Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can compensate for using more time working a really special border and so on by speeding up on the main sections . |
| 2 | It is not satisfactory or acceptable , especially in a modern glider , to fly onto the ground by easing forwards on the stick . |
| 3 | Not only did he treat everyone in sight but also led nightly singsongs by thumping away on the pub piano . |
| 4 | Ballantine , of Birchburn , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road last 13 July and while over the limit . |
| 5 | Ballantine , of Mossat House , Aultbea , had admitted causing the death of Louis Innes-Loo by driving carelessly on the Poolewe to Aultbea road and while over the limit . |
| 6 | By knocking continually on the door of his cell , the Doctor had finally managed to attract the attention of the guard outside . |
| 7 | The stool was built into the set and was triggered by pressing down on the foot-rest . |
| 8 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 9 | Often in such circumstances , it may have been that the dog was teased in the past , by a stranger who encouraged it to bark by tapping repeatedly on the window , for example . |
| 10 | With the front foot on the pedal , the track is moved forwards by pushing downwards on the boom and backwards by pulling on the boom . |
| 11 | So , with this result , I decided to try the opposite by pushing down on the boom through the turn . |
| 12 | By pushing down on the boom I was keeping the rig more upright , hence providing more power whilst also keeping the board more level and stopping the back of the board digging in too much . |
| 13 | By forcing down on the upper , outside footrest the rider obtains exceptional feel for rear tyre grip . |
| 14 | You can feel the grip more and you can control the bike a lot better by forcing down on the peg when the rear steps out . ’ |
| 15 | It does something even more wonderful , it accelerates critical illness diagnosis by paying out on the disabling condition like loss of limb , where it creates a situation where the permanent person get paid out even before he has a critical condition , because that condition threatens his chances of paying his daily needs due to financial independence . |
| 16 | In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn . |
| 17 | Experienced teams are constantly moving back and forth , speeding up by pulling hard on the lines or conversely running forward to slow the kites . |
| 18 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 19 | The withdrawal of privileges is a very popular response by parents to non-compliance — for example : ‘ You 've been cheeky so I wo n't let you go out ’ ; ‘ You disobeyed me by going out on the road so you ca n't have that ice-cream . ’ |
| 20 | A front kick can also be countered effectively by moving back on the diagonal . |
| 21 | As the speed bled off , he turned the aircraft on to the runway heading by kicking hard on the right rudder-pedal . |
| 22 | 1986 — DURING a skiing trip to Klosters , Fergie and Diana dare to defy royal protocol by fooling around on the slopes in front of the cameras , crashing into each other and giggling like schoolgirls . |
| 23 | Some teaching unions have expressed worries that governors may want to reduce staff costs by cutting down on the number of teachers or allowances , or delaying filling a vacancy , or employing less well qualified staff . |
| 24 | This has the effect of reducing the entropy of the definitions , by cutting down on the randomness with which their constituent words are chosen . |
| 25 | Confidence will not be instilled by harping solely on the negatives . |
| 26 | Subsequent empiricist versions avoid the Cartesian problem of the relation between mind and body by focusing instead on the epistemological processes of subjectivity , but in this way obscure even further the nature of the body attached to these processes . |
| 27 | Brooke-Rose reverses this familiar postmodernist trope by focusing instead on the relation between the characters and their readers . |
| 28 | Had the results of self-report/victimization surveys and the investigations of quasi-judicial agencies been publicized as much as ‘ official criminal statistics ’ , and had the radical jaundiced and cynical view of criminal definitions been widely publicized , then the mystification produced by focusing exclusively on the characteristics of the prison population would not be so easily achieved . |
| 29 | But this interplay between coercion and consent has been underemphasized in pluralist analysis by focusing only on the inadequacy of the coercive dimension . |
| 30 | We are interested not in what might be the case ( of course anything is possible ) but in what would be the case , and the theory captures that interest by focusing only on the nearest relevant worlds . |