ’ or something very like it . |
| 17 | " I tell you what — I do n't think I can do any more by seeing him at the moment , but I think you should cut out his meat completely for a week or two . |
| 18 | There is an inflation of pride , through intensified awareness of one 's own power by seeing oneself through the subject 's eyes . |
| 19 | It rescues psychoanalysis from the confusions it had been led into by seeing itself as a natural science , like physics or chemistry . |
| 20 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 21 | Attach the first fabric panel by centring it between the outside edge of the first vertical batten and the middle of the second one . |
| 22 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As a result she is not allowed by her mother to supplement the family income by helping her in the fields , since to be seen doing it would mean she had become an illiterate villager again . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 27 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 28 | • Put out any burning clothes by smothering them with a thick cloth or rug , but not something synthetic which would melt in the heat . |
| 29 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor has recognised the outstanding form of Middlesbrough goalkeeper Stephen Pears by including him in a B squad for a friendly in Czechoslovakia next Tuesday . |
| 30 | By politicizing his text in this way Sukenick runs the risk of linking authorial production with political manipulation , but he regularly plays down the privilege of composition by including himself as a minor character within his narratives . |