Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [is] [verb] by [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more elegant , but equally traditional sauce for pork or game is made by thickening a red wine sauce with mustard and blood . |
| 2 | To overcome this discrimination , public education is needed , and less segregation of handicapped people , so that acceptance is increased by widening the concept of normality . |
| 3 | Each entry is made twice and cross-reference is assured by entering in each account the name and reference ( folio ) number of the other . |
| 4 | If response is enhanced by learning to look for more , then this approach seems to offer a way whereby such looking can be energized . |
| 5 | Blue is derived from the ubiquitous indigo plant , and green is produced by mixing yellow and blue . |
| 6 | Linking the two cases does not promote planning , since the link is in any case controversial , and flexibility is improved by separating them . |
| 7 | It roots very easily , and propagation is done by taking the cuttings and planting them , embedding the stalk up to the first node , that is the point where the next set of leaves grow . |
| 8 | This system of indirect control through the internal division of power between shareholders and directors is strengthened by providing that the assistance of the courts can be called upon to enforce it . |
| 9 | A solvent + non-solvent mixture is used to elute the sample and fractionation is achieved by using a solvent gradient . |
| 10 | By law , in a Woonerf vehicles are restricted to ‘ walking pace ’ and compliance is encouraged by abolishing continuous kerbs and pavements , creating a space that is as much used by children as by cars ( Figure 4.2 ) . |
| 11 | ( c ) A fairly common example is " sum " , where X is " add to accumulator " and A is updated by incrementing by one ( B is not used ) . |
| 12 | We need to ensure , for the health of this country , that a wide range of voice and view is heard by allowing proper national debate about the issues that bind us as well as the issues that divide us . |
| 13 | It is possible to use variable frequency regulation in which the on time is fixed and regulation is achieved by increasing or decreasing the switching frequency , but such systems lead to difficult filtering problems . |
| 14 | Now the usual type of detector only indicates the magnitude of the potential difference between B and D. Thus , if balance is approached by reducing the in-phase component of , there will be a range of phasor potential differences across the detector , say , to , that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from the minimum . |
| 15 | My favourite stall , in Peckham , south London , may not have changing-rooms , but modesty is preserved by making a screen of racks of clothes . |
| 16 | The advantage of using hybrid methods is that high-order Markov dependencies do not have to be introduced because accuracy is ensured by using the dictionary . |
| 17 | First , constraints on the combinations of survival and fertility that the organism can achieve at each age may mean that a single optimal genotype evolves , which shows senescence because fitness is maximized by increasing early performance at the expense of late ( the optimality explanation ) . |
| 18 | Acceleration comes as the plates are made to overlap less , while deceleration is achieved by increasing the overlap . |
| 19 | A vessel equipped with Flettner rotors gains in manoeuvrability as lift is diminished by slowing a cylinder 's speed of rotation . |