Example sentences of "by [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 How much does society lose by producing at the free market equilibrium point E rather than at the socially efficient point E ' ; ?
2 Alternatively , neuropeptide Y may have produced its choleretic effect by binding at a hypothelamic level , where neuropeptide Y receptors are also plentiful .
3 They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas .
4 For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse .
5 Warmer fluid escaped through the interfacial region above the sedimenting layer and enhanced the convection driven by cooling at the roof .
6 Suppose , for example , a group is given a task that is tightly defined and where the group has previous experience of similar talks , it is likely to succeed by operating at a formal stage level .
7 A record-player will translate information carried as undulations in a groove into sound , but not back again : you can not make a record by shouting at the loudspeaker of a record-player .
8 One basic decision you have to make is whether to index a card by writing at the top of the card a theme/keyword or a name of an author/title .
9 In truth , the camera is a ruthless editor of visual information ; this can be made plain by looking at a picture , say of the eighteenth century , and comparing it with a contemporary print , perhaps an aquatint , and a modern photograph .
10 The point is best made by looking at a simple inanimate , but man-made , system , which in this respect resembles a living and not a physical one .
11 The same can be done in miniature by looking at a sheltered housing group or an institutional home .
12 The CAB welfare worker can not predict exact dates but by looking at a client 's circumstances he or she can give some indication .
13 This section will look at how this teacher involvement can be achieved , both in general terms and by looking at a specific example in detail .
14 Let's begin by looking at a well-known poem — William Blake 's ‘ London ’ .
15 Users of injecting drugs can protect themselves by looking at a range of options for drug use other than injecting .
16 This can be seen quite clearly by looking at a passage in the autobiographical A Christmas Story , and comparing it with an unpublished hand-scrawled manuscript I found in his papers .
17 As the Director explains in the preface , the exhibition was selected by looking at a number of separate modes of work , subject areas and photographic media .
18 Both are bound up with the awareness and sensitivity aroused by looking at a flower or a tree ; an insect or a bird ; the environment in which they live .
19 For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot .
20 The following chapters will attempt to outline some of the main features of discourse organization by looking at a number of factors which constrain or aid the way we produce and understand text .
21 This is what happens with tax exempt sources and by looking at a TESSA and assuming you pay the maximum each year which are those figures and assuming that the interest rate stays at seven and a half percent , it wo n't but it 's seven and a half percent at the moment , then this is what happens , at the end of the first year you 've put in your three thousand your interest at seven and a half percent is two twenty five and you would otherwise pay tax at fifty six at twenty five percent or twenty or forty which would be those figures , but you do n't .
22 The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) .
23 The second thing I found quickly by looking at a newspaper in a coffee-shop : the day 's date .
24 However , frequently , the kind of questions we want to ask of the data are deeper than would be answered simply by looking at a cross-tabulation .
25 It addresses this issue by looking at a large body of empirical evidence , specifically at examples of the relations between adjectives and other words in their phrases or sentences ( these other words by no means always being nouns or noun phrases ) .
26 These types of questions can not be answered easily by looking at a conventional map .
27 We read the message of our watch by looking at a constantly changing display .
28 We will illustrate fourth normal form by looking at a relation which is in first normal form and which contains information about modules , lecturers and text books .
29 Now , so we can actually distinguish between the two policies , which are very similar in lots of ways , we 're going to start again by looking at a video .
30 The first of these properties is readily appreciated by looking at an atlas .
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