Example sentences of "by [v-ing] one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can make the most of your stay in Brighton & Hove by contacting one of the Tourist Information Centres . |
| 2 | Velvet can be cured by using one of the proprietary remedies on the market . |
| 3 | By using one of the Pythagoras 's theorem . |
| 4 | An accountant has poled his way into the record books by becoming one of the most successful punters of all time . |
| 5 | The company 's attempts to mislead the public simply highlight how it profits by wrecking one of the Earth 's greatest natural treasures . " |
| 6 | Once the cursor has been positioned at the required place on the screen its position can be locked by pressing one of the ‘ ears ’ . |
| 7 | By replacing one of the sulphur atoms in an ring by RC , it was hoped to retain the same electronic properties of and , by changing the substituent R , a systematic study of the physical and chemical properties of this type of heterocycle could be done . |
| 8 | Any attempt to use the scriptures to vindicate the slave trade was thus bound to provoke energetic efforts by abolitionists to controvert the arguments ; failure to do so would have yielded an authority to the pro-slave trade position by sacrificing one of the main ways religious reformers had of grasping the essential spirit of the Christian moral order . |
| 9 | In a number of ways they are an elite group who have reached the pinnacle of academic achievement by securing one of the scarce places in one of the 1,054 institutions of higher education . |
| 10 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 11 | have been granted complete exemption by holding one of the following qualifications : |
| 12 | This argument may be exemplified by considering one of the mechanisms through which we deal with the everyday world . |
| 13 | We began by removing one of the primary indicators of ‘ topic-shift ’ available to a writer , that of indenting a line in his text . |
| 14 | For much of this time Holroyd Smith was synonymous with Blackpool , the location of his achievement by installing one of the world 's first sustainable application of electricity to street transport . |
| 15 | Some time after supper Alex finished the discussion by kicking one of the Spaniards in the face . |
| 16 | By cutting one of the polar craft , it could save up to $50 million of its annual budget for the craft of $230 million . |
| 17 | Start , in your aim of gaining experience of running affairs , by joining one of the college societies . |
| 18 | THE INDIAN government tried yesterday to deflect attention from the Bofors corruption scandal by linking one of the fiercest opposition critics of Rajiv Gandhi , the Prime Minister , with shady financial dealing . |
| 19 | To keep Mr Nakayama , Mr Kaifu bought off the Abe faction by surrendering one of the two cabinet posts normally held by the small Komoto faction to which he himself belongs . |
| 20 | The smack has suppressed the wetting behaviour but has done so by suppressing one of the antecedents that led up to it , namely , an approach by Katy to her father . |
| 21 | Enjoy the Forest Experience by taking one of the Forest Drives at Dalby or Newtondale . |
| 22 | The user can select the status of SPRs to be included in the report by entering one of the following values for the SPR Status field : |
| 23 | The user can select the status of SSRs to be included in the report by entering one of the following values for the SSR Status field : |
| 24 | By choosing one of the colours and holding down the shift key , you can then create your own colour , but rather than adding a new colour to the palette this replaces the original . |
| 25 | Only 26 players will qualify for the World Championship , either by winning one of the Majors or one of the official events on the European , Japanese , Australian/New Zealand or Asian Tours . |
| 26 | Choropleth maps using different colours to represent different levels of the mapped variable can be generated by specifying one of the 125 colours to be used as the area fill colour . |
| 27 | Lukács 's concept of reification extends the theory of ideology by showing one of the mechanisms by which it is effective in obscuring class relations . |
| 28 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 29 | In a couple of minutes I had lost any chance of kinship with Sue by making one of the most basic mistakes . |
| 30 | We can envisage creating a new group of instructions by selecting one of the operations already met with , and producing an " iterated " version of it . |