Example sentences of "[adv] by [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( vi ) In the context of their own writing , pupils should learn to construct different types of paragraph , eg a general statement followed by examples , illustrations followed by a conclusion , cause followed by effect , etc. ( vii ) Pupils should learn , eg by presenting the same material for different purposes or audiences , or in different forms , how they can achieve different stylistic effects in their writing by a conscious control of grammatical structures and lexical choices . |
| 2 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 3 | Then you could blend all these different backings together by choosing the same frame for them all , but perhaps in different sizes or shapes . |
| 4 | Actually the scale distribution can be modified somewhat by shaping the pivoted element . |
| 5 | The process can be speeded up somewhat by changing the blotting paper several times while the flowers are being pressed , although you must be extremely careful as the plants will be exceptionally fragile at this point and it may do more harm than good to disturb them . |
| 6 | Hardy was a hot favourite before the fight and did not let a sell-out crowd down by producing the expected victory . |
| 7 | Notification of an address change can be down by returning the original Certificate of Registration with a note of any change to the Aircraft Registration Section — and there is no charge for an amended certificate . |
| 8 | Plucky ‘ Wendy 's a plucky kid , and we could n't let her down by giving the wrong vibes . |
| 9 | It is all too easy to start a sales presentation in the same rigid way , perhaps by highlighting the current bargain of the week , without first questioning the customer as to his needs . |
| 10 | This was to ensure that the sequences could not be rejected as sentences merely by reading the first words . |
| 11 | Unidroit gave an admirable lead in this respect many years ago in relation to the Leasing and Factoring Conventions , not merely by involving the requisite international leasing-and-factoring organizations in its deliberations from an early stage but also by exposing drafts of the proposed Conventions to critical examination at seminars for professionals in a number of different countries . |
| 12 | Once installed and running , Windows screenshots can be captured to user-defined files merely by pressing the PrintScreen key . |
| 13 | Schonberger ( 1986 ) argues that ‘ world-class manufacturing ’ status is not achieved merely by purchasing the latest equipment , and that the key roles of shop-floor operators in equipment set-up , maintenance and quality control need to be recombined . |
| 14 | Carew added that ‘ as by abandoning this trade they amend , so by reviving the same they decay again' . |
| 15 | As will be argued more fully below , for many television ‘ reality ’ is political reality and so by negating the former one is controlling the latter . |
| 16 | He did so by rubbishing the only viable goal of any Liberal Democrat election campaign — a hung parliament . |
| 17 | They did so by highlighting the unlovely features of a meritocracy , by celebrating the virtues of a robust working-class culture now being absorbed into an imitative and shallow middle-class orthodoxy , by demonstrating that the eleven-plus examination unintentionally favoured children from the better-off families , by proving that measures of intelligence were not independent of social class or cultural background , by eroding confidence in the scientific accuracy of what needed to be an objective and reliable measure . |
| 18 | It is sometimes said that if one wishes to reject such values one must do so by rejecting the very concepts incorporated in such words , and can not do this merely by applying their negation . |
| 19 | So by selecting the appropriate value for γ 2 the government can render the distinction between aggregate and relative demand shocks irrelevant and create for agents a situation similar to one of full current information . |
| 20 | In short , Lawrence finds ecstasy not in heterosexuality per se but its radical perversion , and he does so by reactivating the perverse dynamic at the heart of desire . |
| 21 | The engineer gets in by unbolting the top plate . |
| 22 | Unfortunately this has rebounded on local authorities since , operating under the principle of he who pays the piper calls the tune , Central Government has been able to impose severe restrictions on local authority spending , not only by curbing the total amount of the grant , but also by penalising local authorities who exceed targets imposed by the Central Government . |
| 23 | It had been an exercise without much in the way of results , but then many of my days were like that , and it was only by knowing the normal that the abnormal , when it happened , could be spotted . |
| 24 | Similarly in chronic chest disorders recoil is diminished , and only by using the accessory muscle of respiration is air expelled from the lungs . |
| 25 | Almost always , by helping them stay in their own homes — not only by providing the necessary cash , but also by helping them to obtain all the entitlements to which they are due . |
| 26 | The basis of his theory of democracy is a theory of capitalist enterprise , and Schumpeter emphasizes the connection not only by discussing the historical relation between capitalism and democracy , but by treating political parties as analogous to business concerns engaged in a competitive struggle ( for power in one case , profits in the other ) the aim of which for each party/enterprise is to increase its share of the market ( constituted by voters or consumers ) . |
| 27 | Only by ignoring the procedural context can the expositor present criminal law in a way that makes nonsense of the sophisticated doctrine of crimes of specific intent . |
| 28 | This indeed is the burden of Pound 's own poem , ‘ Near Perigord ’ , which argues that the puzzle of a particular poem by Bernard de Born — a historian 's puzzle about the reasons for certain historically recorded vents — is to be solved only by realizing the strategic implications of the location of Born 's own fortress of Hautefort . |
| 29 | It is a neat irony that only by studying the largest structures in the Universe can we get an insight into the smallest structure of matter . |
| 30 | For it was only by studying the precise rake of extra-long pans , the trajectory of tracking shots and the jejune emotional appeal of the jump-cut , that I could add to the repertoire of my own internal shoots . |