Example sentences of "by [verb] its [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It starts by stamping its feet on the ground and arching its back . |
| 2 | The preferred approach of Soviet officials was to confirm Iran 's abandonment of a pro-Western political and military policy by encouraging its association in the Non-Aligned Movement . |
| 3 | You can also enter a new media item into one of the uninitialised items which has not been displayed ( because it occurs between two initialised items ) by typing its number in the Start identifier field . |
| 4 | Truly successful marketing invariably begins with comprehensive and accurate market research , and here the IDB can assist through its Marketing Intelligence Centre and by using its links with the British Overseas Trade Board . |
| 5 | The University of Nottingham is meeting these challenges by maintaining its commitment to the highest quality teaching and research . |
| 6 | Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole . |
| 7 | By delineating its links with the various economic and ideological structures of society on the one hand and with the class struggle on the other , he hopes to cast light on its constitution and character . |
| 8 | To count as a banker 's acceptance a bank must add its own credit to that of the drawer by adding its name to the bill or ‘ endorsing ’ it . |
| 9 | Pan American , which ordered several Airbus A320s a few years ago , made more than $100m by selling its place in the Airbus queue to another airline . |
| 10 | With this building and some rearrangement in existing rooms , the Science departments were allowed to expand , with Chemistry gaining half as much space again , and Physics three times the amount it had , by moving its laboratory into the old Art Room . |
| 11 | It was the so-called Gilchrist-Thomas process that enabled the local phosphoric ore to be used for steel-making by removing its impurities with the addition of lime . |
| 12 | A shareholder is no part of the causal chain leading to the accidents ; he added no capital to the corporation 's resources just by buying its stock on the exchange . |
| 13 | The station could make its statement by spreading , by achieving its grandeur through the vast length of Beaux-Arts façades , the enormous circulation areas within them , and the new approach to land use which the new stations offered . |
| 14 | You can select any uninitialised item from the list displayed by LIFESPAN and initialise it by entering its details in the columns of the table , as described below . |
| 15 | You can allocate a media item to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |
| 16 | You can allocate a media unit to each identifier by entering its details in the other columns of the table . |
| 17 | The worker then reduces it to its proper thinness by putting its head in the cells on either side of the wall and shaving off layers from the face of it . |
| 18 | The aim of LCA is to draw up an environmental balance sheet for a product or process by identifying its effects on the environment , from the winning of raw materials through to final disposal . |
| 19 | These schemes may be divided into two : those advocating that the service provided by the NHS may best be improved by increasing its efficiency through the introduction of more commercial criteria ; and those claiming that the greatest improvements would come from changing the funding arrangements by introducing some form of health insurance . |
| 20 | If all context-tables are combined into a single library then a change in the properties of a context can be effected just by changing its context-specification within the library . |
| 21 | The angle at which sound strikes the slits greatly affects the strength in which it reaches the drum , so the grasshopper , by waving its legs in the air , can discover the direction from which a call is coming . |
| 22 | The Working People 's Alliance had responded by resigning its seat in the National Assembly on Feb. 3 , and the conservative United Force and the main opposition People 's Progressive Party similarly declared on April 2 that their members would resign their seats . |
| 23 | It would take someone who was very much intent on a punishment of biography to think of pointing the way to Difficulties with girls by mentioning its proximity to The Waste Land . |
| 24 | An adult male dog brought into a new household can prove troublesome by cocking its leg around the furniture . |
| 25 | Too often , however , it did this by lecturing its listeners in the manner of a public school housemaster reproving the slackers who let the side down by their want of ‘ team spirit . ’ |
| 26 | Akzo , the Dutch multinational chemical company , was found to have abused its dominant position in a particular chemical market by reducing its prices with the objective of driving out of business a competitor in the market in which Akzo held a dominant position . |
| 27 | On that basis , Shell would have saved about £3 million by reducing its stake in the well . |
| 28 | Imperial would benefit by reducing its dependence on the declining tobacco market and UB would gain access to Imperial 's reserve of cash , necessary for further expansion . |