Example sentences of "[adv] by [verb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Urry and I then broadened it and transformed it to make it the cornerstone of our chapter on postmodernism in The End of Organized Capitalism , especially by locating it within a framework of a book which is essentially a comparative political economy of advanced capitalist societies . |
| 2 | Occam gives extra scope for this because it is a parallel language : one can improve a program not only by reducing the overall amount of calculation , but also by configuring it for the ( possibly parallel ) machine on which it is to be run . |
| 3 | The microcomputer should have a form of security e.g. by bolting it to a desk if it is to remain in one place all the time , perhaps next to the library catalogue . |
| 4 | A turntable helps food to cook evenly by raising it off the oven floor so the microwaves can reach underneath , and by turning the food as it cooks . |
| 5 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 6 | Individuals from any one country were now able to obtain any other currency for trade purposes simply by purchasing it via the foreign exchange markets . |
| 7 | You could get quite a lot from this book , either by reading it as a whole book , or by dipping into it either as you need to know something , or simply keeping it handy and reading the occasional topic when you get bored . |
| 8 | Temporary mains-voltage lighting ( and the transformer for low-voltage lighting ) can be protected either by plugging it into an adaptor RCD , which goes into the socket outlet first , or by plugging it into an RCD socket , which can easily be fitted to replace a normal socket outlet . |
| 9 | The tune can , of course , always bear strengthening , and this can be done either by giving it to the two trumpets in unison , and the alto and tenor parts to the tenor trombones , or by giving the alto and tenor parts to the 2nd trumpet and 1st trombone respectively and doubling the tune in the lower octave on the 2nd trombone . |
| 10 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 11 | In Rask the Court was faced with a typical case of an employer which had decided that the management of a particular ancillary part of its activities , in this case the management of its staff canteens , could be achieved more effectively by entrusting it to a specialist operator , ISS ( the defendants in the national litigation ) rather than by continuing to provide it itself . |
| 12 | The immersion programme in Canada ( described in Stern 1978 , 1983 ; Swain 1978 , 1982 ; Swain and Lapkin 1981 ) involves the teaching of French contingently by using it as a medium of instruction for other subjects on the curriculum . |
| 13 | ‘ As well as a winter break , there 's another reason for my visit , Elinor , but I did n't want to alarm you unnecessarily by discussing it over the telephone . ‘ |