Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So one of the purposes of research is to find things out by seeing if the world can be investigated using a particular set of assumptions , a particular perspective or a particular approach , trying to see if they yield promising and interesting findings , answer problems that preoccupy researchers , and so on . |
| 2 | This should really be conducted in a negative sense by establishing whether the approach contains any constraint boundaries which will ensure that a successful design can never be achieved . |
| 3 | The belief here is that anyone making a trade based on superior information is in effect ‘ stealing ’ from other market participants by acting before the information is made available to all traders . |
| 4 | Fortunately , these transient flora are more effectively removed by handwashing than the resident flora . |
| 5 | The person using the system to work out the cost of a building brings a substantial degree of skill by deciding whether the standard prices are applicable , and if not , by building up new prices and entering them into the database . |
| 6 | This is a very popular instruction , since it allows counting without disturbing an accumulator ; it is commonly made more useful by testing whether the count has reached zero after incrementing , and this is discussed again in the next section . |
| 7 | He had a way of beating the offside trap of defenders like Newcastle 's McCracken by waiting until the ball was in his own half of the field before attacking . |
| 8 | And by waiting till the baby is older you do n't have to think so much about lumps and what ‘ stage ’ dinners to use . |
| 9 | Their starting point was to set up a model in which there were no opportunities for arbitrage by specifying an equality between those investors taking their returns solely in terms of capital gains by selling before the share went ex-dividend , and those who sold after the share went ex-dividend and thus collected their return in capital gains and dividends : where . |
| 10 | First , by considering whether the facts the taxpayer relied on and the inspector knew about were inconsistent with the inspector 's having the requisite reasonable opinion , the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself in law . |
| 11 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 12 | The 1989 Children Act replaces previous grounds for intervention by asking whether the child is receiving that care which ‘ it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ’ ( S. 31(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 13 | Recourse to ‘ subjective meanings ’ threatens to make each action unique , to say nothing of the problems set by asking whether the actors need be conscious of them . |
| 14 | It is to say that whether it has done so can not be determined by asking whether the statute requires a certain state of facts to exist before a decision is reached : all statutes always do this . |
| 15 | The measure of co-operation was obtained by asking if the respondent would probably report to the police an offence he had witnessed . |
| 16 | If he does it without any help I shall be totally amazed and I think that it 's simply a facility to assume that there 're gon na be reductions in bureaucracy simply by centralising because the record from the past shows that the reverse is the case . |
| 17 | We shall lead up to it by starting where the modern world began , with the scientific revolution . |
| 18 | This could be followed up by subsequent research , possibly by comparing whether the migrants apply to more courses and institutions than non–enrollers . |
| 19 | His mission was going well , and he had even managed to save some precious time by arriving before the curfew was rung and the drawbridge raised for the night . |
| 20 | The proposed mechanism requires that crystals formed in the thermal boundary layer at the roof of the chamber can escape by settling before the boundary layer becomes unstable locally . |