Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger of writing when you are abnormally tired — as well as bitterly cold — is that you can too easily lose control by digressing too far from the important things that need to be expressed free of any other clutter . |
| 2 | The Substitute hid the faintest of smiles by drawing very deliberately on his cigar . |
| 3 | The sun disappears , leaving behind its glow on the horizon as if the colour is in my head , burnt in by gazing too long at the red sphere . |
| 4 | The mirror is then placed on top of the straight-edge ( or a thin timber batten ) and lined up with it , tapped lightly to ‘ spread the cut ’ , and broken by pressing firmly down on the two sides of the cut . |
| 5 | It was the Foreign Office 's reluctance to upset the entente with France by pressing too hard on the Congo issue which first convinced Morel of the baneful effects of traditional diplomacy , and provoked him to develop a coherent critique of what he later called ‘ the intrigues and imbecilities of professional diplomats . ’ |
| 6 | Rooks protested the disturbance by flapping angrily up from the roadside . |
| 7 | She has found , though , that by writing so closely about what happened to her she has , in a way , lost some of her own past . |
| 8 | In seven tightly reasoned chapters , the author lays out the traditional interpretation of Gris as it was advanced by Apollinaire , Kahnweiler , Maurice Raynal , Zervos and other colleagues and critics who had known the artist and followed his development , and then proceeds to question their assumptions by looking more closely at the works themselves than any other scholar had previously done . |
| 9 | We start this chapter by looking more closely at the legal distinction between these two categories of temporary worker and go on to examine whether , in many cases of agency working , it is a meaningful one in practice . |
| 10 | But we begin by looking more closely at the problem of externalities . |
| 11 | This can be illustrated by looking more closely at the economic , political and culturalideological spheres . |
| 12 | The subtle effects of centuries of propaganda will not be easily overcome , but we could make a start by looking more honestly at the reality of war and stop being blinded by the glamour . |
| 13 | The disparate perspectives of holism and individualism can best be appreciated by looking once again at individualism , and at the intuitions sustaining it . |
| 14 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 15 | The question is how do you break into the cycle and make that happen , and I think the answer is , as I said , in two ways — one by making teachers more aware during their period of initial training , either at college or at university or polytechnic , and secondly by looking very carefully at the amount and type of in-service training erm that goes on for teachers once they 've left college and are in the schools . |
| 16 | ‘ Demonstrate , Nicholson , ’ Mr Foggerty said hopefully , but Nicholson demonstrated by swimming away back to the deep end , mostly underwater where he was hard to see . |
| 17 | Hallstein 's Commission was widely blamed for provoking the 1965 crisis by pushing too hard for more powers for itself and the Parliament . |
| 18 | When you put the board in the water to launch , punch the board through any advancing waves by pushing hard forwards on the rig with one or both hands on the mast . |
| 19 | Bands like DAF ( ‘ Do The Mussolini ’ ) , Yugoslavia 's Laibach ( makers of ‘ totalitarian art ’ ) , and England 's Nitzer Ebb practically invite misunderstanding by flirting so heavily with images of power , fascism and totalitarianism . |
| 20 | Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity . |
| 21 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 22 | The modern tournament is now won by a side carefully garnering its resources for two or three vital games — witness Italy in 1982 — rather than by going all out for emphatic victories in each match . |
| 23 | Try to counter nervousness by getting right back to basics . |
| 24 | I seem to have surprised myself by getting well ahead with this and I outline current plans below . |
| 25 | By distinguishing too sharply between the divine Word and the divine Spirit the Church has lost a most important biblical perspective . |
| 26 | And when the frantic , plunging ride was over , ecstasy a fading quiver of memory and her swollen lips no longer muttering his name over and over in a delirium of rapture , he broke her heart all over again by moving right away from her , the distance between them , now that passion was spent once more , saying everything about their relationship . |
| 27 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the conclusion must be that , down to 1982 , Mrs Thatcher was anxious not to give many hostages to fortune by breaking too openly with the one-nation traditions of Butler and Macleod . |
| 29 | He brought our conversation to an end by alluding once more to the past ; and in comparing the difference between his present achievements and the tribulations that had led up to it ( though he did not put it quite like that ) , he appeared to coin on the Spot an Epigram which , so far as I know , he never committed to print but of which there are echoes in The Family Reunion . |
| 30 | So if I can open the meeting by saying that we obviously welcome questions this evening and points of view and I would like to open the meeting by asking quite clearly about how you er see best plan for the theat theatre in future and how it 's programme of facilities for the future should be programmed and planned . |