Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] by [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 2 | Mutation has to work by modifying the existing processes of embryonic development . |
| 3 | Whitlow coming in on that near post the goalkeeper was very decisive then and er has benefited by getting the free kick Tommy Wright . |
| 4 | A currency reform , reducing the units of the peso by 1,000 in order to create a new peso equivalent to 1,000 old pesos , was introduced by the Mexican authorities at midnight on Dec. 31 ; the measure , originally announced in June , was designed to help accounting by reducing the high figures used in daily financial transactions . |
| 5 | That is true , but in this picture the golfer has n't lifted his head and is going to top by letting the right side straighten on the downswing or by getting too far ahead of the shot at impact . |
| 6 | Abscesses can be hastened to burst by fermenting the swollen painful area with hot compresses . |
| 7 | These in turn have raised difficulties of evidence and proof in law which legislatures have attempted to circumvent by rejecting the traditional prerequisites of some degree of mental intent on the part of the deviant actor — the concept of mens rea — in favour of the ostensibly more easily managed notion of strict liability , permitting ( in theory ) legal enforceability of a prohibition without regard to the blameworthiness of the actor ( Harvard Law Review , 1979 ; Jacobs , 1971 ; Paulus , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | If you do work through a programme in sections , try to finish by playing the whole programme through without a pause , if it is not too long . |
| 9 | They aim to win by detaching the Labour Party as a whole . ’ |
| 10 | strengthen screening by restoring the free eye test ; |
| 11 | With adverts exclusively featuring models of European stock , Lauren continues to prosper by bucking the multicultural signs of the times . |
| 12 | PR seeks to persuade by securing the willing acceptance of attitudes and ideas . |
| 13 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 14 | were given representation in the Patriotic Front , the PLO refused to reciprocate by granting the Communist Party representation on the PLO executive . |