Example sentences of "by [v-ing] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Limit to what you can get by gobblin' a guy 's raw brain . |
| 2 | The user should claim the expense by completing a Form SA1 in the normal way . |
| 3 | The user should claim the expense by completing a Form SA1 in the normal way . |
| 4 | The prisoners who built it left their own rather macabre memento by incorporating a hangman 's noose into one of the rafters , with a nearby door leading into empty space and a four metre drop . |
| 5 | In response to growing criticisms of its economic policy , from Mr Giscard d'Estaing among others , the government has decided radically to revise its original economic package , announced barely a fortnight ago , by launching a record FFr40 billion state loan , of which FFr25 billion will be used to create jobs and generally give the economy a shot in the arm . |
| 6 | His father died when he was three years old , leaving his mother to support and bring up seven children , providing for her family by opening a greengrocer 's shop and later a modest boarding house . |
| 7 | There are different ways of enforcing payments such as a direct deduction from wages or income support , or by seizing a person 's possessions . |
| 8 | I and in Glasgow and we attempted to break some of the barriers you 're talking about by holding a girl 's week and part of the girl 's was to run a five-a-side tournament and we were also breaking down territorial barriers , we had girls from different housing schemes within the east end of Glasgow , but I feel the opportunities do n't exist ! |
| 9 | We can understand this by considering a person 's reflection in a mirror which is experienced as a re-figuring and deepening of the reflected image : the depth of the reflection , for example , shows that the reflection is not the mirror itself , although , clearly , without the mirror there is no reflection . |
| 10 | A vessel equipped with Flettner rotors gains in manoeuvrability as lift is diminished by slowing a cylinder 's speed of rotation . |
| 11 | I want to improve the performance on my 1973 Range Rover by installing a US V8 . |
| 12 | Similarly threemorbidly obese female patients defined by having a BMI >40 , aged 17 ( MO1 ) , 52 ( MO2 ) , and 70 ( MO3 ) years , also not known to have any pancreatic or other gastrointestinal diseases were studied whose BMI were 41.4 , 53.4 , and 58.1 . |
| 13 | By comparing a writer 's choices against other choices with the same sense , " what the writer might have said but did n't " , one has a greater control over the notion of stylistic value . |
| 14 | Here , students who have already graduated , can become qualified teachers by taking a year 's course which leads to the award of PGCE . |
| 15 | BORIS BECKER spoke here yesterday of how he tried to find the perfect antidote to New York by taking a week 's holiday in East Germany after winning the United States Open last month . |
| 16 | Grandparents could not count on natural loyalty : rather ; they had to positively create their roles by winning a child 's affection . |
| 17 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 18 | Their eldest son Henry rekindled the family 's desire for travel and adventure by marrying a solicitor 's daughter , Mary , and travelled out to Guyana in South America as a barrister . |
| 19 | The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys started a longitudinal study in 1971 by selecting a I per cent sample from the Census returns . |
| 20 | Intelligent quotient ( IQ ) ratings are calculated by dividing a child 's mental age by his or her chronological age . |
| 21 | Children learn in many ways ; by watching and copying , by asking questions and by following a parent 's example . |