Example sentences of "by [being] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where the winters are cold , the broadleaves contrive to save water in winter , and reduce wind and frost damage , by being deciduous and shedding winter leaves , while conifer leaves tend to have thick cuticles , to be needle-like in form , and are able to withstand the winters . |
| 2 | By being doctrinaire and parochial , it is easy to have a whole host of companies competing in the same home market ; but how many will be effective ( or even in business ) in ten years ' time ? |
| 3 | At the lowest levels this does not matter : syllables can be identified from the text , and syllables group into clitic phrases , consisting of one lexically stressed syllable and any unstressed syllables which are immediately associated with it , either by being in the same word or by being proclitic or enclitic to it . |
| 4 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 5 | He would get to know the cook and ingratiate himself by being agreeable and doing her favours . |
| 6 | A leader can not try to forget that he is the ‘ boss ’ by being friendly and informal with subordinates , or by consulting them before making any decision . |
| 7 | And it 's easier to get along with brother so and so and sister so and so , but for goodness me I find , I find it ever so difficult to talk to sister so and so and there 's an area perhaps that we can er think about , stay awake by being respectful and obedient and that 's something that is very important because it 's completely opposite in the world today , respect for all authority and obedience to it is absolutely gone by the ways I find refrain from criticism and careless talk so there are the main points , but as we say we ca n't go into them all , well , so what we 're going to do is to try and just highlight one or two little areas which we could er enlarge on or put the magnifying glass on , so shall we do that ? |
| 8 | His victory speech started by being vicious and unforgiving — and ended by calling for harmony . |
| 9 | Members however also have an important role to play in this process , by being pro-active and resolute . |
| 10 | We can all help people with HIV and AIDS by being thoughtful and considerate . |
| 11 | Even the most inexperienced nurse can contribute to the care of patients by being thoughtful and helpful to patients , relatives and colleagues . |
| 12 | He led her quickly up a staircase which began by being broad and stone and went on up to twist woodenly to the top of the tower . |
| 13 | Gradually , Alison came to question her core beliefs and realised that , in a moment , she could move from despair to inner peace by being loving and forgiving towards herself . |
| 14 | Fish living on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours . |
| 15 | By contrast , interpersonal skills encourage people to achieve their objectives by being honest and open rather than dishonest and furtive . |
| 16 | We never hurt someone by being honest and genuine . |
| 17 | A woman may feel that if she expressed herself honestly , she would not only lose her partner 's affection but her self-respect by being selfish and unfeminine . |
| 18 | She had had a good time in her twenties : a good job as a doctor 's receptionist ( she had gone against the general rule for the species by being warm and sympathetic , though she stood no more nonsense than was inescapable ) . |
| 19 | It was claimed that unions set out by being radical and militant in their outlook , but then went through a ‘ maturation ’ process , ultimately becoming pragmatic and less militant . |
| 20 | When they make love , she can help by being patient and relaxed as well as responsive to any shared physical closeness , rather than increasing his anxiety to ‘ perform ’ satisfactorily . |
| 21 | The concept of structure is replaced in Derrida 's writing by the concept of a chain of signification which avoids the dangers implicit in the notion of structure : by being open-ended and non-teleological it does away with any idea of a commanding entity within the system , and by having a temporal as well as a spatial dimension it can not itself be reduced to the status of entity or object . |
| 22 | But the relevant changes are further defined by being unintended and at least to some extent beyond the control of the societies they affected , either because of their intrinsic character , or because of the scale on which they occurred . |
| 23 | A day 's detecting can often be spoilt , or even cut short , by feelings of physical discomfort brought on by being cold and wet . |
| 24 | He shows it by being angry and rude all the time to everyone . |
| 25 | If you have influenced others in the past by being enthusiastic and emotional , you may find it uncomfortable to start using logic . |
| 26 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 27 | So , of course you might be running into trouble by doing too much , by being over-zealous and when you do things , or you may also be inviting criticism and inviting the , the great fickle hand of of bureaucratic power down upon you by doing too little too late , and that 's often the , that 's often the criticism which people in your profession and several other professions get accused of . |
| 28 | A grandparent who tries to counteract parents ' own methods by being over-indulgent or strict will only create further problems . |
| 29 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 30 | Just because you 're looking for win win relationships all the time that does n't mean that you 're gon na get walked over all the time because by being assertive and by this is this is really what I want , what is it that you want and looking , listening to the other person 's point of view as well as making sure your point of view goes across as well somewhere , somewhere in all of that through all this down here , there 's a way of finding something for both people . |