Example sentences of "by [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hair is in a stretched state when wet , a wide-tooth comb reduces breakage by gently passing through hair . |
| 2 | I sent up the accent and made the audience laugh by suddenly relapsing into cockney at odd times . |
| 3 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |
| 4 | Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it . |
| 5 | Hopefully , the revision of the UCP presently underway will correct this problem by clearly distinguishing between transhipment with respect to traditional ocean bills of lading and transhipment with respect to multi or inter-modal carriage . |
| 6 | Lucy had just made tea and was boiling the kettle again for another cup ; by now supplies of milk and sugar were exhausted and tea had to be drunk without either . |
| 7 | Their pathological hatred of the Roman church continued to be fuelled by the deeply entrenched belief that the pope was the Antichrist , a conviction that was by now accepted without question by conservative bishops and godly Puritans alike . |
| 8 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 9 | Then the pig 's head , by now crammed with cash , was sliced and served with hot pickled cabbage and rice cake . |
| 10 | Even the two youths who had attacked him had by now disappeared from view . |
| 11 | For one thing , the sheer range and historical variation of the sites where encounters between ‘ white ’ and ‘ other ’ have taken place and the immense variety of specialized and popular discourses that have operated in these encounters have by now put into circulation a multitude of selective images . |
| 12 | Also throughout the branches of physical geography it was necessary to convince members of other disciplines that physical geographers had a contribution to make and this had to be done by showing what could be done rather than by simply stating in advance that a physical geographer had much to contribute . |
| 13 | In considering the right of the individual to know the law by simply looking at legislation , it is a fallacy to start from the position that all legislation is available in a readily understandable form in any event : the very large number of statutory instruments made every year are not available in an indexed form for well over a year after they have been passed . |
| 14 | In the second half , Chapman imagines a return visit to late-period Lennon , by then wracked by heroin and primal emotional pain . |
| 15 | As late as 1933 , however , the Oxford English Dictionary did not recognise the existence of the single word ‘ planning ’ , though it was by then coming into use on the Continent as an alternative to totalitarianism , particularly in the fields of economic management and social policy . |