Example sentences of "[vb -s] by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 2 | Spenser 's texts increase their expressive power within subsequent literary cultures , finding their own power increases by being reflected in later texts which have channelled these Spenserian texts for their own uses . |
| 3 | It is perhaps that Gautier is intent on being ‘ hard ’ ; is intent on conveying a certain verity of feeling , and he ends by being truly poetic . |
| 4 | The Indian had nothing to do but obey ; and whoever has formed the habit of passive obedience ends by being no longer able to act for himself and comes to love the yoke that is laid upon him . |
| 5 | Then we can begin to understand what Paul means by being ‘ in Christ ’ . |
| 6 | Is that what the bible means by being blessed by God ? |
| 7 | A university education should be characterised by the fact that one ‘ learns to learn ’ rather than ‘ learns by being taught ’ . |
| 8 | Position positional isomers branch chain functional group and there 's one other odd one which has a very peculiar name and the name it normally goes by is a fairly old name , now I 'm not sure at this stage if that name is still used but what I 'll do is to describe the form of the isomerism first and let you decide what you would prefer to call it . |
| 9 | He wins by being fair to his people and resisting any selfish and unfair demands on their part . |
| 10 | That 's all it comes by is human learning , and you 're neglecting that , you say , that is you are n't developing a learning society and you 're going to pay for this and pay for this and pay for this , you see , and your children will pay for it , your grandchildren will pay for it , you see , just what you 're doing to the educational system , what you 're doing to the universities and you 're so far behind from what erm most other modern countries are . |
| 11 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 12 | The reader begins by being faintly amused at their sheer improbability ; but after a time the response turns into pained embarrassment . |
| 13 | It begins by being reported , then switches to quotation . |
| 14 | But their definition of ‘ mother ’ begins by being pretty flexible . |
| 15 | It begins by being designed into the product itself . |
| 16 | This is the view that , because criticism works by being directed on existing knowledge claims , it follows that nothing in general can be said about criticism . |
| 17 | She reacts by being more demanding . |