Example sentences of "[vb base] it by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Lewis and Ramprakash there , so the umpire 's view is somewhat impeded , Lawrence in from the pavilion end , bowls to , oh the full length , and he 's off the mark with four , steers that down to deep third man , there is no deep third man , and er he indulges in a little token trot to the other end , but no one was going to chase that or , or stop it by any stretch of imagination , four , the total a hundred and sixteen for three . |
| 2 | he laughed and let it by untouched . |
| 3 | They charge it by each phone or generally . |
| 4 | We have increased expenditure on crime prevention and the police much more than the previous Labour Government , who cut it by 3 per cent . |
| 5 | Now multiply it by nine . |
| 6 | I then multiply it by five and the larger number exceeds the smaller number by 8 . |
| 7 | Then you multiply it by six . |
| 8 | And there 's six swallows in every cage , so when you get that answer , you just multiply it by six . |
| 9 | So if you multiply it by six and it 's still raised to the power . |
| 10 | think of a number multiply it by two now divide it by two back to the number you though of . |
| 11 | Square it , multiply it by two , subtract , whatever it is , just do it . |
| 12 | Mm slightly more easier for you is just multiply it by one of those tens so you 've got sixty four by ten to the four . |
| 13 | We just multiply it by one twenty now . |
| 14 | Multiply it by one tenth or divide it by ten . |
| 15 | It 's just multiply it by that constant thing each time . |
| 16 | You multiply it by that . |
| 17 | Then move across to Column B , and multiply the remainder by that figure ( e.g. for a £40,000 loan , multiply it by 10 ) . |
| 18 | I simply put the fourteen down in my head and multiply it by nineteen , ’ Matilda said . |
| 19 | Er , she gets that for every ten pounds she 's got to spend , so you multiply it by three point eight , yes ? |
| 20 | " I am thinking of a number , I then multiply it by seven and add on five " . |
| 21 | okay multiply it by ten and now divide it by ten . |
| 22 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 23 | I find that these people who are so called on the cheap that the product is not very good , well if you say say you call it by one of them |
| 24 | If I call it by this name I will have the whole of a dental audience with me . |
| 25 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 26 | He says well I 'm not paying you for it , he says you put it on and it do n't work , he says well we want it back , he says well you take it back and put my parts on that you took off , he says we ca n't , he says well I 'm not paying you hundred and forty pound for a part that do n't work and he says , anyway he says er , are you sure it 's a hundred and forty pound he said , an oil filter cost ten pound at some places but they 're actually only two so if you di divide it by five that 's forty pounds , he says I 'll pay you forty pound , but I 'm not paying you no hundred and forty he said . |
| 27 | So you 're trying to find out one fifth well you just divide it by five it 's the easy way to do it . |
| 28 | If anybody wants to comment on it , or any I think perhaps just confirm the calculation about being roughly one a day , that erm if you take the number of decisions that we made in the last twelve months , twenty one point eight percent of which were , erm , decisions to be put out by twenty six five , if we divide that by four , divide it by fifty two , and divide it by five you end up with point eight six per day , er |
| 29 | three quarters of your gross less two nine one seven and that 's , and then divide it by fifty two to get your weekly benefit . |
| 30 | think of a number multiply it by two now divide it by two back to the number you though of . |