Example sentences of "by [verb] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dark gull-like seabirds , called Jaegers in North America , noted for their piratical methods of feeding , by pursuing other seabirds , especially gulls and terns , to make them disgorge their last catch . |
| 2 | I love the passage ( Numbers 14:15-17 ) where Moses craftily dissuades God from killing his own people by suggesting other people will think he did it to cover up his inability to get them to the promised land . |
| 3 | Animals in turn live by eating the organic materials that plants have produced by photosynthesis ; or by eating other animals that in their turn have eaten plants . |
| 4 | In the event , the ‘ loyal ’ battallions took both the rebels and the US troops by surprise by using other roads , and possibly short-hop airlifts , to attack the rebels at army headquarters . |
| 5 | Through oral history ( questioning older people ) , and by using other resources such as old photographs , or artefacts , pupils can begin to investigate life as far back as 50 to 80 years ago . |
| 6 | Such ‘ temporary exceedances ’ , said DoE , could be dealt with by natural denitrification in storage reservoirs , by blending or by using other sources . |
| 7 | Local authorities around London simply took matters into their own hands , either by using other legislation such as the Open Space Act , 1906 , or by introducing local powers ( Sharp , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 9 | Whilst reheating can be successfully achieved by using other modes , this is a speciality mode developed in recognition that the majority of food will be stored in a refrigerator . |
| 10 | Some people mistakenly believe that ceiling joists can be turned into floor joists , simply by nailing other joists on top to double the depth . |
| 11 | This will best be done by bringing other countries into membership , not by keeping them out . |
| 12 | It sets out to achieve its objective of protection by promoting the kind of policies and practices which it believes would enable the rural environment to be utilised and developed for the good of society without destroying aesthetic and spiritual beauty , and by opposing other policies and practices which in its view would have such an effect . |
| 13 | The numbers 1,2,3,5 , and 7 have not been made up by multiplying other numbers together . |
| 14 | Used alone , the Student 's books and tapes are ideal for intensive courses but by adding other components Streamline may be used on extensive courses . |
| 15 | ‘ Now we want to build on our success by improving other estates . |
| 16 | Tits have likewise , in part at least , learned to open milk bottle tops by imitating other birds . |
| 17 | Since an object of the Bill was to reduce foreign competition by forcing other countries to conform to British standards , at least when trading in British ports , the answer appeared to be " yes " . |
| 18 | Via central training departments and other inter-authority groups specifically designed to assist training , such as Local Government Training Boards ; funding/staffing library departments , sometimes being directly responsible for the allocating of funds on training ; and by funding other organizations that may ultimately contribute to training in libraries . |
| 19 | The only real worry is that , to finance a strategy driven by buying other firms , Hanson keeps a large cash balance — £7 billion at the last count . |
| 20 | there is an even stronger case for such cross-examination where the evidence the plaintiff wishes to give ( for example , as to the state of his knowledge at a particular date ) is very difficult to challenge by calling other witnesses ; if he is believed , his point is established . |
| 21 | An international row is brewing among scientists who say that the EEC 's ISPRA establishment in Italy is trying to make up for its loss of Super-SARA by stealing other plum research contracts for which it is ill-equipped from specialist fusion laboratories throughout West Europe . |
| 22 | This union and other unions have protested most vigorously to the Mersey Region and they decided then to go ahead with the appeals by approaching other trade unions , not necessarily involved in clinical skills , like the plumbers and the joiners of the A U E W and the EPTU . |
| 23 | But the retention of a central earth , coupled with the mathematical advantages to be gained by having other planets orbiting the sun , commended his system to Jesuit astronomers who , by 1620 , were making it their own . |
| 24 | These changes were aimed at speeding up trials and saving government expenditure by allowing some cases which would have previously been tried in the Supreme Court moved to district courts , and by having other cases tried by police courts instead of district courts . |
| 25 | They will be trained by observing other leaders in action . |
| 26 | The ‘ impressive and general ’ wording of Article 23 was seen as demonstrating that the Convention would not have been a proper vehicle for a treaty which would have done the barely conceivable by giving other countries control over American litigation . |
| 27 | Now Mill seems to be very unsure what to do about this because he does n't want to say that the poor should be disenfranchised , because after all everyone is entitled to their say in government , but he does seem to be worried that if the poor are given an equal say or the uned uneducated poor are given an equal say , then they will make a very bad decision , a decision which is against their own interests and this is one reason why he favours plural voting because he recognizes that the numerical majority might make a erm wrong decision , so we should make sure that the numerical majority do n't have sway in a democratic process by giving another client more weight in it so he seems to between wanting to disenfranchise them altogether which he seems to consider and just emasculating their vote by giving other people more votes . |
| 28 | We also noted a tendency for some teachers to create time to monitor children 's learning in prioritized areas like mathematics and language by treating other areas as time fillers . |
| 29 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
| 30 | She adds that we ‘ only realise this by learning other languages ’ ( ibid . ) . |