Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parties enjoyed freedom to contract or not to contract and both parties exercised that freedom by contracting on the terms set forth in the written agreement and on no other terms . |
| 2 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 3 | By kneeling on the pavement , we could see the two furnaces being stoked but this innocent pastime was cut short by the boilerman who swore at us ! |
| 4 | If the rocks in your tank suffer from all-smothering algae I have found they can be kept clear by scrubbing off the algae then putting them in the oven or under the grill until they are thoroughly dry . |
| 5 | It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end . |
| 6 | He had even tried to stretch himself by hanging from the limb of a tree by his hands until the skin on his palms was blistered . |
| 7 | Reduce the distance to the ground by hanging from the wall , look down to your landing space , and as you drop , push yourself away to avoid bashing into the wall . |
| 8 | John puts himself at risk by hanging from the bannister ( line 13 ) . |
| 9 | Scrambling to his feet , he tested the floor at his feet by stamping with the heel of his uninjured leg . |
| 10 | Indeed the party insults the English , the only ethnic group in which it holds a majority , by hinting to the Scots that the party might be compelled to consider giving the English their democratic entitlement of seats if the Scots have devolution . |
| 11 | A situation like this can be covered very succinctly by panning from a shot of the mother to a view of the child who is receding into the distance . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm really keen to play again , ’ said the 40-year-old Scot , whose Ryder Cup place was put in jeopardy by crashing into a flower pot three weeks ago and badly bruising his sternum . |
| 13 | The baton is , however , necessary at the Opéra , where large choruses are frequently sung in the wings … it must not be thought that such a distant group of singers can hear the orchestra , however numerous : each person sings in his neighbour 's ear , and I have sometimes surprised myself by singing off the beat and incorrectly conducting [ conduisant ] the chorus surrounding me . |
| 14 | Now , facing the hangman on an unrelated murder charge , Nofomela made a desperate attempt to save his life by singing like the Vienna Boys Choir . |
| 15 | Many have learnt musical skills and earned an income by singing in a church choir , Like J. S. Bach , the choirmaster or cantor of the past usually taught his choristers and pupils harmony and counterpoint , as well as instrumental skills . |
| 16 | One does this best by collaborating with the child , by discussing his or her difficulties and successes , and by talking about the contents of the book . |
| 17 | Moreover , it would be very easy for Jones to check out the heat by collaborating with an electrochemist . |
| 18 | This study overcomes these problems by collaborating on a reciprocal basis with people who are inside the system . |
| 19 | The group communicated their ideas to the public by collaborating on A Pocket Dictionary of Foreign Words Which Have Entered the Vocabulary of the Russian Language , a work whose purpose was to discuss not foreign words per se but rather the social and political phenomena to which many of them related . |
| 20 | As far as I understand from the gossip there 's nothing 'll come out of it by goin' to the polis ; it 's got to come from Parliament . |
| 21 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 22 | Divorce , prostitution and women 's emancipation were designated as outside the parameters of political discourse , and MPs customarily prefaced speeches on these topics by apologizing to the house for intruding on parliamentary time . |
| 23 | The therapeutic potential of these genetic advances has been indicated by recent gene transfer experiments by Woo in an inbred strain of mouse with phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency ( S L C Woo , paper delivered at annual meeting of European Metabolic Group ( Milupa ) Copenhagen , May 1991 ) . |
| 24 | For the same reasons one can not properly express one 's willingness to share the fortunes of a group by submitting to an authority which grossly betrays the trust it owes to the group . |
| 25 | He is to learn about the troubles of his early life by interviewing the servants of the family and by submitting to the interviews of psychoanalysis . |
| 26 | By submitting to the cabinet the so-called Mosley Memorandum of 1930 , he brought matters to a head . |
| 27 | If by submitting to the one guilt he could evade all suspicion upon the worse count … he is quite shrewd enough , I fancy , to make the choice and quite durable enough to abide it . |
| 28 | This stronger sense of learning also carries with it the idea that ultimately the student is able to evaluate it for him or herself , and form a personal view about its validity ( by reading the relevant articles , by listening to the different views of the authorities on the topic , and perhaps by assisting in a clinical trial ) . |
| 29 | The company also launched SystemView Information Warehouse DataHub , a series of software products for simplifying database management tasks by assisting in the integration of database management tools and managing remote databases tasks . |
| 30 | The company also launched SystemView Information Warehouse DataHub , a series of software products for simplifying database management tasks by assisting in the integration of database management tools and managing remote databases tasks . |