Example sentences of "to [noun] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless very dense , the shady conditions produced by most garden trees can be turned to advantage by creating a miniature woodland that will suit shade-loving plants and offer a cool oasis in a hot summer . |
| 2 | Much damage was done to Hull by bombing in the Second World War , and the site of its first dock , built in the eighteenth century , is now a garden . |
| 3 | Any or all of the program group boxes can themselves be reduced to icons by clicking on the downward facing arrow in the top right-hand corner of the screen or by selecting MINIMISE . |
| 4 | This pattern dated originally from the Middle Ages when the towns were able to purchase their right to self-government by paying an impecunious Crown for a charter . |
| 5 | Not only did trader and master subvert that sense and render the victims of the Middle Passage ‘ incapable of deriving any benefit from Christianity ’ but slave trading and slavery were a context conducive to sinfulness by loosening constraints on passion . |
| 6 | This chapter seeks to distinguish arbitration from references to experts by considering : ( 1 ) confusion between whether references have been to experts or arbitrators ( 15.2 ) ; ( 2 ) how the court interprets express words in the contract about a referee 's status ( 15.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the guidelines for assessing the referee 's status ( 15.4 – 15.9 ) ; ( 4 ) the procedural differences between arbitrations and references to experts ( 15.10 ) ; ( 5 ) the different consequences of an expert 's decision and an arbitration award ( 15.11 ) . |
| 7 | With due humility , Mozart recorded another debt to Haydn by dedicating to the older composer the six finest of his 23 string quartets . |
| 8 | Imagine introducing young people to molecules by giving them wooden cubes as atoms and dowel rods as bonds . |
| 9 | Boniface wrote to Ecgberht , archbishop of York , authorizing him to amend the letter in any way he thought desirable , and to Herefrith , a priest , who was to make known Boniface 's views to Aethelbald by reading the letter to him and explaining it — Herefrith being one to whom Aethelbald was prepared to listen . |
| 10 | Brenda now switches back to Creole by completing her original sequence with the word she was missing , pronounced as in Creole : crablouse . |
| 11 | Contract silaging needs high horsepower tractors and Mr Tomlinson had already boosted the output of the farm 's Ford 6700 tractor from 80 to 175hp by putting a turbo-charged 6-cylinder lorry engine in it . |
| 12 | John Newsom , who later became my friend , endeared himself to headmasters by asserting the principle that as much freedom as possible in the running of schools should be delegated to heads — even although , or perhaps because , he well knew that many of them were rogues . |
| 13 | And this month it looked like losing any semblance of true commercial independence when its two biggest shareholders , Spain 's El Pais and Italy 's La Repubblica newspaper groups , said they may be forced to increase their joint stake to 50% by investing more money in it . |
| 14 | Once again Britten keeps his grip on the music with the help of a formal scheme , this time a rondo with episodes the third of which alludes directly to Grimes by quoting the two distinct themes of his phrase , " What harbour shelters peace , away from tidal waves , away from storms " [ 10 ] , followed by a pointed combination of his next theme , " With her there 'll be no quarrels " , with one of the most agitated of the semitonal storm motifs ( almost the next time Peter and Ellen meet on stage they do quarrel ) . |
| 15 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 16 | Brenda Bennett , branch manager Healthcare Beckton , decided the time and place was right to change her name to Bol by marrying Pete . |
| 17 | Dr George Carey held out an olive branch to opponents by saying clergy opposed to women priests would not be barred from becoming bishops . |
| 18 | To Riego liberalism had been installed solely by officers : civilians had missed any title to glory by failing to raise Cadiz after the army had pronounced . |
| 19 | They deconstructed our clear path to freedom by turning us on ourselves . |
| 20 | SCIENTISTS on Orkney will today attempt to use sexual attraction to lead six male sperm whales to freedom by playing them female whale song to tempt them into the open sea . |
| 21 | The media has added another dimension to racism by accusing Africans of importing AIDS . |
| 22 | The tower was soon in the way of traffic and was taken down by Mowlem who brought it , minus the clock , to Swanage by sailing ship where it was re-erected in 1868 in the grounds of The Grove , later greatly extended as the Grosvenor Hotel , and now to be redeveloped as marine residences . |
| 23 | LEAs would not he able to restrict admissions to schools by using artificial admissions limits . |
| 24 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 25 | My fear of a remote danger may be almost driven from mind by current emotions ; but to decide to take precautions I need no more than the faint tremor as I glimpse what the consequences of neglect would be like , I do not have to maintain the stimulus to action by living in constant terror until the danger has passed . |
| 26 | The declaration by the Supreme Soviet in Byelorussia closely resembled the Ukrainian declaration , but alluded to secession by ascribing to the republic the right to " voluntary unions with other states , and free withdrawal from such unions " . |
| 27 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
| 28 | In particular the Royal Society of Art and the Glasgow School of Art , giving support and encouragement to designers by recognising outstanding ability . |
| 29 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |
| 30 | Provided that all the members comply with each Compulsory Sale Notice , the Seller shall sell the Selling Shares to the Proposed Purchaser on Completion , subject at all times to the Seller being able to withdraw the Selling Notice at any time prior to Completion by giving notice to the Company to that effect , whereupon each Compulsory Transfer Notice shall cease to have effect . |