Example sentences of "[vb past] by [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dots represent the original data ; the lines represent the same function ( equation ( 1 ) ) transformed by using known anisotropy to scale x . |
| 2 | A spatial analysis of calcium release triggered by applying increasing doses of InsP 3 to Xenopus oocytes revealed the existence of hot spots , confirming that the InsP 3 -sensitive stores were not uniformly sensitive . |
| 3 | The Farrers were generous benefactors , providing the inhabitants with electricity from a private turbine at the waterfall and contributing generously to the common good , but most notably in the lovely environs they created by planting natural woodlands , and constructing a lake and other amenities on their extensive estate nearby . |
| 4 | I found by adapting that approach erm I 've been able to help clients in such areas as er tax saving or making their money work that little bit harder for them . |
| 5 | Landi wrote his own libretto and innovated by introducing comic relief in the unlikely person of Charon , who sings w hat is probably the earliest of all bu–o arias . |
| 6 | So she economized by drinking cheap cooking sherry . |
| 7 | There were over 70 million cars on the roads , many of them used by commuting middle-class Americans who were escaping in ever-increasing numbers from the over-crowded city centres to the more comfortable suburbs . |
| 8 | This vow he fulfilled by granting extensive estates to Bishop Wilfrid . |
| 9 | The people replied by crying three times , ‘ Let it be done . ’ |
| 10 | Coventry replied by offering four tickets for the corresponding fixture next season . |
| 11 | He began by welcoming each man by name . |
| 12 | Howards began by manufacturing fine chemicals , especially the antimalarial drug quinine and its derivatives , for the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 13 | She began by bringing progressional groups and users together on a localised basis to develop a community level of provision . |
| 14 | End your massage the same way you began by placing one hand on your partner 's head and the other at the base of the spine and then at the feet . |
| 15 | They began by testing 403 children on their ability to pick the odd one out of a list like ‘ hill , pig , pin ’ . |
| 16 | When performing this same task for forty minutes after sleep loss subjects began by showing faster responses to the centrally placed lights than the peripheral ones , like rested subjects . |
| 17 | He began by giving official passports to Jews who could claim some vague connection with Sweden , and ended by thrusting , in defiance of the Gestapo , cyclostyled papers bearing his signature into the hands of anyone he could reach , in the cattle trucks in railway sidings or along the road as the tragic columns struggled by . |
| 18 | He began by giving several examples of how Governments in both West and East Europe had obtained major United Motors ' investment projects by highly discriminatory and blatantly unfair means , which had operated to the detriment of the UK . |
| 19 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 20 | The findings were , essentially , that those rats or students receiving the uncontrollable unpleasant experience began by making determined efforts to stop or escape it , but after a lack of success , eventually became passive and helpless . |
| 21 | The rest of the morning flew by watching other teams rehearse , looking over our surroundings and renewing acquaintances with team members from other areas , not seen since the Festival of Movement at the Albert Hall in 1978 . |
| 22 | He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music , a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time . |
| 23 | He started by sketching numerous frescoes and statuettes he found in the Hermitage Museum , Leningrad . |
| 24 | Indeed the Irish performance bore little resemblance to the confident efforts of acknowledged Sevens experts and defending champions Fiji , who ran all over and around Malaysia to win the opening game 49–0 , or Australia , who started by scoring 47 points while conceding a lone try to Singapore . |
| 25 | A suffragi went by carrying two sherry glasses on a silver tray . |
| 26 | But the Home Office retaliated by announcing new plans to move the prison 150 yards closer to the hospital . |
| 27 | But the Home Office retaliated by announcing new plans to move the prison 150 yards closer to the hospital . |
| 28 | He took the Lombard crown and then , in 800 , became the first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire that he formed by annexing central Italy . |
| 29 | Daisy is having her long golden hair plaited by giggling young women . |
| 30 | Mary responded by cancelling all bonds made against the Arran agreement . |