Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [noun] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clark owned an estate in Tetbury which was eventually given the name Highgrove by his grandson John Paul Paul . |
| 2 | Sulphur dioxide emissions from vehicles and industry are apparently counteracting the greenhouse effect by blocking the sun 's rays , particularly in the northern hemisphere . |
| 3 | The Independent of Feb. 20 reported that the MPRP general secretary , Jambyn Batmönh , had effectively granted the MDP recognition by sending a message to its inaugural meeting . |
| 4 | Computers follow the same strategy that General Grant followed against the South : do nothing fancy , stay out of trouble , take no risks and just grind the opponent bit by bit , piece by piece and square by square , into the dust . |
| 5 | The notion that MCE somehow models the speech code by allowing the child to see English word order , which can then be internalised , is not theoretically viable . |
| 6 | Alongside the effervescent Denis Law and his unofficial minder , the ex-Celtic half-back Pat Crerand , Best enchanted the Stretford End by day and the dancefloors of Manchester 's discotheques by night . |
| 7 | It takes the shortfall for the year to date to £19.3billion and the annual total will easily top the £20billion forecast by the Chancellor , Mr John Major , in his autumn expenditure statement . |
| 8 | Howarth has already increased the work turnover by ten per cent . |
| 9 | She had just slammed the car door by hooking it with one foot , when Mrs Frizzell , with a similar brown-paper bag of groceries , came round the nearest corner on foot , having been to the local store . |
| 10 | At the crossroads turn right to cross the Halsetown-Vorvas road by a former chapel ( 508 387 ) . |
| 11 | Bear right to cross the drainage ditch by the stone bridge . |
| 12 | On that basis , we could still win the World Cup by giving 11 newcomers their first England caps . |
| 13 | The main strategy of the working class wife faced with the responsibility of managing the family economy and the problem of scarce resources was always to augment the family income by her own efforts , the most important of which was the sale of her own labour power . |
| 14 | It further relieves the learning process by using a highly visual interface which , once understood , can be replaced by a faster and more efficient coding system . |
| 15 | ‘ Breast milk still provides the gold standard by which infant feeds are measured , because human milk is uniquely formulated to provide the nutritional needs of the baby , ’ said Professor Dodge . |
| 16 | The way in which the child views himself can also affect the learning environment by establishing different sub-cultures or affecting self-image , self-confidence and self-esteem . |
| 17 | The bill also cut the SDI budget by almost $2,000 million , delayed or reduced the development of a whole range of advanced weapons systems — including the Advanced Tactical Fighter , the Seawolf attack submarine programme and the navy 's A-12 attack aircraft — and reduced active troop strength by 129,500 . |
| 18 | Just retrieve the file in the normal way and Quattro Pro will automatically identify the file type by its extension ( or the first record in the file ) and translate it . |
| 19 | If the most significant work influencing an author is not cited by him , because of his perception of the possible effect of the citation on the judgmental faculties of the paper 's readership , then this calls into question one of the most fundamental precepts of bibliometrics : that the existence of a citation is an acknowledgement of influence , and it also breaks the audit trail by which published knowledge can be referred back to its origination . |
| 20 | The study also examines the effects country by country . |
| 21 | As only intelligent and articulate people can , they are deftly defending the Disney premise by inventing a new genre : the Architecture of Entertainment . |
| 22 | Firstly , Proust often describes the material world by means of kinetic imagery in the novel . |
| 23 | He justifies the new taxes as the basis for roughly halving the budget deficit by 1997 and funding a $31 billion package to stimulate the economy and create several hundred thousand jobs . |
| 24 | By the time the Farce ( now called the Pathfinder Force by Harris himself ) was being manned . |
| 25 | Mr Breaux would find some spending cuts but partially replace the energy tax by increasing the tax on petrol . |
| 26 | He wears the obligatory half-a-ton of metal round his neck and backwards basebell cap , and the album sleeve even includes the credit Footwear by Adidas — which gives a good idea of the priorities involved here . |
| 27 | Prentice Hall 's Illustrated Dictionary of Computing ( Nader 1992 ) irreversibly severs the material link by noting that ‘ software is independent of the carrier used for transport ’ . |
| 28 | He also indirectly supported the Bridlington Agreement by stating that employers preferred single union deals . |
| 29 | All that is required is simply to retard the ignition timing by 3 degrees ( are you sure that your ignition timing is spot on , anyway — try unleaded and if the engine does n't ‘ pink ’ , you 're OK , but have the ignition properly set at the next service ) . |
| 30 | This would simply intensify the class cleavage by removing the middle tier which now spans the gulf between top and bottom . ’ |