Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose 'e got in by usin' the latchcord , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've tackled it head on by letting the main character know that he is being written about . |
| 3 | When on a close reach , hook in by pulling the rig sharply towards you and letting the line swing up to meet your hook . |
| 4 | A large number of the buyers ' pigs died from an infection , E. Coli , triggered off by eating the mouldy pig nuts . |
| 5 | Well that this starts off by keeping the outsiders out . |
| 6 | Very chronic problems can be speeded up by applying the same solution as that taken by mouth , externally to the back , thighs and lower legs . |
| 7 | The program has also been speeded up by increasing the re-draw performance by around 25% . |
| 8 | Veins can be identified by their faintly blue colour and they may be made to stand out by restricting the flow of blood back to the heart . |
| 9 | In sum , the small firms are squeezed out by losing the advantages of labour intensive production as output becomes concentrated in larger companies . |
| 10 | 4 ) The last of the whey is squeezed out by pressing the curd against one end of the vat ( left ) . |
| 11 | Try and understand what the interviewer will be hoping to find out by asking the questions , so that your replies can be relevant and informative . |
| 12 | Quite simply , the peaks and troughs can be evened out by forecasting the number that can be permitted to be away in each grade at any given week which is a simple mathematical exercise . |
| 13 | We found out by following the progress of one of this year 's semi-finalists at the annual Smirnoff Fashion Awards — a competition which celebrates student design … |
| 14 | She helped out by taking the copy phoned in by our correspondents around the region . |
| 15 | So the Government helped out by pulling the rug from under savers . |
| 16 | It has now emerged that the fraud was carried out by using the credit to pay back money to International Signal and Control as if it was the customer making stage payments on the contract . |
| 17 | Tests of significance for intervention effects were then carried out by taking the ratio ( χ 2 /df for the intervention effect ) / ( χ 2 /df for the interaction between school and interventions ) to yield an approximate F statistic . |
| 18 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 19 | Cold setting was carried out by selecting the characters one at a time and placing them in a compositor 's stick . |
| 20 | The above tests are carried out by estimating the system as a whole and not , as in Barro ( 1977a ) , by estimating separately the money growth equation and the unemployment ( or output ) equation . |
| 21 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 22 | Testing is carried out by presenting the student with a new example of the concept and asking her to identify it . |
| 23 | A graded step approach to teaching the child to eat everything on the plate is carried out by presenting the child with very small helpings initially . |
| 24 | Etching is simply carried out by placing the slice or thin section face up in the chosen etching solution . |
| 25 | The CLO test ( Delta-West Ltd , Bentley , Western Australia ) was carried out by placing the antral biopsy specimen into the gel pellet , and reviewing the slide for the positive red colour at 3 and 24 hours . |
| 26 | Most of human progress seems to have come about by making the contrary assumption that nature can be improved upon by artifice of one kind or another . |
| 27 | We might suppose that we could pin down which slit the electron goes through by mounting the slits independently so that the one that deflects the electron onto the screen will signal this by recoiling . |
| 28 | The political embarrassment that such admissions created for the Bolsheviks were smoothed over by presenting the necessity for NEP in terms of an analogy with the Brest Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in 1918 , that is , as being a breathing space . |
| 29 | An image , an acoustic picture is built up by scanning the focal dot over the specimen 's surface . |
| 30 | The Queen of the Night has knowledge of her domain , but her knowledge has been built up by allowing the quality of the dark to touch her , and the nature of its creatures to awaken a response in her own being . |