Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can all help people with HIV and AIDS by being thoughtful and considerate . |
| 2 | On generation , there had been a long-standing debate within the industry , and Citrine felt it was best to avoid any further uncertainty by being firm on the issue . |
| 3 | Fisher objected that an Archbishop of York ought not to encourage illegality by being present at the requiem ; and , painfully for himself , felt under a duty of conscience not to attend the memorial service . |
| 4 | For others it is sufficient to look or act like a gouger by being rough-looking and dirty or disrespectful to and disliking the police , ‘ giving lip ’ and swearing , coming from ‘ a problem family ’ and being of low intelligence ( ‘ not all there ’ , ‘ air getting in ’ , ‘ not right ’ , ‘ a few bricks short of a full load ’ ) . |
| 5 | It is seen to help the designers of tomorrow cross the industrial and academic divide by being involved with a commercially successful design team . |
| 6 | Fish living on the sea bottom benefit by being flat and hugging the contours . |
| 7 | It is important to be clear that the Deity does not lose its transcendence by being immanent . |
| 8 | But would , should we compound the issue by being cruel to the animal kingdom ? |
| 9 | He hesitated to spoil the mood by being inquisitive , though he wanted so much to gain her confidence ; to make her an ally in the search for the truth — if there was a truth . |
| 10 | Gradually , Alison came to question her core beliefs and realised that , in a moment , she could move from despair to inner peace by being loving and forgiving towards herself . |
| 11 | He is that rare thing , a chap who 's made a hit by being passive . |
| 12 | Yet his new biographer , Andrew Roberts , demonstrates ( with the aid of much newly-available archive material ) that once he realised his hopes of avoiding war by being nice to Hitler were doomed and dangerous , Halifax was just as relentless in his anti-appeasement stance . |
| 13 | It has the advantage that the user is given a feeling of security by being concerned only with a limited range of immediate decisions . |
| 14 | If I stick up for myself he either ignores me or suggests that I 'm being impertinent and that I risk losing my job by being out-spoken . |
| 15 | The shop , now double the size it was a year ago , was ‘ very healthily up ’ , and could now take advantage of the last minute frenzy by being able to accommodate more people inside . |
| 16 | avoid future misunderstandings and dissatisfaction by being honest with the candidate and making sure that any disadvantages of the job are clearly understood ; |
| 17 | He gave confidence by being forthright . |
| 18 | This means that profits on oil income will be treated like gains from any other business by being subject to normal corporation tax . |
| 19 | MAKE SURE YOUR CLUB HAS A VOICE AND A VOTE IN THIS HISTORIC PROCESS BY BEING PRESENT ON 17TH MARCH . |
| 20 | All they are doing is trying to hide their own ignorance about Jesus and the Bible by being rude to you ! |
| 21 | Some of the contents and objects , we can take it , are distinguished from the rest by being representative . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't until he hurt my pride by being impervious to my girlish charms . |
| 23 | Against : almost nothing I can put my finger on , except that it 's a darned expensive guitar and I expected it to justify its price by being inspiring — which , for all of us who tried it , it somehow failed to be . |
| 24 | Dave had had just the right amount of drink , he had n't been tempted to display his superior knowledge in argument ; he had n't produced any slanderous gossip , he had n't felt it necessary to demonstrate his virility by being overattentive to someone else 's wife . |
| 25 | Cross-cultural studies have demonstrated that Bantu mothers establish night and day dryness by 5 to 6 months of age by being aware of their child 's signs ( de Vries and de Vries 1977 ) . |
| 26 | But while many small traders blame the lenders for many of their difficulties Mr Miller says the Royal Bank of Scotland has helped him through the downturn by being flexible . |
| 27 | If you have influenced others in the past by being enthusiastic and emotional , you may find it uncomfortable to start using logic . |
| 28 | ‘ A girl does n't get a man by being brainy , ’ Mrs Wormwood said . |
| 29 | That 's one of the very important advantages of this election result , and personally I think the Social Democrats in Germany made a great mistake by being equivocal on this issue . |
| 30 | " Fools attract elil by being easy prey , " said Bigwig , cleaning the mud out of his whiskers and blowing through his long front teeth . |