Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under that system an entrepreneur would pay the state to utilize the labour of the prisoners , normally by contracting them out to local farms . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 4 | Perhaps the best way to familiarise yourself with the sound of specific intervals is by relating them back to the major scale based on the root of the given chord . |
| 5 | Her brother earned his living by hiring himself out to whoever needed his services on the island . |
| 6 | Madigan 's Millions was held back from release until American International Pictures decided to take advantage of the success of Midnight Cowboy by foisting it on to the public in 1969 in a double bill with Jon Voight 's early indiscretion , Fearless Frank , also made in 1967 . |
| 7 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 8 | The duty of care , provided under Section 34 of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , makes all businesses responsible for ensuring that their waste is disposed of properly , by passing it on to authorized waste collectors . |
| 9 | The moral panic crystallises widespread fears and anxieties , and often deals with them not by seeking the real causes of the problems and conditions which they demonstrate but by displacing them on to ‘ Folk Devils ’ in an identified social group ( often the ‘ immoral ’ or ‘ degenerate ’ ) . |
| 10 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 11 | Huxtable also carried out experiments to test the possibilities of disposing of urban sewage by pumping it on to farm land . |
| 12 | It is a common fallacy that the wind does all the work in a water start by pulling you on to the board . |
| 13 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 14 | Rita decided to quell her anxieties , after hearing about an amnesty program for illegal immigrants , by turning herself in to immigration authorities . |
| 15 | The inclusion of sculptural elements into a given context makes one more conscious of time , not by slowing it down to a state of meditation , but rather by particularising time through the experience of the work in context . |
| 16 | The repair and maintenance bit is actually dealt with by by sending it out to Absolute Sound and Video or whoever . |
| 17 | If , however , the procedure does comply with the procedure description derived earlier , then it will be necessary to subject each element or activity of the model to further scrutiny , for example by breaking them down to lower-order activities , or by auditing each element in the same manner as the parent procedure . |
| 18 | In years gone by , some say , the Bank 's governor ( Eddie George , from July ) would have stopped the rot by calling somebody in to his office for tea . |
| 19 | He believed that it would be possible to reconstruct an animal from a single bone — certainly , faced in the Paris basin with a valley of dry bones , he fired the imagination of contemporaries and of later generations by calling them back to life . |
| 20 | You collect points on the way by collecting books and letters and have to avoid the Gruzzles by pointing them out to Benny , who then slimes them . |
| 21 | Remove old , unproductive fruit trees by cutting them down to shoulder height before using the stump as a lever to help dig out all the roots . |
| 22 | Old bushes can be brought back to vigorous life by cutting them down to a foot from the ground at the end of winter . |
| 23 | If you say something to me I check that I have understood your message by saying it back to you in my own words , for if I repeat your own words exactly you will doubt whether I have really understood you . |
| 24 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 25 | By giving it over to Bull , IBM has effectively said goodbye to the French market for the RS/6000 . |
| 26 | She believed cheap clothes could be made elegant by paring them down to essentials . |
| 27 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 28 | Instead they fought the corner for multi-racial sport by taking themselves off to Zwide , a township near Port Elizabeth ( see pages 38 and 39 ) , where they held a coaching clinic for black and coloured youngsters . |
| 29 | ‘ Sweet darling , ’ he murmured , and kissed all hurt she had felt away before , shaking his head , he said self-mockingly , ‘ And I thought that by taking myself off to Prague I might get you out of my thoughts . ’ |
| 30 | Stanley 's family helped initially by taking him out to the pub , but he was worse on his return . |