Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by [verb] down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | : , who on seeing Canova 's ‘ Paris ’ in Florence in 1813 , exaggerated the idea of the ‘ creative ’ and sexual role of the sculptor 's touch : ‘ The chisel is the last tool that comes to mind , for if statues could be made by caressing marble rather than by roughly cutting and chipping I would say that this one has been formed by wearing down the surrounding marble by dint of kisses and caresses ’ . |
| 2 | We saw that the combinatorial explosion of hypotheses produced by breadth-first search could be limited by cutting down the depth or the branching factor of the search space , and we described two general methods of doing this : — |
| 3 | Some wits even suggested that the answer to the labour shortage which the ‘ total war ’ measures were seeking to combat was to be found by closing down the Propaganda Ministry and combing out Party offices . |
| 4 | Thin sections of carbonate rocks in particular require a high contrast , and this may be obtained by stopping down the substage iris somewhat . |
| 5 | On the assumption of a two-firm market and that a rival would not enter the market if it faced zero NPV , NPVs were calculated for investment by the price-setting firm based on the limit prices needed to prevent the rival from entering the market and the cost levels that could be achieved by moving down the experience curve . |
| 6 | Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps . |
| 7 | So , for each basic x i j we have , and y i and can be determined by working down the tree as in TRP . |
| 8 | It is better to control them during this ‘ in-ground ’ period , the best control being achieved by watering down a solution of a chemical , one of a group with the long name ‘ chlorinated hydrocarbons ’ , and used primarily in this case on lawns as a wormkiller . |
| 9 | This mode is attained by shutting down the eyelids . |
| 10 | This is achieved by holding down the fire button until the meter below the energy bar reaches maximum , then releasing it at the right moment . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |