Example sentences of "[vb infin] [det] by [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can achieve this by adding a touch of spray to the roots and blowdrying hair upside down . |
| 2 | You can do this by putting a screwdriver between the body of the tube and forcing the body away from the retaining lugs on the thumb action . |
| 3 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 4 | We can understand this by considering a person 's reflection in a mirror which is experienced as a re-figuring and deepening of the reflected image : the depth of the reflection , for example , shows that the reflection is not the mirror itself , although , clearly , without the mirror there is no reflection . |
| 5 | Workers can anticipate these by considering a number of questions . |