Example sentences of "by [v-ing] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An outside cistern could be kept from freezing by hanging a light bulb near it and leaving it on all the time . |
| 2 | The ideologically bankrupt leadership in Beijing now seeks to take advantage of this mood , hoping to dissipate the effect of outside criticism by encouraging a chauvinist rejection of foreign interference . |
| 3 | The program may be run in batch mode by submitting a command file . |
| 4 | The program may be run in batch mode by submitting a command file . |
| 5 | THE landlord of the Bear Inn caused a row by naming a donkey derby he was sponsoring ‘ The Bear Ass Stakes . ’ |
| 6 | She says of the building societies : ‘ How dare they ignore the real needs of loyal customers by pursuing a marketing ploy which only benefits a few . |
| 7 | THE BBC is breaking technical ground next week by transmitting a radio play made with an all-round sound reproduction system . |
| 8 | Such progress exemplifies the way in which a physical geographer can contribute by deriving a world pattern that depends upon the most recently reviewed methods for assessing sediment yield and presenting it in a form that is pertinent to applications in a wide range of disciplines . |
| 9 | But the company is confident the banks will keep it from bankruptcy by accepting a reorganisation plan . |
| 10 | In order to avoid being taken to have accepted a seller 's terms by accepting a delivery note , the buyer may arrange for its warehouse staff to acknowledge receipt of goods delivered by issuing a form referring to its own terms ; alternatively , it may stamp the seller 's delivery note with a receipt referring to its own terms , which may be effective to incorporate them if the stamp is legible . |
| 11 | The Indonesian government has responded to growing environmental criticism of its forestry policies by accepting a World Bank-sponsored plan aimed at promoting " sustainable development " of its forest reserves , which are the second largest in the world after Brazil . |
| 12 | The two ways in which the vendor seeks to reduce its potential liability under the warranties are firstly by producing a disclosure letter and secondly by incorporating a limitation of liability clause in the sale agreement . |
| 13 | You may remember that two or three years ago , we made an attempt to consult you by producing a discussion paper , Woman , Status and Role , Life and Mission , which resulted in the report , Do Not Be Afraid . |
| 14 | They also help , for example , by producing a training newsletter for trainers , and offering general advice , guidance and help for registered training officers . |
| 15 | Fortunately , my sister-in-law Kate has filled the gap in my life by producing a baby brother for my nephew William . |
| 16 | If the language is infinite then the language may be specified by producing a recogniser program . |
| 17 | This article seeks to contribute to this pool of research by suggesting a teaching method which can be used to explain the concepts of cohesion and narrative structure . |
| 18 | She seriously believed that she could gain three pounds by eating a cream cake — and her body valiantly struggled to prove her right ! |
| 19 | You can help by allowing a blood sample to be taken if you are : |
| 20 | The polytechnics have responded to the universities ' attempts to recruit CDP members by demanding a merger deadline — probably April 1993 . |
| 21 | They do this by coating a metal electrode with the polymer and then varying the voltage applied to the metal . |
| 22 | A solvent + non-solvent mixture is used to elute the sample and fractionation is achieved by using a solvent gradient . |
| 23 | This is done by using a logit analysis ( Arber et al. |
| 24 | The movement of the paper must be as precisely controlled as the motion of the gantry in the flat bed type and this is achieved by using a stepper motor . |
| 25 | You can , as a matter of course , help to protect yourself from electric shocks by using a circuit breaker . |
| 26 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 27 | That this was so was demonstrated by using a reference test of APU items which had parameters established in national surveys . |
| 28 | Confidentiality was maintained by using a reference number system . |
| 29 | The window coating problem is considerably reduced by using a foreline trap on the vacuum system , but the trap filter material must be regularly replaced , otherwise pump-down times are increased . |
| 30 | Mary Queen of Scots chose black morocco emblazoned with the royal lion of Scotland ; the French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert had his 50,000 books bound in a morocco specially imported by treaty with the Sultan of Morocco ; one of the d'Urfe family opted for green velvet for his library of four thousand ; Madame du Deffand , friend of Voltaire and Horace Walpole ( to whom she left the care of her dog Tonton ) , endeavoured to immortalise her cat by using a gold stamp of it on the spines of her books ; the three daughters of Louis V each had her own colour with the fleur-de-lis in the centre of each cover — Adelaide red , Victoire olive green and Sophie citron . |