Example sentences of "by [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argue that Mrs Aquino can heal old wounds by allowing the former dictator to come home , at the same time disarming his supporters who scream that he is being done an injustice . |
| 2 | After the English cricket and soccer debacles of the past week , Hastings ' side hope to make up for the misery by catching the All Blacks cold New Zealand have not played a Test for 10 months and face the Lions with a new team . |
| 3 | Clarity in objectives can be achieved by using the latter terms . |
| 4 | He insisted that his dancers told their own story by using the many conventional gestures familiar to theatregoers throughout Europe . |
| 5 | The positioning is made easier by imagining your field to be the normal landing area on your home site and by using the same angle for the positioning . |
| 6 | The rig is also used to encourage the turn by using the same steering technique as on a run |
| 7 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |
| 8 | Mushkin attempted this by using the same methodology that Denison used in relation to education and in relation to health for the period 1960–80 . |
| 9 | The project is addressing this by using the same forms to assess a comparison group of 400 children who have had no contact with social workers . |
| 10 | Now unity can be guaranteed simply by using the same material from beginning to end , as is done as a matter of course in many fugues . |
| 11 | And you can avoid monotony to a quiet remarkable degree by using the same colours in different textures against which any extra added colours like plants , scatter cushions , pictures or books will stand out with dramatic intensity . |
| 12 | By using the same statistical techniques on each data set within a consistent and coherent methodological framework it will add to the understanding of crime and its consequences . |
| 13 | Familiar faces can also be established by keeping the same characters throughout the series in the same roles . |
| 14 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 15 | The designers , Dr Barry Gorham and Jim Dudley , say that theoretically , by applying the same technology to microwaves , they could extend its range over a much wider area — even rain and snow . |
| 16 | After playing through figs 2–5 you should continue by applying the same approach to as many different chord types/voicings as you can . |
| 17 | Usually we should get much the same results by applying the same load slowly . |
| 18 | Swindon Town have strengthened their side by signing the former Spurs and England defender Terry Fenwick on a one year contract … |
| 19 | The complete traverse of the mountain is a memorable expedition , made doubly enjoyable by returning the same way . |
| 20 | Carew added that ‘ as by abandoning this trade they amend , so by reviving the same they decay again' . |
| 21 | With typical American ingenuity the problem was solved — by forming the All American Girls Professional Baseball League . |
| 22 | He toured Western China and Tibet on his bicycle , paying his way by developing the many photographs he had taken in local universities and sending them back north to paying customers . |
| 23 | ( vi ) In the context of their own writing , pupils should learn to construct different types of paragraph , eg a general statement followed by examples , illustrations followed by a conclusion , cause followed by effect , etc. ( vii ) Pupils should learn , eg by presenting the same material for different purposes or audiences , or in different forms , how they can achieve different stylistic effects in their writing by a conscious control of grammatical structures and lexical choices . |
| 24 | One might be tempted to argue that the photon is absorbed by the microscope and that by measuring the latter 's consequent recoil , due to acquiring the photon 's momentum after its collision with the electron , we could evaluate this momentum as accurately as we wished . |
| 25 | Parys , who had become Poland 's first civilian National Defence Minister on his appointment in the new government of December 1991 , had provoked controversy by forcing the former Defence Minister , Vice-Adml . |
| 26 | Basal levels of PAF were obtained by testing the same cells to the above treatment without CaI . |
| 27 | However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made . |
| 28 | The chronology of the decline of the gold content ( % au ) can be established by analysing the few coins which bear the names of kings ( listed above ) and so can be dated . |
| 29 | One of the leading contenders , Mr Eduardo ‘ Danding ’ Conjuanco , added glamour to his campaign this week by persuading the former heart-throb actor Joseph Estrada to postpone his own presidential ambitions and become his running mate . |
| 30 | A similar view was expressed by Mr Lee Wing-Tat , the radical local council leader , who made history by heckling the former Foreign Secretary , Sir Geoffrey Howe , at a lunch last July . |