Example sentences of "by [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 2 | All this is set to change if the Government agrees to plans by Oftel , the telecommunications industry regulator , to centralise the 999 emergency service by contracting it out to a private Call Handling Agency . |
| 3 | He felt that he knew the English character and , although he would n't hurt Ludovico by articulating it , he was sure that the sort of English girl who would get off a train and move in with a stranger would very soon be travelling on . |
| 4 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 5 | Measure the space for the final length of cladding , then cut to fit by sawing it lengthwise |
| 6 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 7 | A bank dishonours a cheque by stamping it ‘ RD ’ which means ‘ refer to drawer ’ . |
| 8 | Silas gritted , leaping from the bed and straightening his shirt by tucking it into his trousers . |
| 9 | If you make a joke , pause before the punch line — and let the audience know that humour is about to enliven the proceedings by enjoying it yourself beforehand . |
| 10 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 11 | Geometrical demonstrations which prove something to be true of all triangles do not do so by proving it to be true of an abstract triangle to which all triangles correspond . |
| 12 | Somehow we had to convince politicians that they needed to do something , by proving it was in their interests to do so . |
| 13 | The information carried by an amplitude-modulated signal ( see section 5.9 ) is recovered by rectifying it and filtering out the carrier wave to leave the amplitude-modulating wave . |
| 14 | But , the real advantage of a boilie is that it is so tough ( the carp do not know it is soft on the inside ) that a carp takes the bait by sucking it straight back to its pharyngeal teeth in its throat . |
| 15 | The bolt-rig works like this : the carp picks up the bait by sucking it into its mouth , but on the outward journey , when it blows to eject it , the hook point ( which is bare in a hair-rig remember ) pricks the carp 's mouth . |
| 16 | Some types of air-breathing fish known as polypterids breathed air not by sucking it in through the mouth and forcing the lung-sac to expand , but by a reptilian-like muscular movement ( which is also how mammals breathe ) . |
| 17 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 18 | ‘ The man I went to cured my hip just by stroking it , ’ Sean said . |
| 19 | Gilligan repeats this problem when she parcels up the unconscious and sexuality in a bundle with carer-infant relations , and deals with it by labelling it ‘ Chodorow ’ . |
| 20 | Thereafter , the authorities had the evidence from the JCP 's own objectives to justify the suppression and extinction of opposition by labelling it Marxist . |
| 21 | The bucolic finale also goes rapidly , but I can not complain , since Mozart invites that by labelling it both Vivace and a minuet . |
| 22 | If Superstores own-brands the coffee it sells , it can avoid liability by labelling it with a statement such as ‘ Made for Superstores by Coffee Fellers Inc . ’ |
| 23 | Expressed in another way , in attributing existence to an entity one is not saying anything about that entity that has not already been said by naming it . |
| 24 | Some of our men call him ‘ cannibal ’ , seeking to undo the power of his monstrousness by naming it , like to conjuring . |
| 25 | Sounds joined in the foray by dubbing it : ‘ Nothing but a few scribbled lines and hastily arranged chords . ’ |
| 26 | In this instance there 's nothing er and er justice Bingham er did say specifically that he was n't pursuing er the matter of er audit , it was n't his responsibility er the government should certainly have repaired that omission by pursuing it themselves , by inquiring er into er what went wrong . |
| 27 | There is truth , it is possible at least to advance towards it , we must n't sit down in what Hume called ‘ a forlorn scepticism ’ , erm it will require great courage to pursue it , but only by pursuing it shall mankind prosper . |
| 28 | There is another way in which we can inspect the growth of population , and that is by seeing it at work in all the various classes of society . |
| 29 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 30 | By treating his subject as widely as possible , by seeing it in terms of the history of war , rather than as the more narrowly defined military history , the modern student will come to understand it in its many facets and complexities . |