Example sentences of "but by [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CAB welfare worker can not predict exact dates but by looking at a client 's circumstances he or she can give some indication . |
| 2 | We can appreciate one reason for this if we examine the question , not from the viewpoint of symptoms used to try to distinguish schizophrenia from affective psychosis , but by looking at the underlying psychological processes that are responsible for the two states . |
| 3 | Notice that , although I have just summarized some of the teacher 's predicament that I described in Chapter 2 , we have arrived at the summary by a different route : not by reporting what people say , but by looking at the inevitable consequences of working in a demanding situation . |
| 4 | But by looking at the clues of the building we can see that it was there . |
| 5 | I think that this is best explained , not by looking at lots of particular theories , but by looking at one as an example of how the basic problem — how cumulative selection got its start — might be solved . |
| 6 | But by looking at this document here , it would appear there 's been more violence committed there against lawful pickets and yet that does n't make the national press . |
| 7 | You 've got , you 'd have to decide , but by looking at that , you could then start to tick off the things that that would help to solve . |
| 8 | It is difficult sometimes to ascertain Miller 's views on an issue , but by looking at he consequences of people 's actions in this play , we can see something of the way he feels regarding the issues addressed . |
| 9 | Tracy is on social security but by living at home she even manages to save a little . |
| 10 | But by stepping into the role the daughter ensures homeostasis within the family . |
| 11 | These stated : ‘ Everybody who calls himself or herself a Christian must now rally to the side of Christ and defend Him , not only with their rosaries and prayers but by protesting in a public and persistent manner against this film . ’ |
| 12 | There are various ways in which this might be done , but by prescribing in advance the appropriate penalty for a whole range of offender/offence combinations , they are all based on a much more systematic approach than could ever be achieved by a system of appellate review ( including the Court of Appeal 's attempt to formulate a series of ‘ guide-line judgements ’ ) . |
| 13 | Cocaine subverts the pathway not by binding to dopamine receptors , but by sticking to a molecule called , inelegantly , the dopamine re-uptake transporter . |
| 14 | He was manipulating her shamelessly and it was intensely irritating that he had homed in so accurately on the most effective way of doing it — not by bullying , but by appealing to her competitive instincts . |
| 15 | The way forward for the Bar is not by the retention of monopolistic practices but by competing on quality cost and marketing — not my words but those of , the Chairman of the Legal Services Committee . |
| 16 | But by hiding in the term ‘ inner city ’ the novel appears as perennial , the strange appears to be familiar . |
| 17 | ‘ But by transferring from external to internal costs , we 've got a far more focused resource . ’ |
| 18 | Of course people do n't talk like this , but by concentrating on whole sentences the amplified vibration reinforces and strengthens the rhythm and sensation of speech . |
| 19 | The production is adequate , but by concentrating on tight arrangements , spontaneity is lost , and there is a subsequent lack of immediacy . |
| 20 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 21 | What they really refer to and bring to expression is his meaning for us ; and their significance is to be grasped afresh , not by their simple repetition , but by returning behind them to the history of Jesus ' life and teaching , and to the message of his cross and resurrection . |
| 22 | The tsar was personally reassured by the kaiser but by adding to the shadowy Dreikaiserbund a special relationship with Austria-Hungary , Bismarck had begun the slow elaboration of alliances which were to divide Europe more and more down to 1914 . |
| 23 | I was intrigued recently to read an interview with Roman Polanski , the film director , in which he claimed that he learns languages not by learning tracts of vocabulary , but by playing at the sounds of a new language , first speaking a " gibberish " version of it , finding out what it feels like to be making those sounds and those speech patterns . |
| 24 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 25 | The counsellor as ‘ historian ’ is perhaps an unusual view , but by travelling through an individual 's life history , and especially when making a physical record through family albums , scrapbooks , memorabilia , and genealogies , the counsellor is in effect producing an important autobiography which serves both functions . |
| 26 | His successor , President Patricio Aylwin , has coped with that legacy not by trying soldiers for military murders , but by waiting for General Pinochet to discredit himself , as he is rapidly doing . |
| 27 | Explanation flows not from analysis of archaeological data but by reasoning on the basis of what seems most likely given the manner in which the data has been presented . |
| 28 | He had once , fearfully , climbed the three steps to Mrs Curdle 's caravan and had gazed , fascinated , at the glory within , the half-door had been shut , but by standing on tiptoe he had seen the shelves , the tiny drawers , the cupboards , the gleaming brass and copper and the rows of vividly painted plates as breathtakingly lovely to the child as the bright birds which he had seen the week before at the Zoo , sitting motionless upon their perches , in a splendour of tropical plumage . |
| 29 | But by focusing on a particular selection of empirical evidence , the book seems to shift the blame from the poor and the underclass to women and to their lack of available , acceptable marriage partners . |
| 30 | But by focusing on the way party leaderships and their organisational structures block the road to realignment on the left , Hall passes over the fundamental weakness of radical culture in British civil society . |