Example sentences of "by [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When essential papers had failed to come through to Prague , Chadwick had decided to cut corners by manufacturing a few of his own . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By accumulating the expected numbers of cases of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma below age 15 we then created three categories with ( as far as possible ) similar expected numbers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Second , flows would be changed by downgrading the western section of the ring road , with through traffic passing through the area via the eastern leg only . |
| 6 | By articulating the fictional through the ‘ scientific ’ , the novels question the authority of the latter and reassert the specificity of the former as a discourse which has as its function to mimic and to question . |
| 7 | But in his first public comments after the March 18th triumph the chancellor carefully began by praising the western allies , especially America , for making a united , democratic Germany possible . |
| 8 | Some grasshoppers produce their whirring trills by sawing the notched edge of their hind legs against a prominent strengthened vein of the wing . |
| 9 | The " culture " offered by a liberal education could thus control nature by generating a higher form of " life " — by teaching " the art to live " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This leaves open the possibility that the act of recruiting Sos to the plasma membrane triggers Ras activation by generating an increased local Sos concentration . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | He followed this up by a brief speech about his poor old mother , God bless her sweet soul , and ended by singing the first few verses of Onward , Christian Soldiers , in a light , pleasing tenor . |
| 14 | ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham . |
| 15 | Just make sure you balance it the next day by enjoying a bigger portion of vegetables and fruit . |
| 16 | The way the red blood cell nucleus is put into the HeLa cell cytoplasm is by fusing the two cells . |
| 17 | and party men saw it too ; hence the contentiousness of the various schemes to square the circle by fusing the two coalition partners into one organization . |
| 18 | Indeed , by channelling the perceptual cycle and , in so doing also slowing down the looking process , grid technique extends the period of appraisal in a way that counters those rapid and dismissive habits associated with functional looking . |
| 19 | Hence the government faced a dilemma , which it resolved by breaching the strict insurance principles and extending the scope of the unemployment benefit scheme . |
| 20 | Indeed , we were most disappointed he squandered an opportunity to improve local government services by encouraging a superficial debate over boundaries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By encouraging a shared and coherent approach to planning and decision-making , LMS could be a means of enabling schools to concentrate more collaboratively on the quality of learning . |
| 25 | It is wrong to deal with the needs of the poor by encouraging the general population to a wasteful use of energy supplied at a price too low in relation to its present environmental costs and the detriment of our descendants from the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves . |
| 26 | By encouraging the private builder to build houses at low cost to be let or sold , houses were provided at the least cost to the community . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend will know that the Government have proposed a major new initiative in rail freight by encouraging the private sector to run additional services on British Rail track . |
| 28 | He was largely responsible for its recognition in the West : by his pioneering studies in ancient Indian art , such as Indian Sculpture and Painting ( 1908 ) and The Ideals of Indian Art ( 1911 ) ; by encouraging the fledgling Bengal School with sustained writings on its behalf ; and finally by helping to found the India Society with ( Sir ) William Rothenstein [ q.v. ] , for many years the bastion of Indian culture in Europe . |
| 29 | The procedure is thus controlled by encouraging the rapid exchange of ideas and responses during the early part of the process . |
| 30 | Later in the report local authorities are enjoined to ‘ maximise choice and competition by encouraging the further development of private services ’ . |