Example sentences of "by [v-ing] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made allowance for a stale price effect in the index ( by including a first order moving average process ) , and used a GARCH ( 1,1 ) model to control for autocorrelation in the variance of the disturbances . |
| 2 | For those members taking part in the British Trust for Ornithology/BASF Garden Bird Survey , we are pleased to announce that BASF have generously agreed to continue their support by sponsoring a third year of the survey . |
| 3 | Critics of the programme , who were numerous in the USA as well as in the Soviet Union , maintained that it would violate the ABM treaty and therefore undermine the whole concept of deterrence by allowing a first strike to be delivered from behind a space ‘ shield ’ which would prevent or at least reduce the risk of retaliation . |
| 4 | He completed an outstanding session by catching a second pike scaling 28lb . |
| 5 | It is recorded that they began by purchasing a second hand soccer ball from Lisbon CC . |
| 6 | Car drivers are banned from using their cars in the capital one day each week — although many have circumvented the ban by purchasing a second car . |
| 7 | In the film 's most inventive touch , Hook tries to avenge himself on Peter Pan by becoming a second and better father . |
| 8 | The two trumpets and three trombones give us five parts , but we have no intention of spoiling the harmonic clearness by writing a fifth ‘ real part ’ for one of these . |
| 9 | BBC Enterprises has again thrown open the TV listings debate by lodging an eleventh hour appeal to the High Court . |
| 10 | Hybrid parameters relevant to the three configurations are distinguished by adding a second subscript so that , for example , the common-emitter h-parameters are denoted by , , and . |
| 11 | But Gilliland found that the real temperature record could be matched much more closely by adding a third factor to the calculations : varying solar heat output tied to the 76-year cycle of variations in solar size ( Climatic Change , vol 4 , p I 1 1 ) . |
| 12 | We rule out this second way in which a true belief may be too luckily true to count as knowledge by adding a fourth clause to the initial three : |
| 13 | But they finished as kings by scoring a third 8 minutes from time . |
| 14 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 15 | Traditionally designers start the process by holding a last , vacuum coated with a plastic film called a drape , and drawing on it . |
| 16 | As in Babylonia , this calendar was adapted to the sun by intercalating a thirteenth month from time to time , but this was left to local officials in the different cities to decide , and they did this individually and arbitrarily . |
| 17 | Dealers are worried that a minority government , which might have to consider seeking a firmer mandate by calling a second general election later in the year , would be hard pressed to keep sterling within its exchange rate mechanism bands during a period of continuing uncertainty . |
| 18 | However , we approached this task by conducting a second multi-agency enumeration survey of problem drug users during 1985–6 . |
| 19 | Of course , you can achieve variations on this basic form , if only by having a second murder and getting a shape rather like a violin . |
| 20 | The rest of the points were kicked by fly-half Aled Williams , who sealed the famous victory by dropping a 77th minute goal to send the 11,000 crowd into a frenzy . |
| 21 | It aims to capitalise on that experience by creating a second plank for the group in the engineering field . |
| 22 | But 90 was thought to be too many to be easily controlled from the centre , which meant retaining the existing tier of regional administration as an executive arm of government , while the variation in population size was tackled by creating a third tier of management in large areas : the district . |
| 23 | Amid much grand talk about the dawn of a new era , an assorted bunch of international players , only some of whom are world-class , set out tomorrow to add to New Zealand 's miseries by ruining a 100th birthday party , writes John Mason . |
| 24 | One could experiment further by dragging a third colour , say a very pale grey or blue , across the two underlying colours . |
| 25 | Many farmers have adjusted to changing economic and social fortunes by taking a second job rather than leave their farms altogether . |
| 26 | The sensual Margaret Tudor very quickly stirred up trouble by taking a second husband , the sixth Earl of Angus — a Red Douglas , who proved to be a greedy bully and unsuitable either as a husband or a stepfather . |
| 27 | Mina 's sister , too , was childless and her husband had humiliated and rejected her by marrying a second wife . |
| 28 | Another area of study in which EXAFS will be valuable concerns mixed-alkali effects in glasses whereby the physical , and more particularly the electrical , properties of a glass containing a single alkali are considerably changed by introducing a second alkali . |
| 29 | Fearing that this might produce an aggregate increase in local government spending the government responded by introducing a second expenditure-control mechanism known as targets . |
| 30 | then , by setting a fifth of the usual time , a ball park figure was laid down for trail and error , up and down the variables until a best method was agreed by all . |