Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However , it is too simplistic a reaction to suggest that French poststructuralism can therefore be invalidated by judging it against the claims of a comparable endeavour in Germany , a procedure which can only operate by turning the former into a failed version of the latter , which obviously leaves open the possibility of exactly the reverse argument being made .
2 The gene was transferred by splicing it into the DNA of a bacterium which naturally infects plant cells .
3 At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund .
4 The rouble became progressively stronger and in 1897 foreign confidence was ensured by placing it on the gold standard .
5 Its efficacy could then be assessed by substituting it for the dictionary definitions in the overlap program .
6 The effect of a specific sequence on gene expression was therefore assessed by cloning it into the Bam HI site at -105 in this promoter .
7 If the growth of administrative adjudication could not be prohibited , it was argued that it must be regularized by integrating it into the ordinary law of the land , thereby ensuring that it develops in harmony with traditional common law principles .
8 For example , Gumperz identifies the following functions ( 1982 : 75 – 84 ) : quotations ( using a different code to mark a stretch of quoted speech ) , addressee specification ( choosing a code to pick out one 's intended addressee ) , interjections ( " sentence fillers " offset from the the main content of the sentence by a code switch ) , reiteration ( the message content is emphasised by repeating it in the other code ) , message qualification ( the main content of the message is " qualified " or adjusted by a clause in the other code ) , personalisation versus objectivisation .
9 This relationship is indicated by equating it with the first m of the oral plate is the second area .
10 While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen .
11 Union power had to be broken , and this was achieved by linking it with the breakdown in law and order .
12 The adequacy of the conjecture is to be tested by confronting it with the history of science , or , more precisely , given the historical work done by Lakatos and his followers , by confronting it with the history of physics .
13 They 've economised by reducing it for the handout .
14 In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground .
15 The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause .
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