Example sentences of "by [verb] it [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old , glazed porcelain sink can be transformed into a water garden by coating it with an artificial stone mixture . |
| 2 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 3 | Yes there are far too many overlapping institutions that self regulation has n't worked , it ha has no adequate on the annualt we welcomed 21 effective against fraud by replacing it by an independent statutory statutory based regulator which has the power to strike and strike hard rather than everything er by the the the plethora of regulations we now deal with in the financial er in the financial sector and in the respect of what 's proposed today , you ca n't rely er on auditors to be the effective police force that they 've been required to be by these er regulations . |
| 4 | a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization … |
| 5 | The sound from a TV receiver or a monitor can be improved by feeding it through an external speaker . |
| 6 | But in ‘ Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory ’ the Kantian insight is used to defend his theory against various criticisms by providing it with an epistemological foundation . |
| 7 | Eventually he opened one for us by hitting it with an old chisel . |