Example sentences of "[noun] by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take striker Dalian Atkinson , who joked afterwards that he got his speed by being chased by dogs as a youngster . |
| 2 | Matching applicants to available jobs — both under- and overqualified employees represent significant risks by being a negative influence on morale ( both their own and their co-workers ' ) . |
| 3 | A grandparent who tries to counteract parents ' own methods by being over-indulgent or strict will only create further problems . |
| 4 | He went to Eastern Infants School where the playing field was a concrete yard and you trained for football by being slammed against a brick wall . |
| 5 | Keeping a diary is a time-consuming activity but you can keep it within manageable bounds by being selective in the events you record . |
| 6 | We can all help people with HIV and AIDS by being thoughtful and considerate . |
| 7 | Leonato , Hero 's father , knowingly compounds confusion by being party to the plot announcing Hero 's death . |
| 8 | Any wood block floor will eventually need some maintenance by being sanded down and resealed . |
| 9 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 10 | On generation , there had been a long-standing debate within the industry , and Citrine felt it was best to avoid any further uncertainty by being firm on the issue . |
| 11 | Those with more of a penchant for market relations will ‘ tend to deal with uncertainty by being highly flexible and evolutionary in their patterns of strategic change ’ . |
| 12 | Cyert and March have demonstrated the significance of an ability to absorb uncertainty by being in a position to distil , filter and transmit information ( Cyert and March 1963 ) . |
| 13 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 14 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 15 | To avoid delaying the progress of a study by being too concerned with defining the environment or other CATWOE elements correctly , it may be necessary to merge some real-world facts with the systems thinking , for example by considering the relationships between the group being studied and other parts of the organisation , and setting the system boundary accordingly . |
| 16 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 17 | Earlier I drew a distinction between sexism that occurs in ‘ unregulated ’ contexts ( like the use of endearment terms to women ) and that which has acquired the force of a rule by being written on the linguistic equivalent of tablets of stone , the dictionary and the grammar book or usage guide . |
| 18 | Dealing with guilt for past behaviour by making direct amends to those who have been harmed , dealing with shame by accepting one 's self as having an illness and therefore worthy of self-forgiveness , and dealing with damaged relationships by being honest , open-minded and willing , all help to reestablish the general sense of well-being that is the hallmark of someone in recovery . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We may construct defences for our sensibility by being deliberately offensive , diminishing others and not listening to them . |
| 21 | The diode D1 now comes into the action by being suddenly forward biased , so providing a path for the current from the inductor to flow around the loop into the filter capacitor and the load . |
| 22 | Erm resistance one plus resistance two divide by is it ? |
| 23 | It is seen to help the designers of tomorrow cross the industrial and academic divide by being involved with a commercially successful design team . |
| 24 | Up until the Seventies conventional playing of the spinners dictated that the batsman should be over the ball by dint of footwork or the bat smothering the spin by being in front of the front pad . |
| 25 | Eyes down again to the book , he went on , ‘ All sharpened staves for use in traps ( and also spears and arrows ) can be hardened to increase their powers of penetration by being charred lightly in hot embers , a process which tightens and toughens the wood fibres . ’ ’ |
| 26 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 27 | He had pleased both parents by being obviously happy . |
| 28 | For example , one person may find it nice to be rewarded for good work by being taken out to a slap-up dinner and another person may be embarrassed by the whole business and have preferred a quiet word of thanks . |
| 29 | Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside . |
| 30 | The novel 's apocalyptic ending takes on a universal dimension by being implicitly compared to a nuclear holocaust . |