Example sentences of "by [v-ing] to [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that the answer to this can be found by looking to theories of the family and to legal structures . |
| 2 | I recently heard Alan Bennett talking about the humour in his plays and he said that he began to develop his ear for the ridiculous simply by listening to members of his family . |
| 3 | Quinn will work himself into the right mood for the game by listening to tapes of his favourite Beatles music beforehand — not that he needs too much extra motivation . |
| 4 | On the journey I heard sporadic gunfire and by listening to snatches of conversation between my guards , gathered that Amal guerrillas were fighting yet again with Shia militia , the Hezbollah . |
| 5 | Mr McNeill will spend his final evening in-post tomorrow by talking to members of Strathclyde Community Relations Council about his comments , which brought accusations of his holding blatantly racist views . |
| 6 | They held that there is a limited set of fundamental ethical terms , such as good , bad , right , wrong , ought , duty , such that you can not explain what one of them amounts to except either by appealing to intuition of some simple non-natural property , or relation , to which it refers or by defining it by way of some other ethical term of which this is true . |
| 7 | They deny , however , that anything useful is added by referring to states of the brain in terms of awareness or consciousness , or even as representations of the environment . |
| 8 | The appeal for tolerance by gesturing to lists of Famously Artistic Homosexuals is one of the classic tropes of gay self-justification — it goes ‘ Sappho , Michaelangelo , Shakespeare … and me ’ — and it needs always to be resisted because it seeks to extend contemporary definitions of sexuality back to incorporate historical periods when categorizations of the sexual were quite different . |