Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His view was that numbers would speed up moves by helping players identify each other more quickly , but the Football League was outraged and forbade a repeat . |
| 2 | Formative assessment seeks to serve pupils ' interests by helping teachers teach more effectively . |
| 3 | By helping teachers understand classroom roles , it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning . |
| 4 | Today the organization and staffing of the local FWAs vary , but they have roughly the same aim : to promote family welfare by helping families overcome their problems . |
| 5 | Jane says : ‘ By helping homeowners give dignified care we prevented people ending up in large psychiatric hospitals and residential homes . ’ |
| 6 | The prosecution then formally offered no evidence against Hewitt on a charge of obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception by helping Turpin fake a CV to get a job with Europarks and a not guilty verdict was recorded . |
| 7 | Maurin had already tried to ruin Joseph by helping Cobalt reveal his drug smuggling . |
| 8 | He argued that by helping Men protect themselves against Chaos they would create an invaluable bulwark against the forces of darkness . |
| 9 | HEADLEY architect Jack Warshaw is pinning faith in the success of his new practice on the growing desire to protect the environment , by helping people prevent damage to their most valuable assets — their homes . |
| 10 | The result for n = 1 is found by letting n tend to unity which shows that the second term in the expression is while the first term is zero . |
| 11 | Touched by her husband 's bringing her coffee Frau Nordern was in a good humour , dismissing her own worries about the accident as mere alarmism stoked by Bodo , and tempering her authoritarian ways by letting Paul stay in bed for an extra fifteen minutes instead of , as usual , rousing him in the manner of a sergeant in charge of a penal battalion . |
| 12 | Military pressure on Mr Gorbachev to find a quick way of ending the war stems from a bigger worry : that , by letting America take over conduct of the war , the Soviet Union will see its influence suffer in the region , especially if American troops stay on once the fighting is over . |
| 13 | The heads , from top independent boys ' schools , want to reduce A-level failures by letting students study at their own pace . |
| 14 | Hong Kong angers Peking by letting swimmer go West |
| 15 | We all know how the week runs away with official interviews and calls , and how difficult it is to remember all the people with whom you ought to keep in touch , but when I think of the number of things which people of different types , like Lady Londonderry and Lady St Helier and others , have got settled by letting people meet at the dinner table , I despair of a man who never sees even those who have been longest in office on any occasion . |
| 16 | At work , emotional needs are stronger than a lot of people realise ; by letting people know that you have them , and identifying theirs , you can gain influence . |
| 17 | The situation at high speeds can be investigated by letting w tend towards infinity in Eqn . |
| 18 | Marlboro and McLaren gained infinitely more publicity and a far better return on their money in terms of free advertising by letting James run loose . |
| 19 | Options works by letting buyers finance their use of a car rather than its whole cost . |
| 20 | The press agent succeeded by having Rockefeller give money to charity . |
| 21 | And Mr Ataie 's thesis that the British have a deep-seated reverence for war is too easily symbolised by having Penny make Remembrance Day poppies or court Sya in front of a military monument . |
| 22 | I know that the summaries of guidance is is in that list , and from the brief discussion we had at the careers officer 's meeting this week about summaries of guidance , I know we 're starting off the process by having representatives come to a meeting on the eleventh of May . |
| 23 | For example , the proposed EC limits on car exhaust emissions will require more expensive car engines or catalytic converters , so internalizing the cost of air pollution by making motorists pay for preventive action . |
| 24 | By making money follow the pupil , LMS will encourage good schools and penalise bad ones ; and by delegating budgets to individual heads , it will cut down on time-wasting bureaucracy . |
| 25 | By making products sound as if they are good for the environment , manufacturers can ‘ attract extra sales from around a third of the population ’ . |
| 26 | His one catastrophic mistake had been to try to settle the mystery for ever by making Harry disappear . |
| 27 | Although the report was respectful of doctors , its underlying thrust was the need to assert greater managerial control over their activities , by making doctors participate in management themselves . |
| 28 | Kelly , in particular , no longer seems to think that the problem of gender imbalances in subject specialization can be solved by making girls change their attitudes . |
| 29 | Organisers , conditioned to portraying the remarkable as routine , broke with tradition by making Edwards run with a health warning . |
| 30 | A Greenpeace spokesman commented : " Tuna sales are up because dolphin-friendly labels lead to massive complacency by making people think the problem has been solved . |