Example sentences of "[adj] by [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lymphocytes that enter the site could achieve this by competing with the invader , thereby lowering the level of nutrients and raising the level of the products of metabolism locally , for example making the environment more acid . |
| 2 | They do this by acting on the experience mode of establishing truth , and , given the uncertainty associated with any economic analysis relating to a company 's future , experience of a crisis is probably far better at getting us to reassess our schemas and scripts than is rational analysis in times of stability and success . |
| 3 | We can see this by looking at the hydrogenation of cyclohexene . |
| 4 | They do this by sucking on the hair and twisting it . |
| 5 | They do this by waiting for the mother to leave the nest . |
| 6 | Could you exploit this by starting with the soundtrack without the picture ? |
| 7 | ( Do this by pencilling over the side of the paper , turning it over on to the icing and then pressing gently over the lines again . ) |
| 8 | I countered this by intermixing with the transoxides . |
| 9 | Sociologists chopped off childhood and most of adulthood from their interviews , and oral historians neatly matched this by chopping off the whole later life . |
| 10 | They could do this by interfering with the transport of NGF along the fibre ; as in this experiment , the application of extra NGF directly on the cell body could help to stop the damage . |
| 11 | If the rocks in your tank suffer from all-smothering algae I have found they can be kept clear by scrubbing off the algae then putting them in the oven or under the grill until they are thoroughly dry . |
| 12 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 13 | Surely those politicians , members of royalty , athletes or anyone who wishes to make a clarifying statement should have sufficient intelligence to appreciate that the media-kings of speculation can not only guess what the content of the future announcement will be , but can make it so much more interesting by speculating on the response , plus the reaction to the response by the person who probably intended to say the opposite to what the ‘ experts ’ had been speculating would be said for the past 48 hours . |
| 14 | ‘ Excellent , ’ applauded Mrs Alderley , and amused Theda very much by tiptoeing across the hall to the front door , casting guilty glances over her shoulder as she went . |
| 15 | It is often possible to restrict these by cutting into the ground with a spade along the face of the hedge , doing one side at a time in alternate years . |
| 16 | SIMON PARKE , the 17-year-old Yorkshireman , made the selectors feel a little more comfortable by qualifying for the World Open here yesterday . |
| 17 | He also said there was as much chance of a player becoming injured by falling down the stairs as playing for Essex , but admitted there was a conflict of interest which he hoped to resolve in the very near future . |
| 18 | They told him they had heard that the doctor had managed to avoid them all by driving into the lamp post . |
| 19 | For a moment the noise was indescribable , much of it contributed by McAllister , who set up a keening cry , and , in endeavouring to make matters better by dabbing at the debris on Mrs Darrell 's lap with a damask napkin , made them worse . |
| 20 | There is no popular support for that and there is no evidence that policing is made more effective by tinkering with the membership of the police authority . |
| 21 | But the Left claims that the Chancellor is simply pandering to the far-Right by tampering with the asylum laws . |
| 22 | Making the complex variable purely imaginary by putting in the Laplace transform means that the signal is again being analysed into just sine and cosine waves . |
| 23 | You are relying upon experience to judge the roll , but use the information available by looking at the contours of the green . |
| 24 | Nomination forms are available by sending in the coupon on the left . |
| 25 | For up-to-date information about individual courses current post-graduate prospectuses are available by applying to the Registrar at the particular institution . |
| 26 | First by learning about the nature of addictive disease as a naturally relapsing condition and therefore being aware of the need for continual monitoring . |
| 27 | We could make it worse by insisting on the sort of minimum conditions put forward by the Labour party , conditions that would disadvantage the very people whom Labour says they are designed to protect . |
| 28 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 29 | Atari makes it more difficult by writing into the operating system ( the instructions that govern how the computer handles data ) an instruction that does not allow the computer to talk to disc drive and cartridge at the same time . |
| 30 | The parents of one boy , Moses Bentum of Bexley , south London were rejected because , according to the council , they had made themselves homeless by defaulting on the mortgage payments . |