Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [prep] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We demanded proof of intent , and that could only be achieved through living a separatist lifestyle . |
| 2 | Such a state of tension can only be achieved by implanting a hidden structure which must be integral to the situation — and to what the class can understand of the situation . |
| 3 | Progress upwind can only be made by completing a series of zig-zags , the turns at first being executed by the 180 degree turn method and later , with more experience , by tacking — steering the board through the turn . |
| 4 | The only access was through a sliding metal door which could only be activated by punching a code into the bellpush on the adjacent wall . |
| 5 | This objection can only be evaded by finding a different account of the justification of false beliefs from that which is offered for true ones . |
| 6 | This can only be done by having a transformed imagination , something that can only come about through a ‘ revelation ’ . |
| 7 | These skills can only be developed by having a highly effective education and training system . |
| 8 | Pollution levels in the city centre have been shown to be dangerously high , and these can only be reduced by encouraging a switch to more environment-friendly modes of transport . |
| 9 | The employer may have reached this decision on purely strategic , rather than personal or malicious , grounds The employer may calculate , for instance , that a real commercial benefit can only be derived from gaining a market lead in a highly competitive sector ( such as electronics or fibre optics ) with a new product that would otherwise be obsolescent by the time the patent filing and examination process has run its course . |
| 10 | Judicial dignity could only be safeguarded by placing a foot judiciously against the door . |
| 11 | Lyrical Ballads nevertheless remains a very strange publication , the full effect of which can only be appreciated by studying a facsimile edition , or one of the reprints of the first edition . |
| 12 | The postclassical version of human rationality and motivation can perhaps be illustrated by taking a simple example — my relationship with the laws against speeding when I am driving home late at night . |
| 13 | Mindful of recent events in Dakar , these officials believed that Allied interests would best be served by maintaining a working relationship with Vichy administrators . |
| 14 | That last requirement could best be met by establishing a large enough market to warrant actual manufacture in the Far East . |
| 15 | The attack showed that security force members were at risk all the time and they could now best be repaid by finding a political solution to the Ulster conflict . |
| 16 | The efficient co-ordination of our information policies can best be achieved by maintaining a small strategic planning group to make recommendations to Management . |
| 17 | As the late Sir John Biggs-Davison pointed out , this could best be achieved by raising a regiment of West Indian Guards , to serve alongside — and compete with — the Scots , Irish and Welsh Guards . |
| 18 | Perhaps this chapter can best be concluded by raising a theme which will recur in this book , the idea of cultural counter-revolution . |
| 19 | Many of the canvases produced in the later part of 1906 constitute what might be called a ‘ crisis ’ point in Picasso 's art in that he was becoming increasingly obsessed with creating figures which were heavily volumetric , indeed often almost grotesquely bulky , but which simultaneously adhered or clung to the picture plane : the effect they produce could best be described by imagining a series of pneumatic models pushed up against heavy panes of glass and pumped up with air , so that they get larger and larger whilst simultaneously flattening up against the surface in front of them . |
| 20 | Miss Tan could not be charged with running a brothel because she worked alone in her basement flat . |
| 21 | If the effect of the rule was that an emergency ring holding position could not be achieved by making a residence order , because of a requirement for 21 days notice , then section 9(5) would have no application and the judge was free to achieve the objective by means of a specific issue order and/or a prohibited steps order . |
| 22 | ‘ The result is : ( 1 ) That this Act does not necessarily require anything to be done under it which might not be done without causing a nuisance ; ( 2 ) That as to those things which may or may not be under it , there is no evidence on the face of the Act that the legislature supposed it to be impossible for any of them to be done ( if they were done at all ) somewhere and under some circumstances , without creating a nuisance ; and ( 3 ) That the legislature has manifested no intention that any of these optional powers , as to asylums , should be exercised at the expense of , or so as to interfere with , any man 's private rights . |
| 23 | HIV can not be transmitted through sharing a toilet seat |
| 24 | But should the thrust of society as a whole not be directed towards producing a change of heart in criminals ? |
| 25 | The problem of traffic congestion in the town should not be solved by building a major new road through this sensitive landscape in the Brecon Beacons National Park . |
| 26 | Onerous leasing obligations and other capital commitments which can not be revoked without incurring a penalty/losing a deposit and/or which are essential for the ongoing business . |
| 27 | Whatever the cause of an airlock , a temporary cure can usually be effected by connecting a hose pipe from the kitchen cold tap ( under mains pressure ) to the tap which is not running and turning both on . |
| 28 | This problem , if it arises , can usually be cured by drawing a minimum current at all times ( or by elaborate internal loading circuitry which operates when the regulator is off ) . |
| 29 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 30 | RIGHT Aerial views of an excavation can also be obtained by suspending a camera from a kite . |