Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
| 2 | At one extreme is the person who starts a diet every morning and has broken it by the evening . |
| 3 | Diana has weakened it by being popular . |
| 4 | If the indemnifier is a natural person , the death or personal injury in question could either be suffered by the indemnifier himself , or by a third party who has suffered it by reason of the indemnitee 's negligence and is claiming against the indemnitee in tort . |
| 5 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 6 | He uses his long bill to probe for worms , grubs and other insects , and as his nostrils are at the tip he has to clear it by forcing out air . ’ |
| 7 | Mr Rifkind believes it would be foolish to split BR by region when the present management has split it by business ; besides , the government would have to subsidise all the privatised regions , since none of them makes money . |
| 8 | Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions . |
| 9 | His hypothesis explains very nicely why we found the three groups , and he has confirmed it by showing that the preferred axes change with position in the visual field in the manner expected . |
| 10 | If the accused gets a video on credit intending to sell it , he has obtained it by deception and he has assumed one of the rights of the owner within the definition of appropriation . |
| 11 | His dance throughout has its base in the classical vocabulary but MacMillan has coloured it by gestures from cabaret and vaudeville dance traditions , which serve to reveal not only class differences in behaviour but also genuine feelings . |
| 12 | Mount Stewart has enjoyed such a bumper summer season that the National Trust has extended it by a month , every day except Tuesday . |
| 13 | Here , one starts with a connection in the world , and appears to describe it by way of our characterization of it , the character of our belief about it . |
| 14 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 15 | At a given signal the egg is passed by sleight-of-hand to one of the members of the triad , who endeavours to move it by bodily force across the white lines of winter … |
| 16 | Dedication and commitment are part of the Lawerence lifestyle , they always said he 's got a big heart , he hopes to prove it by winning his place back in the England side and then give the Australians a roasting when they tour here for the Ashes next summer . |
| 17 | Thus , if the body clock is delayed then one tries to advance it by giving bright light in the morning , and if it is advanced then the light is given in the evening to delay it . |
| 18 | So , some other understanding of alienation is required to validate it as the dynamic which establishes a proletariat and a property-owning bourgeoisie as Marx 's two antinomies predestined to engage in that life-and-death struggle ; and Marx seeks to provide it by postulating alienation as intrinsic . |
| 19 | ‘ But of course everyone 's forgotten it by now ? ’ |
| 20 | Derrida himself , therefore , does not in any sense abjure history ( or totality ) but rather attempts to reinscribe it by writing histories that set up supplementary figures whose logic simultaneously invokes and works against historical totalities . |
| 21 | a contracting business , and he 's done it by the skin of his teeth . |
| 22 | Now it seems to me that er Yeltsin 's that kind of Russian patriot and he 's shown it by concluding treaties as equal partners with Ukraine , with the Baltic Republics and so on er in which he said that er Russia is no longer going to interfere in their internal affairs , so they they are equal partners in these treaties . |
| 23 | Well , some someone 's got it by post . |
| 24 | But er , your worships to do it by your colleagues until today because er Mr indicate on the application form that er he will not be in fact , operating the bar himself but it would be somebody else . |
| 25 | But when he said , we thought it would be a good idea , we took a Ali erm , erm mum took Alex over to Craigmiller Park , and we thought it would be a good idea if she just stayed there overnight because if she wa if she 's escaped it by , you know , tomorrow then she should really you know , be safe and , and |