Example sentences of "by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A graduate student in mechanical engineering is president of a company which last year made $1 million by manufacturing a machine that cleans and decontaminates microprocessor chips for Silicon Valley 's semiconductor firms . |
| 2 | When essential papers had failed to come through to Prague , Chadwick had decided to cut corners by manufacturing a few of his own . |
| 3 | It frightens off greenfly by manufacturing their alarm chemicals itself . |
| 4 | Howards began by manufacturing fine chemicals , especially the antimalarial drug quinine and its derivatives , for the pharmaceutical industry . |
| 5 | He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies . |
| 6 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |
| 7 | A woman who wishes to achieve an enjoyable life by accumulating wealth is likewise deceived . |
| 8 | Bones grow by accumulating crystals of minerals . |
| 9 | Students therefore learn by accumulating a bank of correct patterns of language and gain confidence to use their knowledge in a range of situations . |
| 10 | If a search for money and/or an avoidance of stress are two indicators of strong arousals from this goal category , then it is clear that some people can be motivated for long periods of time either by stress avoidance or by accumulating more and more money . |
| 11 | The need for reappraisal in the 1950s was underlined by accumulating evidence that rising standards of material prosperity , education and social welfare had not been matched by any corresponding decline in offending . |
| 12 | By accumulating the expected numbers of cases of leukaemia and non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma below age 15 we then created three categories with ( as far as possible ) similar expected numbers . |
| 13 | In these and other models , households save for future consumption ( by accumulating money balances ) and in some cases firms can accumulate inventories for future sales . |
| 14 | For elderly people , there must also be concern that emphasis on reducing waiting times by contracting for services non-locally will impose serious hardship on those unable or unwilling to travel . |
| 15 | This forces them to expand beyond their resting length , both braking the fall and supplying energy , which the muscles can retrieve by contracting just after footfall . |
| 16 | It is well known that each vessel contributes to movement of the lymph by contracting once every 6–10 seconds in response to being gorged with fluid from the vessel upstream . |
| 17 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 18 | He called Isherwood Parsnip in that novel because of his face , presumably , and Auden was Pimpernel because he had saved Thomas Mann 's daughter from the Gestapo by contracting a Platonic marriage . |
| 19 | Under that system an entrepreneur would pay the state to utilize the labour of the prisoners , normally by contracting them out to local farms . |
| 20 | Eventually when one has had enough , he signals submission by contracting the pigment in one set of cells and expanding that in another so that his flank patterns change and he hoists the flag of surrender . |
| 21 | Studies of the production efficiency of bureaus suggested to Niskanen that , for a given output , costs can be reduced by contracting with private firms , reducing the size of bureaus and increasing the competition among bureaus ( Niskanen 1975 ) . |
| 22 | " Flexibility " is also enhanced by contracting out peripheral or noncore functions . |
| 23 | Both parties enjoyed freedom to contract or not to contract and both parties exercised that freedom by contracting on the terms set forth in the written agreement and on no other terms . |
| 24 | All this is set to change if the Government agrees to plans by Oftel , the telecommunications industry regulator , to centralise the 999 emergency service by contracting it out to a private Call Handling Agency . |
| 25 | The established papers could no more stay afloat by relying on their ‘ natural ’ constituencies than Callaghan and Foot could sweep to power by depending , as they did in 1979 and 1983 , on an imaginary clothcapped army of Labour voter-vassals . |
| 26 | It should be stressed that all the 12 Steps were established and practised long before the first residential treatment centre came into being and that many people today get better without the help of treatment centres or professional counsellors but simply by depending upon the Anonymous Fellowships . |
| 27 | He did it in the classic manner , by pitching the ball well up and bowling very , very quickly , and the fact that he needed help from his colleagues for only two of those wickets shows just how accurate he was . |
| 28 | Timber-frame construction is , however , naturally energy-saving , and the Thamesmead houses have been designed to maximise the heat available by pitching as many roofs as possible to the south , and placing rooflights strategically to let in the heat of the sun , according to Geoffrey Wigfall of Wigfall Group Practice . |
| 29 | By pitching the ball up and bowling in the channel he makes his opponent hit back along the line of the approaching delivery and play the ball into the ‘ V ’ — the arc of the field which lies between extra cover on the off side and a straightish mid-wicket on the leg side . |
| 30 | By crystallising cheap carbon , fortunes would be made . |