Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By pursuing only known sale opportunities , there is greater chance that the reactive approach will lead an acquiror into a formal sale process , where the vendor has appointed professional advisers to handle the transactions on its behalf . |
| 2 | It would also cheapen owners costs by allowing then to retain VAT on training fees , ’ he said . |
| 3 | It was he , Clasper , who dictated to management the size of the labour force they would require to produce a given number of products , regardless of any figure which management might arrive at by employing accurately measured work standards . |
| 4 | This was done by establishing clearly defined Performance Criteria , Instruments of Assessment and Test Specifications . |
| 5 | When in 1769 at a ball in St James 's palace the French ambassador in London , the comte du Châtelet-Lomont , risked provoking a diplomatic incident by pushing forward to assert precedence over his Russian colleague , Count Chernyshev , he was felt by most contemporaries to have been rude and indiscreet rather than to have shown a proper concern for the honour of Louis XV . |
| 6 | If these are collected before they sink and are placed in a jar of water in a cool airy place , they will start into growth much sooner , and , by providing much needed surface shade , can do much to combat the algal growth that is invariably experienced in early spring . |
| 7 | It can be predicted from the low binding specificity of the 140k DNA binding domain , that the intact 140k protein would have a low promoter selectivity ; 140k could perhaps function by activating sub-optimally utilized RNA polymerase II promoters in a similar manner to that previously suggested for the homologous PRV IE180 protein ( 38 ) . |
| 8 | ONe of these was the notion of compiling human knowledge as sets of ‘ rules ’ that could be manipulated and controlled by an ‘ inference engine ’ , the purpose being to combine human type reasoning with the processing speed of the computer and by doing so to provide output that was similar to that of a human expert . |
| 9 | Explanations of the patterns for the other lawyers have been offered in terms of the degree of organisation of the clientele ( lawyer A ) , dependence on the local civil court ( lawyer B ) , and the need to maintain high status by performing highly regarded translation work , in order to be able to legitimate the practices of important clients . |
| 10 | The lexical procedure works by retrieving previously learned information about the specific letter string being read ( and so can not be used for reading non-words aloud , since the reader has never seen these before ) . |
| 11 | It also fulfils our commitment to our clients by introducing flexibly trained core crew personnel . |