Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 3 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 4 | It is a sign of Marx 's and Engels 's intellectual courage that they put these laws to the test by seeing whether they accorded with what was then known about early cultures . |
| 5 | One of the big problems the widower does have is that he does not feel so free to express his grief to others by weeping when he talks of his wife , their life together and the events that led up to her death . |
| 6 | You can often get them back on track by suggesting that they take turns at riding the tricycle or that they make the Lego building a joint effort . |
| 7 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 8 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 9 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 10 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 11 | And to that ultimate challenge of the book the herb can not reply , except by realising that he does not know the answer , and that he is glad he does not know . |
| 12 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
| 13 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 14 | LOOP have ended two years of speculation by announcing that they have definitely split up . |
| 15 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 16 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 17 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 18 | In November 1989 Secord had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of making a false statement to congressional investigators by denying that he knew that funds from the Iran-contra operation had been used to instal a security system at the house of Oliver North . |
| 19 | But Georgie then pulled a master-stroke by revealing that she had a talent for automatic writing . |
| 20 | ‘ And I do not intend to entertain you by dressing while you watch . ’ |
| 21 | He was so embarrassed , and she could n't make the sting of it even worse by refusing when he suggested dining at the resort restaurant instead . |
| 22 | If you do n't like it , the cost is too high for its usefulness or for any other reason whatsoever , you need only scrub the disk clean by reformatting and what have you lost ? |
| 23 | But if we lost in 1992 — as we certainly lost in 1987 — because prosperous voters feared that we would reduce their disposable income , we will not win back those middle income families by pretending that we have abandoned the very purpose of our creation and our existence . |
| 24 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 25 | These rules can also be deduced by imagining that we try to send extra goods ‘ round the cycle ’ by increasing the flow of goods in edges corresponding to forward variables and reducing it in edges corresponding to reverse variables . |
| 26 | She shrugged casually , hating to spoil the impression of intimacy between herself and Piers by confessing that he had told her nothing . |
| 27 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 28 | He puts himself in good light by adding that he gripped me tightly round the shoulders in reassurance , that he gave me brandy , that we talked long after the starlings had ceased their chatter , that we walked down into the street and discussed in jogging stride what guilt or shame or desire could do to the human soul . |
| 29 | By supposing that one has a typical member to investigate one can maximize one 's knowledge of the properties and structure common to each member of the class by examining that one member in great detail . |
| 30 | Still , the application of different principles of design at the two ends could be accounted for in one man 's work : either by supposing that he saw and was overwhelmed by the Theseion mural between designing the east and designing the west ; or , perhaps more convincingly , that he felt a traditional , sculptural style proper to the entrance-front while allowing himself at the back to experiment with a new pictorial interest . |