Example sentences of "by [v-ing] they [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prosthetists with amputations noted that patients could be discouraged by seeing them cope so well . |
| 2 | Almost always , by helping them stay in their own homes — not only by providing the necessary cash , but also by helping them to obtain all the entitlements to which they are due . |
| 3 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 4 | The best thing to do is to channel this concern in a positive way by helping them practise revision and exam techniques at home . ’ |
| 5 | The worker should make strenuous efforts to help parents exercise their rights fully , for example by helping them obtain legal advice , and only after these steps have been taken , should a final agreement be signed . |
| 6 | Therapy will aim to reduce the guilt of such people by helping them to decide whether they will continue to practise oral sex , and , if so , to lessen the conflict within them by helping them accept the activity as pleasurable and human and not highly deviant . |
| 7 | In addition it warns Sun that it is alienating its customers by not letting them apply their corporate discounts to the Classic and by letting them perceive Sun as turning its back on its established technical clientele to pursue the commercial marketplace . |
| 8 | As long as you hold yourself well and do n't embarrass people by letting them think , ‘ Oh he 's so thick ’ or ‘ his ways are so silly ’ , you 're all right . |
| 9 | One of the most common ways of providing training for intermediaries is by letting them observe and work with a trained searcher . |
| 10 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 11 | They say they 're just trying to stretch brighter pupils by letting them use facilities not available at most primary schools . |
| 12 | Although you may be able to fob off your opponent by letting them have a copy of your accounts ledger , you should not be in a position where you have to write off for copy receipts ; all these documents should be properly filed . |
| 13 | ‘ It might take a letter a week to get to Germany , might n't it ? ’ said Mrs Fanshawe , taking her rings off and amusing herself by making them flash in the sunlight right into Nurse Rose 's eyes . |
| 14 | Additional revenue could be obtained by the Exchequer from this source and it would deter demand for imported goods by making them appear expensive in our shops . |
| 15 | The tactic is to draw speculators ' fangs by making them commit capital to buying put options . |
| 16 | Some firms ' behaviour suggests that it did , but not simply by making them invest more in Japanese factories . |
| 17 | They laughed and joked all the time , and deliberately exhausted their guards by making them walk too fast . |
| 18 | This is not done by the owners challenging them , or punishing them physically , but simply by making them earn all their privileges . |
| 19 | Our civilization has at least this to its credit , he wrote , that it has found a way of rounding up this dishonest crap and incarcerating it in morgues , in fortified places with guards and alarm bells and the rest , thus keeping it off the streets , protecting decent citizens , and now , he wrote , there are even moves afoot to repel intruders by making them pay hard cash to enter these fortified places . |
| 20 | A bid to reduce bills for rural householders who live away from the district 's three main cemeteries , by making them pay less for burial services , was narrowly defeated . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a poor motivation to ask people to change by making them feel bad or unworthy . |
| 22 | Mr Whitehouse reads the letters : someone called John Huntley , a model , gained the confidence to enter his profession through Mr McLean 's kindness ; Janice Joyce , who knew McLean at the Hippodrome , thinks the only way Lenny could really kill anyone would be by making them laugh . |
| 23 | Games which pressurise weak spellers by making them write words quickly are not good for them . |
| 24 | James Reeves ( 1958 ) wrote that ‘ we attempt to teach children to write by making them write in prose . |
| 25 | Although departments could dispel needless anxiety by encouraging co-operation amongst students , they strengthen women 's sense of themselves as inadequate by making them work individually and competitively . |
| 26 | Not just smear the KGB by making them seem callously careless in their shooting . |
| 27 | There was the hope that modest constitutional change might attach the middle classes to the established institutions of the country by making them consider the House of Commons as an ultimate tribunal where their grievances could be discussed and remedied . |
| 28 | THE central plank of the bill is the curb on the country 's biggest industrial polluters by making them use the best available technology to cut discharges . |
| 29 | In this way , we 're starting to get away from the dangers associated with monopolistic suppliers and purchasers , because it 's less easy for large organisations to circumscribe their trading partners by making them use a particular EDI network . |
| 30 | This means that , even if it were possible to deal with free-riders by making them breathe dirty air , it would be economically inefficient to do so . |