Example sentences of "by [v-ing] they [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under that system an entrepreneur would pay the state to utilize the labour of the prisoners , normally by contracting them out to local farms . |
| 2 | What about your taking responsibility for cleaning the room once a week and looking after your clothes by hanging them up ? ’ |
| 3 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 4 | ( iii ) Mechanically remove any follicular cells that remain attached to the eggs by pipetting them in and out of a narrow bore micropipette . |
| 5 | Dustin recalled that the director drove himself and his crew to the limits of endurance by keeping them up half the night , as he was never satisfied with the outcome of one take . |
| 6 | This will best be done by bringing other countries into membership , not by keeping them out . |
| 7 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 8 | On a kill they show no special relish for liver , heart or kidneys by singling them out to eat first as delicacies . |
| 9 | Watford full-back Jason Drysdale aims to hit the champions with the final instalment of a miserable treble by knocking them out of the Coca-Cola Cup at Vicarage Road . |
| 10 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( LLNL ) in California , for instance , was once a naval air station , where in more innocent days the ground crews cleaned engines by hosing them down with carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane ( TCE ) . |
| 11 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 12 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 13 | Like copepods , these 3–4mm brownish worms thrive in overfed aquaria , and can only be eradicated by syphoning them out at every opportunity , which may take months . |
| 14 | Further investigations will be made into these childrens ' inability to count the number of sounds in a word by tapping them out and their failure to perform rhyme judgements : both tasks which have been thought , hitherto , to be essential to adequate sound-letter mapping . |
| 15 | When a liquid freezes , the molecular character of its surface is not too greatly changed and the energy of the surface remains much the same although the surface tension is no longer able to change the shape of small particles by rounding them off into drops . |
| 16 | Now to do that effectively I think it 's essential that I get you to participate in what 's happening so from time to time I 'm going to ask you to answer questions , sometimes by writing them down , sometimes by shows of hands erm sometimes by er reacting back erm to the questions that I ask . |
| 17 | A report circulated in the spring of 1939 admitted that the camps ‘ became slave markets where people with the best intentions in the world went to help one child , yet unconsciously did harm to many by looking them over and rejecting them ’ . |
| 18 | THOUSANDS of Darlington children will learn how to stay safe in dangerous situations by acting them out under police supervision . |
| 19 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 20 | The moral panic crystallises widespread fears and anxieties , and often deals with them not by seeking the real causes of the problems and conditions which they demonstrate but by displacing them on to ‘ Folk Devils ’ in an identified social group ( often the ‘ immoral ’ or ‘ degenerate ’ ) . |
| 21 | Sometimes , particularly where you have a specific audience , the task may be primarily a logistical one — moving them from A to B — and you can solve this by bussing them in . |
| 22 | She found the same curvilinear decoration in several other pieces , and delighted him by picking them out without hesitation from the precise and formal Roman artifacts round them . |
| 23 | To relax the feet totally , start by soaking them in for 20 minutes in some herbal bath salts . |
| 24 | Another major advantage over the thinner types of cladding is that they provide additional insulation to exterior walls ( which can be augmented by fixing them over an extra layer of insulation ) . |
| 25 | Other males try to dislodge the sitting males from the females , by pulling them off . |
| 26 | Andy Parkes tells us how to get large fish at cheaper prices by growing them on . |
| 27 | Creeping plants , such as Java Moss , can be trained into shapes , perhaps by growing them up a trellis , or over suitable-arranged rockwork . |
| 28 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 29 | After development the shots appear in the left-hand window , and you can place them on the main picture by moving them around and pressing fire . |
| 30 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |