Example sentences of "by [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |
| 2 | He called Isherwood Parsnip in that novel because of his face , presumably , and Auden was Pimpernel because he had saved Thomas Mann 's daughter from the Gestapo by contracting a Platonic marriage . |
| 3 | The " culture " offered by a liberal education could thus control nature by generating a higher form of " life " — by teaching " the art to live " . |
| 4 | Both , however , suggest that the ‘ set ’ towards the message leads to a renewed perception of reality , by generating a renewed awareness of the forms of signification in which reality is articulated . |
| 5 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 6 | Just make sure you balance it the next day by enjoying a bigger portion of vegetables and fruit . |
| 7 | Indeed , we were most disappointed he squandered an opportunity to improve local government services by encouraging a superficial debate over boundaries . |
| 8 | Similarly , banks could encourage the general public to withdraw less cash : for example , by making time deposits more attractive than sight deposits or by encouraging a greater use of credit cards . |
| 9 | Option II presented on page 20 of the Policy Issues Paper , on which draft MPG6 is based , seeks to reduce the proportion of aggregates required from land won supplies in Wales and England by encouraging a dramatic growth in new supplies from coastal super quarries . |
| 10 | Option II presented on page 20 of the Policy Issues Paper , on which draft MPG6 is based , seeks to reduce the proportion of aggregates required from land won supplies in Wales and England by encouraging a dramatic growth in new supplies from coastal super quarries . |
| 11 | For instance by encouraging an active interest in the environment in which we live , and by supporting groups or promoting cleaner technology , less pollution and less waste , we 're ensuring the quality of life for future generations , and also the potential for future business opportunities . |
| 12 | Even though investments earned less overall , by financing an increasing proportion through borrowing at declining real interest rates , capitalists helped maintain the profitability of shareholders ' funds . |
| 13 | If one is a tyrant and a bully , attempting to assert one 's authority , to dominate people , to humble those in one 's power , what does one accomplish by labelling a poor prophet a king ? |
| 14 | The President underlined her determination to pursue the coup plotters by naming a former police chief , Alfredo Lim , as the new director of a greatly strengthened National Bureau of Investigation . |
| 15 | You can overcome this by knitting a doubled rib as follows : * |
| 16 | If you have mastered cut and sew , this can be used for other shaping , for example by knitting a straight sleeve and cutting it to the shape required . |
| 17 | The no. 1 right hand light must be on ( as well as the jacquard light when you start knitting ) and you have to start by knitting a single row in the background colour from right to left , then change to the second colour . |
| 18 | The left-armer denied himself a sixth by wasting a cowardly bouncer on Malcolm . |
| 19 | We all need to give form to our lives by pursuing a common goal with others for a purpose which has social value ; in other words , we all need worthwhile occupation or , more prosaically , work . |
| 20 | As only intelligent and articulate people can , they are deftly defending the Disney premise by inventing a new genre : the Architecture of Entertainment . |
| 21 | In 1647 he implemented a suggestion for a universal ‘ character ’ made by Francis Bacon [ q.v. ] ( 1605 ) , and later by John Wilkins [ q.v. ] in Mercury ( 1641 ) , by inventing A Common Writi ng , i.e. a system of symbols which , like Arabic numerals , represented words which could be realized in any language . |
| 22 | At this very time the German H Grassmann was generalising complex numbers still further by inventing an unlimited number of arithmetics of n-tuples . |
| 23 | Parents are encouraged by seeing a perceived expert being as firm as they would like to be and not being put off by the resulting tantrum . |
| 24 | A baby which cries when left alone is not satisfied when any other member of the species comes along to comfort it , but may be more upset by seeing a strange person . |
| 25 | The NME succumbed to The Smiths success by parading a lengthy Smiths interview by Biba Kopf , a writer not known for his enthusiasm for the Smiths . |
| 26 | In any case it soon demonstrated its reluctance to accept the discipline of the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising , by organizing a major strike on the twentieth anniversary of the arson attack on the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on 21 August . |
| 27 | They responded to the killings by organizing a six-day stoppage , demanding the withdrawal of military personnel from plantations and requesting the presence of international observers at forthcoming local elections . |
| 28 | Of those participating in the ballot on Feb. 19 , 63 per cent voted to end the bitter nine-month strike by accepting a four-year contract which guaranteed the continued subsidized health care for workers — a central issue of the strike — whilst giving the employers increased flexibility in production . |
| 29 | Peabody Coal , a subsidiary of Hanson , is suing Costain , claiming that it broke the terms of an agreement by accepting a higher offer for its Australian coal mining business from Altus Finance . |
| 30 | In the same way the sales manager can optimize his launch date to ensure earliest returns on the new product by accepting a small risk that he will not be able to deliver on the promised date . |