Example sentences of "by [v-ing] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 2 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 3 | This legislation is designed not only to counteract the violence by harsh , emergency measures , but also to undermine the political nature of the violence by characterising it as mere criminality ; the hope being that it will diminish the level of public support for those involved . |
| 4 | Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject . |
| 5 | Ideally , you 'll try to absorb all the information here by applying it to all keys . |
| 6 | One relatively straightforward approach to this task consists in trying to refine the theory through use — to discover , by applying it to specific problems , whether it can be consistently employed and what explanations it can yield . |
| 7 | How many have taken the edge off the phrase at the grass roots by applying it to inappropriate circumstances ? |
| 8 | Weller is trying to make political idealism glamorous by linking it with being a stylist , and validate being a stylist by aligning it with political ideals . |
| 9 | At first it might appear simple to unravel a particular doubt by relating it to one of the seven broad categories , but first appearances are deceptive . |
| 10 | Such passages did little damage , however , compared with those in which again and again he would use these occasions to exalt the status of the King by equating it with that of the kings of Israel . |
| 11 | Despite his desire to secure the dominance of holism by equating it with social scientific explanation , Miller 's argument only sustains a weaker claim ; for his distinction between holism and individualism suggests that there is a place for both types of explanation . |
| 12 | Some of those subsidies went into persuading Daimler-Benz to take over most of Germany 's aerospace industry ( see page 87 ) , by guaranteeing it against some future losses risked in making Airbuses . |
| 13 | A model of the language is created by training it on some text that is already available . |
| 14 | Another approach , which we are testing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine , is to eliminate the wild , dangerous population of anophelines by replacing it with another more tractable variety . |
| 15 | a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization … |
| 16 | It is easy to ridicule such an argument by pushing it to absurd limits . |
| 17 | Using a skewer , make two holes in the carrot by pushing it in one side and out through the other . |
| 18 | Only by defining it in some such manner as suggested will you be able to recognise that it is , or is not , correct . |
| 19 | Here , in the 103/4 , a much more extended frequency range is reproduced by supplementing it with one of KEF 's other major innovations , the coupled-cavity woofer system . |
| 20 | An animal acquires the behaviour pattern by imitating it from another . |
| 21 | Iran has , after all , infringed British sovereignty by forcing it into massive protection for one of its own citizens . |
| 22 | But this , he says , would be fatal to the attempt to know ‘ I ’ by description : ‘ It would obviously be a vicious circle if I described ‘ I ’ as being that bundle of states of which my use of the word is a member , and then distinguished that bundle from other groups by describing it as that group of mental states which are states of ‘ I ’ . ’ |
| 23 | Yeltsin could help by ridding it of bureaucratic incubuses . |
| 24 | Despite signs of renewed interest from both Ford and Volkswagen ( keen to re-establish itself as the largest car manufacturer in Europe ) , the British government announced in March 1988 that it intended to pursue a wholly British solution for the remaining parts of Rover by selling it to British Aerospace ( BAe ) . |
| 25 | In an attempt to rid the game of endless scrums , pushover tries etc. , the NZRFU has proposed to do away with the five-metre scrum by moving it to 10 metres from the goal line . |
| 26 | You can make oval quenelle shapes with the mixture by moulding it between two teaspoons . |
| 27 | Unfortunately for Cubitt he had to have a gallery but he made it far more acceptable by supporting it with pointed arches . |
| 28 | Not only had they sent a tactless cable but , seeing it was 2 am in England , decided to save money by sending it at reduced rates to be delivered when the MCC office opened at 9 am . |
| 29 | ( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him . |
| 30 | ( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him . |