Example sentences of "[v-ing] it by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 2 | Using enormous restraint , she stalked her prey [ or nearly half an hour , and only when she was certain did she leap from her crouching position and bring down her quarry , seizing it by the throat and suffocating it . |
| 3 | Notice that effectively the spectrum of the unit step function has been derived by multiplying it by a factor which makes the Fourier integral converge . |
| 4 | But he was apparently talked into selling it by a mystery man for just one pound . |
| 5 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |
| 6 | He had been ‘ much pleased ’ with the suggestion , ‘ but was deterr 'd from improving it by the greatness of the subject … |
| 7 | ‘ Have you ever tried a cold egg-and-breadcrumbed veal cutlet eaten in the fingers — holding it by the bone of course ? ’ |
| 8 | Michael ran up to the attic and took the helmet off the chest , holding it by the strap . |
| 9 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 10 | A person in possession of someone else 's cheque book and guarantee card forged the owner 's signature and gave the cheque to the plaintiffs , supporting it by the guarantee card . |
| 11 | In the words of one contemporary observer : ‘ these cheaters turned the cat in the pan , giving to diverse vile patching shift s an honest and godly title , calling it by the name of law … to the destruction of the good labouring people ’ ( Salgá0do , Cony-Catchers , 15 ) . |
| 12 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 13 | One of the aims of this appeal is more effectively to fund our secretariat , possibly strengthening it by the appointment of a short term full time development officer . |
| 14 | So she said well do n't do n't put them down again I 'm doing it by the computer . |
| 15 | Covering means ‘ doing it by the book ’ — erring on the side of caution and producing concrete evidence of activity when making discretionary decisions whose outcome will be known to the officer 's supervisor or any senior staff . |
| 16 | Yes , because of the change described ( above ) , from the norms of science ( free enquiry , publications , respect for truth , resistance to argument from authority ) to the norms of commerce ( cost consciousness , restriction to profitable study , limited publication and need to retain commercially valuable technology secret , respect for adequate solutions , acceptance of the authority of ‘ current good practice ’ and standards and specifications — ‘ doing it by the book ’ ) . |
| 17 | No it does all over the place , wherever put newspaper down , he does it on the carpet so kept doing it by the cooker so we put newspaper down there , and put the toys away , see they was in the way you see , put newspaper down there and then next would n't have that , . |
| 18 | The principal Opposition party is committed to cutting defence expenditure by a quarter , and the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) is committed to cutting it by a half . |
| 19 | Pennethorne incorporated this building , which had only been completed in 1832 , into his scheme by adding another storey and possibly linking it by an arch to the Foreign Office . |
| 20 | and it keeps on cutting out , that 's why I 'm stopping it by the way . |
| 21 | The government wanted to stop subsidising it by the end of 1991–92 , but has now given up that idea . |
| 22 | Unfortunately there is a confounding factor of experience in this : the earlier sign has been learned the more experience one is likely to have had in using it by the time the sign language testing occurs . |
| 23 | VAT staff playing it by the book were close to destroying the Enterprise Rehearsal scheme , run by Barfield Enterprise Training Ltd for Barnet Enterprise Trust and Enfield Enterprise Agency . |
| 24 | Spartak defender Victor Onopko smacked Rushie while in the penalty box , but instead of pointing it out to the referee and then playing it by the book , we had David Burrows tearing into an absolutely scandalous tackle and the tone was set . |
| 25 | He 'll introduce proposals for abolishing it by the end of the year . |
| 26 | She slipped a small bag off her shoulder and , leaving it by the wall , sat a little way off . |
| 27 | Debt service ratio : This ratio is calculated by combining debt principal repayments and interest payable in a single year and dividing it by the country 's exports for the equivalent period . |
| 28 | Teddy throws a cushion at one , missing it by a mile deliberately . |