Example sentences of "the [noun sg] by [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre-piece of his plan was the Banqueting House , which would be opened up to the park by demolishing the Horse Guards . |
| 2 | Resuspend the cells in the remainder by flicking the tube so that a thin film of suspension adheres to the wall of the tube . |
| 3 | Each escalation perpetuates the struggle by forcing the other side to match or overtake the enemy 's latest threat . |
| 4 | Great credit is due to all sections of the company which contribute to the retail operation and we will be striving very hard to retain the award by offering the retailer unbeatable service . |
| 5 | Once the rig is raised and your hands are on the mast you can turn the board by inclining the rig to either end of the board . |
| 6 | At first , place your foot in position with very little weight on it ; then , when your decide to begin the turn , swing your body weight across the board by bending the knees so that more and more weight is borne on the back foot . |
| 7 | Practice partner uses set sentence ( at normal speed of course ) : ‘ What do people mean when they say … ? ’ and finishes the sentence by including the key word . |
| 8 | Choose the tack which takes you most directly offshore and when you 're clear , and only then , it 's time to worry about the technique by getting the daggerboard the rest of the way down and sailing efficiently . |
| 9 | ‘ I developed the pin curl looks about two years ago and have since changed the technique by dressing the hair more with back-combing and pinning it up for a more avant-garde finish . |
| 10 | Advice on other matters may also be prudent in order to protect the drafter by discharging the duty of care he/she owes to the client . |
| 11 | The paper hears that $130m in loans has to be repaid by the former MAI Basic Four Inc by mid-month and that the company is trying to raise the money by selling the profitable German subsidiary MAI Deutschland GmbH in Frankfurt . |
| 12 | If you do not like the effect of undoing , you can even ‘ undo ’ the undoing by repeating the command . |
| 13 | What is proposed is to give effect to the privilege by removing the ground for apprehending danger . |
| 14 | His response to the captain 's surprised question , 'so you came to Czechoslovakia to go to the football match , Professor ? " ( p. 71 ) is , initially , to violate the maxim of quality ( " Certainly not " ) and then to imply that this is not entirely the case by violating the maxims of quantity and relevance when he provides three excuses for not attending all the sessions of the Colloquium instead of admitting the truth . |
| 15 | The point of law was never decided , since leading counsel for Mrs Whitehouse withdrew the prosecution and the Attorney General then terminated the case by invoking the nolle prosequi procedure , leaving each side claiming victory . |
| 16 | Working with Dr Graham Lennox , Prof Mayer made his discovery through a test to highlight the damage by studying the action of a protein called ubiquitin , which is produced to label damaged cell components so they can be carted away for disposal . |
| 17 | Suggestions that he could avoid the damage by protecting the wheat fields with electric fencing do not impress Mr Berry . |
| 18 | If the text is shorter than the width of the block reduce the width to that of the text by dragging the handles in before you copy the text . |
| 19 | Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin stands at the edge of a relatively small , distinctive subset of irreverent fabliaux , fabliaux which powerfully exploit the inherent realism of the genre by reducing the characters and setting of the Christian heaven to a comically mundane and very human level : Heaven and Hell become just two alternatives amongst the familiar loci of the fabliaux . |
| 20 | A group income election is flexible in that it is possible for a dividend to be paid outside the election by informing the Collector of Taxes ( s 247(3) ) . |
| 21 | One party to the reference can not challenge the decision by revoking the authority of the expert without the consent of the other party : the purported revocation would be a repudiation of the agreement to refer . |
| 22 | It can be proved that he was the holder by examining the trade licence itself for the defendant 's name , by an admission from the defendant and by checking with the issuing authority . |
| 23 | This land did not belong to the Ikhwan , but perhaps the secretary thought to confer an aura of legitimacy on the grant by getting the consent of the erstwhile administrators of it . |
| 24 | The explanation has to be that the company shot itself in the foot by announcing the Sparcsystem 10 machines with such a long lead time , many would-be customers are holding back and waiting for them , and that things will not really start to pick up until those start shipping around September time — which suggests that dullness will continue for the current quarter . |
| 25 | We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over . |
| 26 | Clement circumvented the difficulty by interpreting the incarnation in one particular corner of the world as a specially significant moment in a universal care for all humanity at all times and in all places . |
| 27 | I decided to sit out the recession by selling the remaining 16 years on my lease and moving home to Crouch End in North London . |
| 28 | You 'll find your way along the route by following the orange waymarkers . |
| 29 | The main advantages are : the bridge is fixed with the arm in the ‘ down ’ position ( perfect for playing country bends in tune , or for keeping strings in tune should you break one ) ; it 's impossible to strip the thread by screwing the arm in too tightly ; you can choose to load your strings through the block or just through the bridge ; and it feels good , like a light Stratocaster trem , with none of the fudginess of more complex units . |
| 30 | It is easiest to measure the length of the strip by placing the tin on the paper and turning it over four times — mark each corner of the tin on the paper with a pencil , for folding . |