Example sentences of "[adv] by [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 2 | We have made our policies absolutely clear , not just by asserting that we have it in mind to take action , but by stating what we have planned and by making announcements for new equipment and new forces . |
| 3 | Just by knowing that they exist and knowing that if I went to places whether it 's a bookshop or a coffee shop or a pub or the streets of Brixton or Tescos or Budgens in Crouch End you bump into people you know or might know . |
| 4 | You do n't necessarily get a better job with a performance spec than you would simply by specifying that you had more cuts because in er in a slow growing year , if you like , the contractor actually gains because he does n't need to cut so many times to comply with a maximum of a hundred millimetres length , whereas if you 've got an eleven level cut you would actually have a continuous length of grass , much shorter , so it would look smarter . |
| 5 | But surely , a speaker could have conveyed an impression of athleticism simply by saying that they sprinted up the hill . |
| 6 | He tried to fudge the issue earlier by saying that he did not want to specify periods . |
| 7 | I put this earlier by saying that I do not believe that the causal nexus of nature or that of history could be broken . |
| 8 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |