Example sentences of "by [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it would be very easy for Jones to check out the heat by collaborating with an electrochemist . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But the misery of those who could not obtain their release , either honestly or dishonestly , by appearing before an Insolvent Debtors Court and agreeing to assign their property , still drew sympathy . |
| 5 | Dear Norman Tebbit , one of the funniest and shrewdest figures from the Thatcher years , seems to be imitating Michael Foot 's donkey-jacket look by appearing in an anorak . |
| 6 | However , there is a question about what a naturalized epistemology can offer by way of an explanation or justification of the contributions to knowledge that we make by contributing to an ongoing process of inquiry : we want to know , in such cases , not how we have arrived at the truth , but how what we do can be understood as contributing to the fact that someone else ( or perhaps ourselves ) can arrive at the truth at some time in the future . |
| 7 | Special fabric paint is applied using a stencil brush and then the design is fixed permanently by pressing with an iron . |
| 8 | The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas . |
| 9 | Well , after the er publishers had approached me and , and asked me if I would be interested in doing this book er the next thing to do was actually get hold of all the Ordinance Survey maps for Oxfordshire , er you know , quite a big county , so er once we 'd done that er the next thing to do was to actually just work out exactly where we wanted the walks to be , and they 've obviously , for commercial reasons they 've got to be fairly evenly spread throughout the county , but you can tell quite quickly and quite easily by looking at an Ordinance Survey map , you know , where all the paths are , they 're all clearly marked , er public footpaths , public bridleways , that sort of thing , and the next step was to actually create from the maps , circular walks to fit in with the requirement . |
| 10 | I would not be giving evidence of bad faith by looking for an opt-out clause — and the reason is that , unlike the Prime Minister , I do not have to try to patch my party together . |
| 11 | By 1883 the Titfords were living at 2 Mount Terrace , Curry Rivel , where Benjamin was supplementing his income — a trick he had learned from his father ? — by acting as an insurance agent for the ‘ Lancashire ’ . |
| 12 | It usually works by acting as an external focus for the electric fields generated by the brain , and directs them at a receptive machine or conditioned brain elsewhere . |
| 13 | Godwin is not pleased with that idea : I might compromise my sincerity by acting in an underhand manner . |
| 14 | I believe that the shop in those days belonged to a Mr Chatto , who was youngish and obliging and who seemed permanently to by pushing through an avalanche of books . |
| 15 | Graduates were usually destined for mageship at least , but Rincewind — after an unfortunate event — had left knowing only one spell and made a living of sorts around the town by capitalising on an innate gift for languages . |
| 16 | A sense of movement may be given by scoring for an instrument such as the harp or celesta which can play scales or arpeggios against the static background . |
| 17 | Lump sum investments can take advantage of the charitable status of public schools by paying into an educational trust run by the schools themselves or the life offices . |
| 18 | ‘ We dropped the name ( and image ) because it gave the wrong impression by sounding like an extension of an army camp , ’ says a Raleigh International spokeswoman . |
| 19 | The interior of the church — reached by going through an ornate entrance archway that seems to be competing with the presbytery doorway for the eye of the visitor — has some good frescoes , particularly the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Baptist by Giovan Battista Crespi , and a canvas study of the Nativity by Marco d'Oggiono . |
| 20 | Born in Los Angeles , his father a film producer , he had been fascinated by flying from an early age , had taken his pilot 's licence even before going to West Point . |
| 21 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 22 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 23 | To save the shot , you can then do one of two things : reframe the shot to exclude the sky , perhaps by moving to an angle where the sky is obscured by a building ; or , correct for the backlight either by pressing the backlight button or by making a manual adjustment to the iris ( depending on which facility is provided on your machine ) . |
| 24 | Unemployment has fallen by 70 per cent since the mid-eighties in Telford but it 's about more than just the number of jobs , it 's the quality of jobs , the skills that erm are offered in terms of the training that 's available in the area , and the whole atmosphere of the town has been completely transformed by moving from an older and established industrial climate to one that encompasses a wide range of modern and high tech industries . |
| 25 | A time may come when you decide , however reluctantly , that you have no alternative but to seek redress by complaining to an industrial tribunal or making a claim through the civil courts . |
| 26 | Even the Tory MP for Bodmin , Robert Hicks , had signalled his opposition to his own government 's policy by speaking on an anti-nuclear platform . |
| 27 | For similar reasons , the majority will always be silent , and by definition , will not , at any rate by speaking in an overt way , assert themselves . |
| 28 | Do n't speak too quickly but do not ‘ overmouth ’ words by speaking in an exaggeratedly slow manner . |
| 29 | The fourth point , the idea that science is intrinsically masculine , can be sustained only by clinging to an irredeemably narrow conception of science and scientific thinking . |
| 30 | Already Teresa Gorman MP has supported TODAY 's campaign by calling for an automatic life sentence for rape . |