Example sentences of "by [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similarly , working-class musical practice found it hard to deal with the elements of bourgeois solo song except by acquiescing in the norms of the dominant musical culture , or by treating them parodistically or through other methods of distortion . |
| 32 | If it is correct that our trilobite lived above the sea bottom , actively swimming in the water , there are certain predictions we can make about its geological occurrence which can be tested by looking in the rocks . |
| 33 | It is therefore necessary when conducting a survey of a flat to examine the lease to see what each owner is liable to pay for the upkeep of the building as a whole , to cross-question the managing agents on foreseeable charges , and to make some assessment of the state of the structure as a whole by looking in the roof space , checking for cracks in halls , staircases , basements and external walls . |
| 34 | I would like you to get to know your body better by looking in the mirror and seeing the improvements in your shape as each day goes by . |
| 35 | You can find your nearest clinic by looking in the telephone directory under ‘ Venereal Diseases ’ . |
| 36 | Prior to this , in the 1960s and 1970s , most senior jobs had in fact been advertised and senior people , even at chief executive level , would expect to find their next opportunity by looking in The Sunday Times . |
| 37 | He finds himself by looking in the works of others . |
| 38 | We do n't teach them specially er they just er learn by living in the community because er , mainly Sikhism is about life , how to live a decent , healthy er social life , which do does n't finish here , which leads to eternal union with God . |
| 39 | I leave my heating on during the night because I do n't want to get up in a cold flat but people I know try to save their money by living in the cold . ’ |
| 40 | It encourages us to believe we can take a protective attitude , by acting in the clients ' 'best interests ' , in making decisions about what stock to provide . |
| 41 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy , I 've been fascinated by acting in the cinema . |
| 42 | The tail aids stability by acting in the same way as a drogue which will keep the kite heading into wind , and its weight ensures that the centre of gravity is well behind the line attachment . |
| 43 | In fact , a graph briefly shown at the announcement implied that Windows benchmark performance could be improved more substantially by slotting in the £385 video adaptor than a Pentium board . |
| 44 | Sometimes the recogniser gives no candidate letter when nothing matches in the Freeman vector database ( section 3.4.1 and section 5.2.6 ) , and in such situations a ‘ wild card ’ algorithm is implemented to attempt to fill such blank letter positions ( shown as * below ) by searching in the word look-up tree . |
| 45 | ( a ) Defining obligations A party may seek to restrict its liability by defining in the contract the obligations it has undertaken . |
| 46 | Auntie and friend had been saved by lying in the gutter outside with an eiderdown over their heads . |
| 47 | It might seem idiotic but a scene from a recently released Hollywood film about American football , the programme , depicts young players testing their bravery by lying in the middle of a busy road as the traffic drives by . |
| 48 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 49 | But the company outstripped competitors by remaining in the black . |
| 50 | England 's record try-scorer held off his tackler , fed younger brother Tony on the loop and the 24-year-old celebrated the first brother partnership in an England line-up for 54 years by scoring in the left-hand corner . |
| 51 | CHATAM may give trainer Martin Pipe and jockey Peter Scudamore their first Grand National winner by scoring in the Martell sponsored spectacular at Liverpool next Saturday . |
| 52 | Do n't forget Leeds winning instead — the best scenario would be Leeds winning on goal difference by scoring in the last minute . |
| 53 | What is known about Jane is that she lived in a cellar in Wisbech , earning her living by reaping in the fields in the summer and spinning wool and flax in the winter . |
| 54 | Pointer starts to move L or R. Follow this by turning in the same direction a maximum amount — at any one time — of 5°. 6 . |
| 55 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 56 | But we 've not wilfully put at risk services or jobs by risking capping by going in the opposite direction . |
| 57 | At present , they are entitled to a share in the sale proceeds but can not forestall a sale by staying in the house . |
| 58 | Now match referee Clive Lloyd is to investigate the incident after a complaint by Indian manager Amrit Mathur , who claimed : ‘ Kirsten showed dissent against the umpires and provoked the crowd by staying in the middle . |
| 59 | We wo n't find them by staying in the light and warm , I know that much . ’ |
| 60 | Running through her mind , like a tape she was unable to switch off , was the newspaper story that Peter Sebastian was thought to have an American fiancée and would probably by staying in the States . |