Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 2 | Now use the four-arrow icon by holding down the left mouse button on the left pointing arrow , so as to make sure that you are as far to the left as possible . |
| 3 | Using your rough pencil copy as a guide , commence the preparation of the artwork by placing down the mounting pads of the components , using either crepe tape circles or rub-down dry transfers of appropriate diameter . |
| 4 | Before this the tree roots held the soil in place by soaking up the heavy rain and letting it go slowly . |
| 5 | The identification of the farm worker with his fellow villagers was reinforced by this , and even local farmers , who also had an interest in securing skilled labour and ensuring that the farm ran as smoothly as possible , contributed to the process by seeking out the best workers according to their reputation in the locality . |
| 6 | De Niro , in his funniest performance since Rupert King Of Comedy Pupkin plays a small-time New York lawyer keen to be someone , to make his mark by taking on the local crime boss/boxing promoter as well as tangling with the local barman 's wife played by Cape Fear co star Jessica Lange . |
| 7 | Howells made the opening by surging down the left and squaring the ball across the penalty area for Lineker who , right leg outstretched , steered the ball into the bottom corner of the net . |
| 8 | MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park . |
| 9 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 10 | But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term . |
| 11 | There is no doubt that the candidate who assists the examiner by carrying out the administrative instructions given to him creates a good impression . |
| 12 | Get a new constitution by tearing up the old one unlawfully ? |
| 13 | You can ‘ fool ’ the drive by covering up the second capacity signalling hole . |
| 14 | You have been doing the right thing by cutting out the dead wood you found in spring , but these plants do get very straggly , and to get the best out of it you will need to be a bit more ruthless . |
| 15 | This is not a path because node 9 is repeated but it can be shortened to the path by leaving out the redundant section 9 to 1 to 9 . |
| 16 | God would reward good ; his judgements in battle would be just ; he would favour the humble who honoured him and recognised his strength by bringing down the proud . |
| 17 | Normally geometric data is entered directly into the system by calling up the appropriate entry command and responding with the necessary parameters and syntax . |
| 18 | We had already disconnected the water supply , so the first thing was to empty the cistern by flushing , and then remove the flush pipe from the flush pipe horn by folding back the rubber gasket and unscrewing the joint at the cistern . |
| 19 | THE GOSPEL according to Bobby Gillespie has always been more fun to read than to listen to but the media-friendly Scotsman has finally justified his own hype by drawing up the definitive blueprint for ‘ 90 's Rave culture . |
| 20 | We managed to decrease the noise by backing off the low-mid rumble point and the 11kHz hiss by about 13dB , but to attenuate the DI output down to a reasonable level we 'd have had to use a separate DI box , and that means making up a special XLR-to-jack lead . |
| 21 | Silk Slippers enabled Sangster — slowly-sinking in the super league of owners — to regain a foothold by wearing down the red-hot favourite , Moon Cactus , owned ironically by Sheikh Mohammed , in the dying strides of an event that has become a fertile proving ground for Classic fillies . |
| 22 | For Hopkins , as for Blackwell , women 's moral power lay in their capacity to harness and control male sexual energy by drawing out the spiritual impulses of human nature . |
| 23 | He sacrificed precious time by taking on the onerous administrative post of tutor , which he held from 1929 to 1942 , and also the pious labour of bringing out volume two of the posthumously published Early Age of Greece ( 1931 ) of Sir William Ridgeway [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | The Kiev Rada , panic-stricken at what they saw as a Russian invasion , summoned the German army to defend their power by taking over the western Ukraine and its grain resources . |
| 25 | It is generally supposed that while Paisley , Beattie , Foster , and such people wish to maintain the evangelical ethos , the younger generation of Peter Robinson , Jim Wells , Jim Allister , and others recruited through the Queen 's University branch of the DUP want to create a mass popular party by playing down the evangelical elements in the party platform and by pursuing more respectable methods of political action . |
| 26 | Though Coleridge continued at the King 's School for several months , delighting his mother by pointing out the new master 's faulty knowledge of grammar , in April 1782 Francis Buller , a family friend and later an eminent judge , obtained for him a presentation to Christ 's Hospital in London ( the Blue Coat School ) , ‘ there to be educated , and brought up among other poor children ’ . |