Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even this admiration can be a form of ageism if , by singling out the truly remarkable , we minimise the more mundane but no less significant achievements of so many very old people . |
| 2 | Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps . |
| 3 | The evolution of the biosphere — indeed the very existence of the biosphere — came about by taming the worst excesses of incoming solar radiation by screening out the more harmful rays . |
| 4 | To investigate this kind of holism , then , I shall begin by laying out the most relevant portions of Althusser 's theory . |
| 5 | Since the question turns on the meaning of the word ‘ appropriates ’ in section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , the problem is therefore one of statutory interpretation and it will be helpful to start by setting out the immediately relevant provisions of the Act : |