Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [det] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He has already triggered a steep rise in transfer market prices by proving such a bargain at £2.5 million . |
2 | By reflecting all the aspects of Disabled people 's lives , new images of Disability are created . |
3 | She scandalised the academic conventions by naming all the chimps ( Mr Leakey , after her mentor Louis Leakey ; Mr McGregor , after the Beatrix Potter character ) and referring to them as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ , instead of ‘ it ’ . |
4 | Without a thesaurus , the records would need to be searched by naming all the metals individually , but without knowing which metals have actually been recorded in the records . |
5 | It may look easy from the safety of the burn 's heathery banks , but you would be wringing out your underpants if you found yourself clinging to near-vertical rock at the crest of the ridge by pursuing such a daft route . |
6 | By pursuing such a policy , ward closures could steadily release recurring funding for redeployment elsewhere . |
7 | If by any chance there are errors in the minutes , then by accepting such a motion you are authorising the Chairman to sign the minutes complete with the errors as the correct record of the previous meeting . |
8 | By accepting such a limitation in application domain it is possible to achieve much more detailed analysis of the text . |
9 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
10 | Where this range of charts scores is by including all the information on the one chart rather than having to go to other sources of reference . |
11 | In preparation for winter it will be busy putting on fat by eating all the wild fruit that it can find , and by making a nuisance of itself feeding on produce growing in the kitchen garden . |
12 | The change from thirty one percent to twenty seven percent was just a calculation by using all the information not taking specific points on the network . |
13 | It even helps tidy the kitchen by keeping all the dirty dishes out of sight . |
14 | There is no attempt to understand the movement in its context , to appreciate the purposes of those whose words are used , to consider either the views of their antagonists or those of later researchers … by omitting these a distorted view of what was wrong with " the land laws " has been fostered . |
15 | By applying such a low EM field to a cell in order to excite it and then observing how long it takes to discharge , it is possible to determine when a cell has become transformed from a normal state to a cancerous condition . |
16 | The fourth treaty ( to which all four States are parties ) strengthens the entire settlement by incorporating all the obligations of the other treaties . |
17 | The 1979 Act once again puts the law into one statute by incorporating all the amendments which had been made in the original Act . |
18 | Contracts for sale etc. or land to be made by signed writing 2. ( 1 ) A contract for the sale or other disposition of an interest in land can only be made in writing and only by incorporating all the terms which the parties have expressly agreed in one document or , where contracts are exchanged , in each . |
19 | Roland Barthes 's preface to this volume warns against the attempt made to ‘ naturalize ’ Robbe-Grillet 's fiction by adopting such a markedly humanist approach . |
20 | Anemones are mainly plankton feeders and fish are not regarded as potential prey so there is no loss to the anemone in keeping all fish at bay by adopting such a strategy . |
21 | Psychology can not construct complete , consistent , scientific theories of the subject by adopting such a programme . |
22 | By adopting such an approach , the deterrent purposes of Rule 10b-5 are still capable of being achieved . |
23 | The proposal is to investigate the potential advantages of applying modular design concepts to pump and valve design ; to evaluate commercial advantages to be gained in international markets by adopting such an approach and to introduce the indicated changes of design philosophy and practice to the British pump and valve industries . |
24 | The niceties of these social distinctions were not lost on the pub designer of the period , as they boosted pub taking by enabling such a wide range of people to be served in the same building . |
25 | I saved myself by hurling half a brick into the darkness . |
26 | Legend has it that as he departed he destroyed the contents of the greenhouses by opening all the windows on a freezing night . |
27 | Tony Philpin , Pennine Way co-ordinator , said that by tackling all the problem areas simultaneously the project was more cost effective in terms of the bulk purchase of the flags and hiring the helicopters . |
28 | By blending all the right components ( PWEI , MEF , Jane 's Addiction , Megas ) and looking fashionably dreadlocked and cute , it 's apparent why every A&R type in London is in the building tonight . |
29 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
30 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |