Example sentences of "[v-ing] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From my place in the queue I watched through a chink between two lockers the ladder party assembling by the window . |
| 2 | The west end of the south aisle is separated off , opening by a small pointed door to the west of the aisle , and contains a small single window , trefoiled , with iron bars . |
| 3 | I was nearly frantic , and ran about the house naked , endeavouring by every means to excite sensations in different parts of my body , and so to weaken the enemy by creating division . |
| 4 | The defence , by contrast , called only one witness , as five others who were willing to testify in favour of Gotti were disqualified from appearing by the presiding judge . |
| 5 | then landing by the shoes of other passengers . |
| 6 | This is a very central issue for any sociology of the global system in so far as it makes the difference between a dismal chronicle of inevitability , which is absolutely not my intention , and an attempt to illuminate what is happening by a theory of what makes it happen and , by implication , what could make other things happen in other ways . |
| 7 | The events described in this sentence fall within the set of events described as happening by the end of the week ( in 4 ) . |
| 8 | There 've been sixteen escapes in the last two years and staff blame underfunding by the Home Office . |
| 9 | The rest would have their grants ending by the end of September . |
| 10 | The applicants in the main proceedings stated in that connection that there were ‘ traditional communities ’ of fishermen resident in the United Kingdom which there might arguably be a case for protecting by a requirement relating to the residence of the crew or ‘ operators ’ of fishing vessels . |
| 11 | Patients were dying by the hundreds , but there was nobody to carry away the corpses . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't like the idea of dying by the law , ’ said Silver . |
| 13 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 14 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 15 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 16 | Whether it 's rape by a former boyfriend , abuse by an older authority figure , repeated groping by a brother or cousin , or assault by a casual acquaintance , the emotional scars go deep and a woman 's life can be destroyed if she does n't get help in coping . |
| 17 | This assembles the finest examples of woodcarving by the Asmat , selected from the collections in Leiden 's National Museum of Ethnography and other museums , and emphasising the striking modernity of much of this art . |
| 18 | The need for such longitudinal research into the structure of career opportunities is made pressing by the present and likely future decline in promotion opportunities in the UK . |
| 19 | The ladies in the billiard room kept a small fire of smashed furniture smouldering by the window and occasionally burned camphor in an attempt to palliate this tormenting odour . |
| 20 | Highland cut its own output of new whisky for blending by a quarter . |
| 21 | PAMELA overhears some of the ensuing scene but is prevented from interrupting by the CARDINAL and the FOX ] |
| 22 | It can be seen that this vowel is most often represented in spelling by the letters ‘ i ’ and ‘ e ’ . |
| 23 | Nor should the temporary protection which the survey vessel was acquiring by the signalling process extend to any other object in contiguous space . |
| 24 | It is fairly well known that Martin bought the Swedish Levin Guitar factory in the 1970s and that Levin had ceased trading by the end of that decade . |
| 25 | A spokeswoman said yesterday that the exact timescales depended on finding suitable alternative properties for the current occupiers of the builders ' yard , but the development is expected to be open for trading by the summer of next year . |
| 26 | This is a classic walk through the western Peak District taking in Shining Tor and Cats Tor and returning by the reservoirs and woodlands of Goyt Valley . |
| 27 | This evening , returning by the lane , I met the same cat . |
| 28 | From here , instead of returning by the same route , it is possible to descend the mountain 's opposite side by taking the other cog-wheel railway from the Rigi Kulm to Arth , the bottom station near the Arth-Goldau junction station on the Swiss Federal Railway main line from Luzern , Basel , Zurich and the Gotthard line . |
| 29 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 30 | Instead of returning by the old fence , however , ( which looked much worse from the top ) , I continued down the main ridge until the final spur , but this was just as steep . |