Example sentences of "by [adv] [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |