Example sentences of "by do [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently . |
| 2 | And then she quite confounded me by doing exactly what I advised , and I always thought she took me for a crank whose horse sense , if any , was a forced calm not to be heeded . |
| 3 | He felt considerably better the next morning and , upon reflection , decided to cope with Gesner by doing exactly nothing . |
| 4 | By doing up old cars and selling them . |
| 5 | Probably they got better rather than risk his wrath by doing otherwise . |
| 6 | To get the ideal session , that 's what we need , we need a we need an exercise , we need participation and Martin was saying that earlier , that essential anyway cos people learn best by doing well we need activity and we need to make it practical to satisfy the pragmatist to real-life issues , problems , things that on the job . |
| 7 | Let's hope she continues to stun us by doing just that . |
| 8 | ‘ There we hope to continue to push back the technological frontiers and reduce the 3D turnaround cycle even further by doing even more of the seismic processing on board the vessel , ’ he says . |
| 9 | ‘ I warm up for the down strokes by doing fast alternate picking … ’ |
| 10 | The chip could revolutionise the design of computers and other electronic devices by doing away with the bulky magnetic disc memories that are currently used to store data permanently . |
| 11 | As a coach to both a colts XV and a senior team I have seen the game my charges play become more free flowing by doing away with the juggernaut mentality . |
| 12 | The proposed arrangements are designed to produce a more competitive first day by doing away with the mis-matches . |
| 13 | The only way Glass could overcome this irreconcilable difference was by doing away with the bar lines completely . |
| 14 | You should read as much as you can of European and American drama , both historical and contemporary , for by doing so you will certainly set yourself up well for both drama school training and your subsequent acting career . |
| 15 | If the British system of policing is a social construction geared to the maintenance of élitist power and is primarily concerned to keep control over a materially disadvantaged underclass , then these same ‘ dangerous classes ’ seem to have willingly entered into this game of power-relations with their masters ; and by doing so they have deflected attention away from their own lack of privilege and power . |
| 16 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 17 | By doing so , reasoned the party 's elderly barons , the way would be clear for a baron to take over as prime minister come the party 's annual meeting in October ( four of the party 's five factional bosses were caught taking payoffs from Recruit ) . |
| 18 | In vetoing repeated efforts by the state legislature to adopt the death penalty ( it is still one vote short of a veto override ) , Mr Cuomo has taken the moral high ground — and does not seem to have lost votes by doing so . |
| 19 | No one is helped by doing so , or by reporting his discoveries in a tortured , tidied-up , formal account . |
| 20 | It is as if by doing so a woman offers herself , ritually cleansed , to be entirely controlled by her husband . |
| 21 | But they seem happy to attribute orderliness and completeness to others , and indeed seem to be made happy by doing so . |
| 22 | Whether that was true is hard to say ; but the principle must surely be right that when people could profit by doing so , they accepted the benefits of government . |
| 23 | Growers in the South and East are keen to recycle the surplus irrigation water that runs off fruit , vegetable and nursery plants in glasshouses , but by doing so they risk re-cycling expensive diseases which could wipe out their crops . |
| 24 | By doing so , we will , of course , make new enemies . |
| 25 | By doing so , I hope to show that the dialogue between believers and non-believers in God can proceed only on the basis of certain common assumptions . |
| 26 | [ To ] Mary Leapor , I award the palm … she writes here with rare skill , reason and imagination on woman in society , knocking askew any easy line-up of ‘ new ’ with ‘ realist ’ by doing so in the general manner of Pope , with whom she has no need to fear comparison . |
| 27 | The invitations to foreign races started coming in after he ran ‘ about 162 miles ’ in a 24-race in Chorley , and Zarei has made the most of them , often running ultra races consecutively and by doing so he has more than proved a point about his approach to running . |
| 28 | There were so many ways in which she could help , and by doing so she might mitigate the fears which crowded upon her when dusk fell . |
| 29 | By doing so , they obtained a shared strength with which to challenge the attitudes of others . |
| 30 | For by doing so we can change ourselves and thus change the world around us . |