Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Howards began by manufacturing fine chemicals , especially the antimalarial drug quinine and its derivatives , for the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 2 | By crystallising cheap carbon , fortunes would be made . |
| 3 | Animal sports were put down by crusading urban and evangelical pressure . |
| 4 | He dances about among the crowd , greeting people here and there by stamping yellow rice marks on their foreheads with the thumb of his other hand . |
| 5 | Essentially , formulating a theory of regulation involves imputing motives to the various bodies involved in regulation ; various theories are obtained by imputing various motives . |
| 6 | Trims by offsetting null point on artificial feel units for ailerons and rudder . |
| 7 | These form today 's big stick : their owners hope that , by possessing the ability to kill tens of millions of people and destroy the fabric of modern industrial society , they will prevent an enemy from being stupid enough to risk all by waging all-out war . |
| 8 | Ceauşescu could not wage war against foreign enemies — his neighbours after all were his fraternal allies — so he could only provide means for his ambitious plans by waging economic war against his own people . |
| 9 | Fred made up for his lack of inches by waging psychological warfare in the form of a relentless monologue . |
| 10 | To make a contribution to educational policy and practice by generating practical suggestions for how computers may be used effectively to stimulate exploratory and reasoned argument in the classroom , with particular reference to the curriculum goals of English and spoken language development across a range of curriculum areas . |
| 11 | The site of the neutrophil chemoattractant(s) , whether luminal or mucosal , may be important since , on contact with a chemoattractant , neutrophils cause indiscriminate damage to their immediate surroundings by generating reactive oxygen species and by lysosomal enzyme release . |
| 12 | we are helping the Amazonian Indians and tribal people in Malaysia in their fight for survival by generating worldwide publicity for their cause , and campaigning to protect their rainforest lands ; |
| 13 | Inositol trisphosphate is a second messenger that controls many cellular processes by generating internal calcium signals . |
| 14 | Investment in an agency , branch or subsidiary will be expected to pay for itself by generating extra business . |
| 15 | They will also seek to influence public and corporate opinion by generating other publicly available information via : |
| 16 | Distension of the rectum facilitates defecation in patients with complete supraconal lesions by generating rectal contractions and anal relaxations in much the same way as in normal subjects . |
| 17 | Any organisation which has a large capital base and a relatively secure home market , whether it be in the industrial , service or utility sector , can make a positive contribution by generating overseas earnings . |
| 18 | Despite this , many dealers earned staggering incomes by generating incredible turnovers . |
| 19 | A single simulation is made by generating random numbers from these probability distributions and adding them to the observed geographic coordinates ( defining point , line or area features ) with these random values . |
| 20 | Originally from Punjab , Channi began his music career in England by singing religious songs in Sikh temples . |
| 21 | Many of the rather frowsy old biddies who made their living by singing Gay Nineties songs and cadging drinks from the customers , recognized Ella , and several came to sit at our table to have their pictures taken by the resident camera man . |
| 22 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 23 | There was fierce criticism of the government from centre-left opposition parties which accused it of aggravating conditions leading to the crisis by appeasing religious extremists . |
| 24 | Identification of the new muscle proteins was made possible by fusing human cells with mouse muscle cells ; the human muscle proteins are similar but distinct from those made by mice . |
| 25 | These orders of marine creatures have evolved feeding techniques which rely upon their food coming to them , either by strong water movement or by farming microscopic algae in their tissues which can harness the radiant energy of the sun to manufacture nutrients by photosynthesis . |
| 26 | Potentially damaging conflict between these subgroups is avoided by channelling mutual competition into an avenue where it can benefit the group as a whole . |
| 27 | The aim of World in Harmony is to help people in need all over the world , often by channelling huge agricultural surpluses , to those in need . |
| 28 | Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries . |
| 29 | Political parties compete to win elections by submitting distinct programmes from which the electorate can choose . |
| 30 | The leadership was provided by Slobodan Milosevic , a previously little-known party apparatchik anxious to broaden his power-base by co-opting Serbian nationalism into it . |