Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to work through the agency of its possessors , and especially by picking out the weak points of their characters — possessiveness in Bilbo , fear in Frodo , patriotism in Boromir , pity in Gandalf . |
| 2 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 3 | In 1972 the Heath Government promoted a major Local Government Act designed to strengthen local councils , partly by weeding out the smaller and weaker local units and partly by helping the whole system to become more efficient . |
| 4 | It 's simple to do this now by filling in the direct debit and covenant on the back of the donation form . |
| 5 | Sometimes this can be converted back to a single compartment when bulky items have to be carried , either by zipping out the dividing panel or by loosening a drawcord . |
| 6 | The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) . |
| 7 | In a story from Cynthia Ozick 's Levitation , the dialogue is made to move faster by leaving out the explanatory tail-pieces . |