Example sentences of "by [v-ing] be " in BNC.

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1 The cells isolated by panning were heavily coated with the beads , indicating that a functional antibody fragment was displayed on the surface of the transfected cells .
2 The five Cabinet members who indicated their sympathy for the abolitionist cause by abstaining were : Cripps , Bevan , Arthur Creech Jones , Philip Noel-Baker and Harold Wilson .
3 This amounts to 6 million annually and because of elevated ground-water levels its removal by leaching is impaired .
4 Then each discharger made application for consent and simply by applying was ‘ deemed ’ to have it .
5 Short-term gains by cheating are likely to be offset by long-term losses that may affect one 's offspring and those of relatives .
6 The systemic induction of pin activity by wounding was correlated on 46 out of 49 occasions with a systemic electrical signal .
7 Damage by eruption was not foreseeable in the circumstances but damage by splashing was .
8 Learning by remembering is applied in many situations and under different names .
9 He sang aloud , in what he amused himself by imagining was a passable accent , ‘ Oh you tak the high road and I 'll tak the low .
10 Disturbances induced by swallowing were edited from the UOS pressure tracing by excluding pressures from four seconds before to six seconds after swallows .
11 Three Court of Appeal judges held that the ruling by racing 's controlling body was not open to judicial review .
12 I think the war was a very sad , necessary step , and to take it further by rejoicing is not a good thing .
13 I 'm not gon na insult you by asking are you really that old .
14 Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn .
15 The 1000 or so members of the meek class who presented themselves at the conference , were , suitably enough , unruffled by having been shunted from the Sorbonne to the techno-chic sidings at Porte de la Villette .
16 Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen .
17 If not all temporary workers are distinguishable by having been recruited for a pre-determined period of time , we might ask how they are distinguishable .
18 It is true that marriage is , or may be , a detriment to the plaintiff ; but detriment to the plaintiff is not enough , unless it either be a benefit to the testator , or be treated by the testator as such , by having been suffered at his request .
19 And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything .
20 ‘ Nothing which is not either documented by photograph or clearly indicated by surviving is replaced .
21 By powering is meant raising to the power of ; thus , the single ( scalar ) quantity two can be raised to the power of three to give the answer eight .
22 Developing a relationship by talking is about creating an atmosphere where you both can gain something .
23 Growth by suckering is merely an extension of its own life ; it achieves reproduction by producing seeds which are encased in the edible fruit so fondly admired by birds .
24 The road that has been made to carry visitors up to it is wide and smooth , the valley of the Arette that you start by following is beautiful , and the scene once you reach the top is by turns surprising , interesting and panoramic .
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