Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 3 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 4 | It is a sign of Marx 's and Engels 's intellectual courage that they put these laws to the test by seeing whether they accorded with what was then known about early cultures . |
| 5 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 6 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 7 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 8 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 9 | But Georgie then pulled a master-stroke by revealing that she had a talent for automatic writing . |
| 10 | He was so embarrassed , and she could n't make the sting of it even worse by refusing when he suggested dining at the resort restaurant instead . |
| 11 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 12 | She shrugged casually , hating to spoil the impression of intimacy between herself and Piers by confessing that he had told her nothing . |
| 13 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 14 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 15 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |
| 16 | Certainly the most important thing should be that I 'm happy with my paintings , but I 'd by lying if I said I did n't care what other people said . |
| 17 | I would n't insult their intelligence by lying and we had a healthy respect for each other . |
| 18 | As it was , the ‘ smokeless shimmer of vapour ’ was so cooled by cleaning that it drifted across the river to cause mischief with the leadwork on Wren 's great dome . |
| 19 | He had infuriated the government by calling publicly for the resignation of Foreign Minister Geza Jeszenszky , whom he described as incompetent , and by complaining that he had been forced to lie to US politicians about the sale of Hungarian weapons to Croatia . |
| 20 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 21 | However , by proceeding as he did , the judge was no longer holding the ring . |
| 22 | On the facts of Modupe the accused was guilty of inducing his creditors to wait for payment when he had obtained credit by stating that he owned property when he did not and by exaggerating his employment status . |
| 23 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 24 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 25 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 26 | He opened by stating that he felt ‘ that a complete separation of crime from sin would not be good for the moral law and might be disastrous for the criminal ’ . |
| 27 | Edward made his own views clear by stating that he regarded the 1328 treaty as invalid because it had been made when he was a minor and under the tutelage of others and that his title to the overlordship of Scotland should be reasserted . |
| 28 | By stating that he intended to fulfil his contractual obligations by repaying the loan , there arose the question whether he was dishonest in giving a false name . |
| 29 | The man was overcoming his feelings of inferiority by demonstrating that he had the strength of will to remain on the bank , unperturbed , while the child drowned . |
| 30 | In more extreme manner we might wish to register our displeasure at the felling of a row of fine trees for a road-widening project by saying that they had the right to be left in peace . |