Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've tackled it head on by letting the main character know that he is being written about . |
| 2 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 3 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 4 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 5 | The CLO test ( Delta-West Ltd , Bentley , Western Australia ) was carried out by placing the antral biopsy specimen into the gel pellet , and reviewing the slide for the positive red colour at 3 and 24 hours . |
| 6 | Most of human progress seems to have come about by making the contrary assumption that nature can be improved upon by artifice of one kind or another . |
| 7 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 8 | The evolution of the biosphere — indeed the very existence of the biosphere — came about by taming the worst excesses of incoming solar radiation by screening out the more harmful rays . |
| 9 | The coloured transparent stones could all be shown off by using the old technique of rubbing and polishing . |
| 10 | When clear of the top of the T , finish off by passing the last but one wrap over your finger tip to form a loop , pass round again and slip the end through the loop and pull tight , and the elasticity will hold everything tight . |
| 11 | This wastage can be shown up by comparing the theoretical mass balance with the actual mass balance . |
| 12 | This kind of deradicalization usually ends up by disorganizing the working class , since pursuing broad coalitions tends to break up proletarian solidarity and fragment socialism into workers ' particular interests under redistributive capitalism . |
| 13 | But Sartre 's own text here develops a dialogism in the tension between these two possibilities which becomes an increasingly dominant characteristic of his regressive-progressive method and ends up by detotalizing the very totalization which he sought to prove . |
| 14 | The engineer gets in by unbolting the top plate . |
| 15 | So with me it started off by taking the top strings off and playing bass . |
| 16 | By concentrating upon information-processing , cognitivists end up by describing the unthinking individual , who thoughtlessly responds to the stimulus world . |
| 17 | They derive from molecular rotation of CH 3 X , and can be worked out by representing the local motion by arrows curved round the M-P bonds . |
| 18 | The volcano ended up by destroying the entire island . |