Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC usually attempt to hide the fact that what they 're about to show is a repeat by introducing it with the words : ‘ Another chance to see … |
| 2 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 3 | T HOSE with a vested interest in rubbishing the Prince of Wales 's new Institute of Architecture by tarring it with the brush of eccentricity will have a field-day when they learn that the founder of the international chain of Hard Rock Cafes , Isaac Tigrett , is to sponsor a Russian student to attend the Institute for five years beginning this autumn . |
| 4 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |
| 5 | They have no gills , but obtain their oxygen by absorbing it through the skin of their body and greatly enlarged tails . |
| 6 | In the course of the book Nash delineates popfiction by comparing it with the classics and tabloid journalism ( Chapter 1 ) , with naturally occurring conversation ( Chapters 2 and 3 ) , and finally with narrative techniques pertaining to film-making ( Chapter 5 ) . |
| 7 | The crime for which Jean Campbell was charged was one of wilful murder of her own three-year old child by throwing it over the Old Bridge in Glasgow into the River Clyde where it drowned . |
| 8 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | It is not an easy thing to get rid of a body by dumping it in the sea , except from a boat , Of course it is less of a problem if you have access to a pier or a jetty , but most such places are public and liable to be overlooked , even at night . |
| 11 | Tennyson emphasises the greatness of the day by comparing it to the birth of Jesus pin pointing : |
| 12 | Noise/horror undoes the self by confronting it with the other that dwells within it , the monstrous potential latent in us all , waiting to be catalysed by an extreme predicament ; what I 've called the new psychedelia undoes the self by letting it drift off and disappear into the otherwordly . |
| 13 | We camped upriver from the falls , stalling the leap into the chasm of some of the water by boiling it on the Trangia and making it into Earl Grey tea . |
| 14 | But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea . |
| 15 | He also hopes to exploit the Burke 's name by reproducing it on the labels of clarets , burgundies and champagnes . |
| 16 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 17 | BECAUSE the Labour Party does not know how to cope with popular demands in Scotland for devolution or independence , it wanted to dilute the trouble by spreading it over the whole United Kingdom , creating ‘ regional ’ authorities even in England , where there is no popular demand for them whatever . |
| 18 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |
| 19 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 20 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 21 | A brave staff member believed he was risking his life by throwing it into the street . |
| 22 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 23 | Whether their inclination was to enhance the symbiotic relationship of church and state or , for those of them tending towards support of Tractarianism , to reunify the church by distancing it from the state while reinforcing respect for its ordinance , hierarchy and ‘ Catholic ’ traditions , nonconformists were likely to perceive either process as antithetical to their status , rights and interests . |
| 24 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 25 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 26 | But , as to clinching things , Stavrogin is not Tikhon , which evokes another of my dicta : Dostoevsky could only satisfy his urge towards crisis and clarity by surrendering it to the enemy . |
| 27 | But indirectly the growing public awareness of science and its potential shaped the professionals ' world by exposing it to the rough and tumble of political life . |
| 28 | You may sometimes wish to shorten the end of the previous shot by over-recording it with the beginning of the next one . |
| 29 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 30 | Shortly after Haq 's resignation the government announced plans to curb public expenditure by holding it during the current financial year ( ending in June 1990 ) at the 1988-89 level . |