Example sentences of "by [adv] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be a condition , for anyone thinking about development to resist trying to infer how a structure develops by only looking at the final result . |
| 2 | We can not tell which it was by merely looking at the facts ; we have to ask what his purpose actually was . |
| 3 | The older villagers mainly watched , but by so doing at least attached themselves to and reinforced the validity of the actions of the young . |
| 4 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
| 5 | It 's extraordinary is n't it ? be changed by just looking at it ? |
| 6 | ARE we missing anything by just looking at the obvious ? |
| 7 | Because but they do n't , I mean Lee alright , I mean I know by just looking at him what he , like his T-shirts and everything |
| 8 | Yes , all that rhythm , one day you have it the next you do n't , and er Lawrence has certainly got it today , you can tell by just looking at a bowler running in , if he 's easy and relaxed , Lawrence I suppose never really looks relaxed when he 's belting into bowl , but he 's clicked he 's , he 's right at the crease . |
| 9 | If a material behaves according to Stokes ' Law then , by repeatedly sampling at a fixed depth below the surface progressively finer and finer sediments are present at the sampling depth . |
| 10 | Every time that sexual intercourse takes place with a new partner there is a risk that some disease will be passed on from one to the other and , with rare exceptions , there is no way of telling , by simply looking at a person , whether they have an infection or not . |
| 11 | Thus it is an open system rather than a closed one and its behaviour can not be understood by simply looking at the relationship between inputs and outputs . |
| 12 | Alternatively , a fairly shrewd idea can be obtained by simply looking at the back . |
| 13 | The majority of archaeological finds are broken , damaged or decayed , and it is usually difficult to envisage what a site looked like in its heyday by simply looking at the excavated remains . |
| 14 | In considering the right of the individual to know the law by simply looking at legislation , it is a fallacy to start from the position that all legislation is available in a readily understandable form in any event : the very large number of statutory instruments made every year are not available in an indexed form for well over a year after they have been passed . |
| 15 | And he concluded proceedings by almost screaming at an astonished Mrs Ann Clwyd who had been teasing him ; it was a burst of rage that rocked his high chair . |
| 16 | It 's , it 's by actually looking at , well I , in Bill and Kevin 's appraisal I actually tackled it through their appraisal because we discussed , in quite a lot of depth , erm what their workload and ways in which they could change their workload |