Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You solve this one by taking the Holiday Inn airport bus , buying a drink there to salve your conscience , and crossing the street to pick up a local bus . |
| 2 | If you want to skip the first quest in The Legend of Zelda on the NES , you can go straight on to the second one by entering Zelda as your name on the initial screen . |
| 3 | As for eventual negotiations on political reform , the ANC has already partially pre-empted them by drafting its own programme , which was endorsed this summer by the Organisation of African Unity and leaders of non-aligned countries . |
| 4 | Often makers try pulling a fast one by giving a tractor a number that 's bigger than its actual horsepower . |
| 5 | He even intimated that they had tried to corrupt him by sending female temptresses to seduce him in his Cambridge rooms . |
| 6 | We can reduce the problem to a one-dimensional one by claiming that the plates are infinitely large . |
| 7 | Their nihilism is jumbled up with a mystical affirmation of experience ( horror for the Buttholes is awe-full ) but also with humour ( they 've advanced through parodying successive rock idioms , exaggeration improving each one by making it more extreme ) . |
| 8 | You can help ensure that the vehicle you buy is not a stolen one by taking a few simple precautions : |
| 9 | And you can then also couple between keyboards so that if you want to you can play the sounds from this keyboard on the lower one by coupling the two together and making them work as a pair , but that removes the inde independency of being able to set one against the other . |
| 10 | Thus the operator stack forms a new state from the current one by deleting the facts on ( x , table ) clear(y) adding the fact on ( x , y ) and unstack works by deleting the fact on ( x , y ) adding the facts on ( x , table ) clear(y) |
| 11 | GKR are trying to make the business an international one by opening in Japan and in Germany , and hope to build an international business of wholly-owned subsidiaries of GKR . |
| 12 | My New Year resolution is to make the postman 's lot a more fulfilling one by reading press releases . |
| 13 | I become more myself by knowing and loving , and being known and loved by , God the Father , Christ the Son and the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit . |
| 14 | It is widely known that there are harmful effects from inhalation of outfall from a lead works ; for children who ingest it by licking lead-painted toys ; and for families whose drinking water is supplied through lead pipes . |
| 15 | Bill Morrison was posted here during the war and amazed everyone by contacting the hotel in 1991 to return one of their beer glasses which he had had since waiting at the bar one night during the way only to have them run out of beer . |
| 16 | That was the morning — jealousy again — you outraged me by sharing coffee with me , and daring to mention another man , ’ he recollected . |
| 17 | Then was down in Middlesbrough for a couple of days that week , and er , I think amused everybody by calling it miserable all the time , I dread to think what . |
| 18 | Prior to the 1970s , the penal system could plausibly legitimate itself by claiming as its raison d'être the rehabilitation of offenders , the provision of training and treatment which would cure them of their criminality , benefiting both them and society as a whole . |
| 19 | We could raise at least half the cost of a new one by selling the old one . |
| 20 | Sainsbury 's felt it could not justify investment at either of these locations and instead surprised everyone by buying land at Parc Menai which has already got planning consent for a hotel and conference centre . |
| 21 | Nearly everyone came down according to plan , but Sgt Paul Flood surprised everyone by missing the drop zone and coming down behind the crowd . |