Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] [det] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By using up all the available mineral salts , they compete with the slimes , algae and other primitive forms of plant life , which turn the water thick and green . |
| 2 | Start off by cleaning down all the oily and greasy bits — the engine compartment , undercarriage and control surface hinges . |
| 3 | A market participant with no initial assets perceives the possibility of making large profits by buying up all the available supply of a given resource , and then establishing himself as the monopolist producer of a particular commodity . |
| 4 | When Smith was enticed away to Cassell 's Illustrated Family Paper in 1855 he ended his current story by blowing up all the main characters on a Mississippi steamboat . |
| 5 | The travellers were then carried in a northerly direction and with Spalding now on their right and Bourne to the left , the craft was stabilized by throwing out all the remaining ballast . |