Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a pity the management allows bombers to ski out of control and spoil serious skiers ' pleasure by crashing into them ! |
| 2 | She had soiled herself to the point of revulsion by submitting to his pawing in the public street — as shameless as the casual coupling of two dogs . |
| 3 | At first , he suspected her of trying to curry favour by pandering to his lust , but later came to the conclusion that it was genuine parental pride . |
| 4 | When civic and other dignitaries assume their badges of office or members of orders of chivalry their decorations , they might well enhance their satisfaction by reflecting on their debt to the only seemingly remote hierarchs of Byzantium . |
| 5 | Nor do they need their daily practice to be exposed to the analytic eye of anthropological ‘ thick description ’ , for in their task-driven world there is little to be gained by reflecting on what they already live and understand . |
| 6 | Louis Montrose points out a fascinating consequence of this : ‘ If the world is a theatre and the theatre is an image of the world , then by reflecting upon its own artifice , the drama is holding the mirror up to nature ’ ( Montrose , ‘ Purpose of Playing ’ , 57 ) . |
| 7 | A ‘ radical change ’ within that total system and in the name of industrial democracy , to the advantage of the trade unions , could only be secured by attributing to them rights inhering in ownership . |
| 8 | The attraction of shells has often been enhanced by attributing to them symbolic meanings suggested by more or less fanciful resemblances . |
| 9 | Even the attempted revisions of the discipline associated with the Scrutiny programme have failed due to its lack of positive practical goals : " False ideals are not destroyed merely by seeing through their linguistic dress , but by opposing them with stronger and better ones . " |
| 10 | It has been suggested , for example , that mammals ‘ took over ’ from the dinosaurs about 65 million years ago , just by competing with them . |
| 11 | THE Princess of Wales has once more caused disquiet among fashion commentators by sticking to her own rules . |
| 12 | Britain says the EC could comfortably levy enough for a reasonable increase in EC spending by sticking to its present formula of 1.2 per cent of European Gross Domestic Product . |
| 13 | By sticking to his own basic beliefs about attitude and playing style . |
| 14 | The whiteflies then damage cotton ; they downgrade the cotton lint by sticking to it . |
| 15 | When Parliament was in recess , the Whig leaders continued to keep in close touch , usually by gathering at their country houses , though occasionally holding more formal councils at Newmarket . |
| 16 | I 'm not going to dignify his abuse by reacting to it seriously . |
| 17 | Thirdly , by experimenting on its own with different materials and different actions , each bird could assemble the appropriate repertoire for building nests . |
| 18 | For example , if teachers notice that a child or group of children are tending to look for information in books simply by leafing through them , hoping to find the information by accident , they can , at this stage , point out the use of the contents and index pages , and run through some quick games using these . |
| 19 | Steps could also usefully be taken to strengthen other allied offences such as incest and obtaining sexual intercourse by threat by including within their scope acts apart from sexual intercourse whether performed against males or females . |
| 20 | Mrs Whitehouse was accused at many points of being motivated by ‘ hatred ’ of homosexuals and , whilst the extract suggests that her attitude was not one of ‘ hatred ’ — indeed far from it — by including in her attitude to homosexuality such words as : undesirable , repugnant , perverse , suffering and abnormal , it is also easy to see how the gay community might be less than happy with the description . |
| 21 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 22 | In discussing Brian Way , I have suggested that not only has the emphasis placed by him on the individuality of the individual been misleading , it has also put some teachers in a position of distorting the medium of drama itself ; and that Brian Way in practice overcame this problem by including in his seminal publication a system of training in life skills . |
| 23 | Durán , due to take office on Aug. 10 in succession to Rodrigo Borja Cevallo of the Izquierda Democratica ( ID — Democratic Left ) , completed the composition of his Cabinet on July 20 , and underlined his commitment to free-market policies by including in it members of the business sector . |
| 24 | In practice this was done by a compromise , the thin skin being stiffened by attaching to it spars and stringers , with which it shared the load , the whole rather elaborate surface forming a shell stiff in bending and therefore unlikely to buckle . |
| 25 | Indemnity insurance At the same time as applying for replacement of his practising certificate a solicitor must satisfy the Law Society ( by attaching to his application a copy of the form of evidence issued and stamped by London Insurance Brokers Ltd ) that he has complied with the provisions of the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules 1991 or that he is exempt from so doing . |
| 26 | I found Trippy by stepping on him . |
| 27 | An NCO answered this plea by stepping on my foot . |
| 28 | By accepting the post Kanemaru had immediately bolstered Miyazawa 's position by bringing with him the support of the Takeshita faction , the largest of the LDP 's internal groupings . |
| 29 | The next visitor was made more alarming by bringing with her two daughters , perhaps a little younger than Alexandra , who both seemed to have no trouble at all in managing their skirts and hats and gloves . |
| 30 | Medics also responded to the feminist challenge by drawing on their new sexual ideology to label the ‘ shrieking sisterhood ’ as immoral and impure for daring to speak publicly about sexuality . |