Example sentences of "[adv] by [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is a simple fact , often forgotten , ’ says Roma , ‘ that people may create something good merely by thinking it so . |
| 2 | And why , as tellers , when we want to tell people the truth , do we do so by telling them instead what we believe ? |
| 3 | They might think they can do so by managing it better , by motivating the managers better , by putting the firm together with something else , or in other ways . |
| 4 | Learning a language can be achieved only by using it repeatedly . |
| 5 | Our task is to bring back the mass-production element into the house-building industry , which can be done only by enabling it largely to work on its own authority for a prospective demand — by ‘ letting the dog see the rabbit ’ . |
| 6 | This has major pedagogic implications , since students can no longer hope to make sense of poems or plays just by reading them carefully , but must spend time in libraries getting up on the historical context . |
| 7 | This can be done just by pushing them together . |
| 8 | Obscenities have a kind of magic in children 's circles and they can be certain of raising shrieks of laughter from their friends , just by saying them aloud . |
| 9 | And that means that there is scope for improving the position just by doing it right . ’ |
| 10 | Keep the tip of the branch upright by tying it securely to a firmly positioned cane . |
| 11 | The the estate agents were finding that they were using these up very quickly by sending them away , also they were rather expensive to send away in the post and we were not prepared to put , er we were n't getting the income to survive on that . |
| 12 | But the question whether a particular thing exists in reality is a factual one , which can not be settled simply by defining it as necessarily existing . |
| 13 | In consequence , the frogs and toads can stick it out much further than we can , simply by flicking it forward a useful talent for a rather slow-moving hunter without a neck . |
| 14 | If that 's so , then Pooh can get true beliefs about honey just as well by observing it indirectly by observing bees as he can by observing it directly . |
| 15 | If you do n't want to use the server 's printers , then by telling it so , it leaves that code out of the load procedure as well — all very clever . |
| 16 | Under the Williamson scheme , such misalignments are guarded against — first by setting the central rate at the FEER , and then by keeping it there . |
| 17 | The lex fori will be satisfied by proof that the plaintiff has secured the service of the documents on the defendant abroad , either by taking them personally or ( much more usually ) by employing an agent . |
| 18 | It is commonly used to attempt to alter drastically your bargaining position , either by strengthening it directly , or weakening your opponent 's . |
| 19 | In practice , this means that you have to show your own original recordings either by playing them directly off the camcorder onto the colour television , or by first copying them onto one of your table-top machine cassettes for showing along with your other tapes . |
| 20 | In this respect A Shield of Coolest Air will probably hit you harder than any academic book , paradoxically by hitting you more gently . |
| 21 | Mrs Gaskell , who knew much better than Jane Austen how the poor really lived , and saw that her readers knew it too by taking them inside ( at least in towns ) , nevertheless allows her heroine , Margaret , to take pleasure in sketching the exterior of a squatter cottage which is due for demolition in the New Forest . |