Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report urged industrialized countries to assist the developing world by speeding up the completion of the " Uruguay Round " of trade liberalization talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 38411 ] and by reducing the burden of commercial debt . |
| 2 | Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant . |
| 3 | Members are listed by area of operation and further information and brochures can be obtained by contacting directly the schools of your choice . |
| 4 | Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate . |
| 5 | However , independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ( The Structure of Alcoholic Taxes : A Hangover from the past , 1990 ) and by the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between Alcoholic Drinks : An Analysis , 1991 ) indicates that it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits , and levelling up the duty on wines and beers , so that all alcoholic drinks are taxed at the same rate of duty per degree of alcohol content . |
| 6 | The review team has concluded that the main objective must be to reduce the scope for dissatisfaction by stepping up the pressure on those solicitors who are not yet ‘ up-front ’ about charges . |
| 7 | We can measure the effects of some of the problems listed earlier , by using only the observations at the second time point . |
| 8 | Already looking at playing in the 1995 Rugby World Cup , Japan stole a march on emerging Asian rivals , Hong Kong , by bringing forward the dates of next year 's Asian Championship . |
| 9 | They agreed to tighten targets under the 1987 Montreal Protocol [ see p. 35678 ] by bringing forward the phasing-out of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by four years to 1996 . |
| 10 | ‘ I consider it my duty to strive to ward off the calamity by bringing about the union of Palestine and Transjordan ’ , he told the Palestinians . |
| 11 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 12 | Mrs Imelda Marcos , widow of the late President Ferdinand Marcos , hopes to resuscitate her ailing political campaign by bringing home the body of her late husband on April 12 . |
| 13 | Emphasising the need for European co-operation , Mr Stewart said : ‘ By bringing together the resources of various countries , we can take advantage of the complementary know-how and abilities available throughout Europe . |
| 14 | By bringing together the findings from local studies in France and Britain , BPPS and CERVL compare the experiences of similar types of communities in the two countries . |
| 15 | Russell Stannard , in a book on relativity written for children , explains how Einstein made his discoveries , not by finding new experimental results , but by drawing out the implications of what was already well-known . |
| 16 | The King of Prussia kept up a desperate defensive campaign against his other main enemies , Austria and Russia ; Britain contributed to this struggle not only by keeping up the army for the defence of Hanover and western Germany but also by supplying money , first as loans and then about £3m. in grants , to keep the Prussian army going . |
| 17 | By tearing down the barriers at Yorkshire , Tendulkar has left a legacy of hope . |
| 18 | The T&L empire grew out of the merger in the 1920s of East End sugar refineries owned by Henry Tate and Abram Lyle , and expanded by fattening up the nation with calories . |
| 19 | By singling out the Romans as the nation with which the Greeks had the greatest natural affinity , they pushed Celts and Carthaginians into a different category . |
| 20 | This Lecture may be seen as seeking to ‘ close ’ the system , by incorporating explicitly the behaviour of the state . |
| 21 | A local builder obliged by knocking down the remains in exchange for the materials he could salvage , and the place had been known as the Half House by local people ever since . |
| 22 | Her host , Laszlo , an ex-accountant , used to take action directe by tossing down the remains from his dinner plate of fish to the cats waiting beneath the balcony . |
| 23 | Traditional drainage has accelerated this problem in two ways : by promoting farming methods which require high levels of fertilizer , and by stripping out the buffer of vegetation between the riverside and the fields . |
| 24 | SUPERMAN artist Joe Shuster , who lost millions by signing away the rights to the comic book hero he helped create , has died in Los Angeles aged 78 . |
| 25 | Foods such as sugar , salt , spices , fat and alcohol can therefore aggravate a cellulite condition by cluttering up the system with additional waste matter that is poorly eliminated . |
| 26 | The question can not be answered , therefore , by totting up the number of a lawyer 's victories , for in most cases there are no clear winners and losers . |
| 27 | Certainly the education system encourages them to , by valuing only the Standard in most territories . |
| 28 | You 'll have to empty the toilet bowl first : you can do this by bailing out the water by hand , or tying up the ballcock and flushing the loo . |
| 29 | Continue to copy the artwork by filling in the routes of the copper conductors , using the same technique ( tape or special ink pen ) described last month . |
| 30 | For instance , you can knock out a Quick Report simply by filling in the blanks on what looks like the normal data entry form . |