Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crucible sought a way from this impasse by showing Fun Fare ( sic ) . |
| 2 | Congress reluctantly capitulated to this final demand on Sept. 1 , thereby opening the way for Wilson to end the impasse by signing the budget bill in the early hours of Sept. 2 . |
| 3 | And when that area was satisfactorily filled , they were prepared to extend the boundaries of the borough by granting more land for building , as happened at Scarborough in 1256 ( Plate 111 ) or at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1298 . |
| 4 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |
| 5 | They were principally used on board ship to measure its speed by counting the number of knots paid out on a line tied to a log floating astern , while the sand-glass measured a given time that was usually half a minute . |
| 6 | Other methods have included timing the swimming fish from the known speed of the ship the fish is passing or circling , and filming the speeding fish and calculating its speed by comparing its position on each frame of the film . |
| 7 | He has ruled out any keel or mast changes in the four days left before the final trials but hopes he can find more speed by using new sails . |
| 8 | I know he 's not exactly God 's gift to forensic science , but he 's a conscientious plodder and you 're not going to stimulate either his brain or his speed by bullying the poor little beast . |
| 9 | As the locust flies , the passage of air causes the antennae to bend outwards and the locust reduces speed by beating its wings less strongly . |
| 10 | There are much cheaper ways of achieving greater speed by modifying Group Three machines . " |
| 11 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 12 | We 've further enhanced speed by adding 32K of CompuAdd engineered cache memory . |
| 13 | Mindful of pulse control warnings I employ increasing pulse width at 16V up to about 15 per cent mark-space ratio and then further increase speed by raising the ‘ space ’ voltage so that the top-speed waveform is 10V d.c. with the 16V 16 per cent pulses superimposed . |
| 14 | If you have answered ‘ yes ’ to three or more of them , you are probably perpetuating this self-image by looking for friends or partners who will treat you in the same way . |
| 15 | For several decades Britain 's policy had been splendid isolation , and that Europe 's most powerful nation should emerge from that isolation by concluding an alliance with Japan was seen in Japan as a triumph . |
| 16 | The calves can be trained in isolation by using seated calf raises or standing calf raises . |
| 17 | Some firms in the US and France have tackled the problems of isolation by setting up small centres which are a meeting point for homeworkers as well as a focus for organization . |
| 18 | As the country 's political isolation reached unprecedented levels , the authorities appeared to have deepened its isolation by sealing the borders with the Soviet Union and Bulgaria , in addition to the earlier closure of the frontiers with Yugoslavia and Hungary . |
| 19 | When most countries recoiled in horror at China 's killing of unarmed protesters four months ago , East Berlin helped break China 's isolation by offering support and congratulations . |
| 20 | Departmental research programmes , with several researchers working on different aspects of a single large problem , may lead to improvements in efficiency through sharing the costs of overheads , and should also decrease each researcher 's isolation by improving internal communication . |
| 21 | Fred Jowett , who nevertheless remained with the ILP , " believed that it was fundamental for the ILP to continue to keep in the main stream of working class life through its mass organisation in the Labour Party and the Trade Union Movement " .37 After the " clean break " of 1932 the ILP could only alleviate its isolation by working with the smaller , though more militant , groups on the Left . |
| 22 | Many such programmes are unnecessarily harsh and increase isolation by confining the patient to bed . |
| 23 | Such compulsion is a legal wrong , and the law provides a remedy by raising a fictional promise to repay . ’ ] |
| 24 | Make your own natural remedy by melting 40g of beeswax in a double boiler , blending in 30g of honey and then 55g of sesame oil . |
| 25 | So one morning when he appeared in tan whipcord trousers and a big , husky Icelandic-knit sweater , he interpreted her surprised glance by saying smoothly , ‘ Do n't be alarmed . |
| 26 | In practice , therefore , it is safest to measure the elevation range of the terrace by determining the altitude at the back and the front , to map the terrace , and to arrange all the terrace fragments on some sort of diagram designed to show the height ranges of the fragments . |
| 27 | Thus , in the case being considered here , syntax compensates for the imprecision of simple word association by setting tense and aspect co-ordinates , assigning subject and object roles , and so on , thereby narrowing down contextual possibilities . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it is likely that activation of Na + / H + exchange and also the HCO 3 - transport systems play a permissive role in cell proliferation by maintaining pH i at a level which will permit DNA and protein synthesis ; these processes often have pH optima above basal pH and are inhibited by intracellular acidosis . |
| 29 | CsA prevents T-cell proliferation by blocking the calcium-activated pathway leading to interleukin-2 transcription . |
| 30 | At the same time as Stalin had appeared to fulfil the potential of Lenin 's thinking by achieving the subordination of humanity to a single will , the uncertain capacity of the system to eternalize its Great Leader of the moment was also evident . |