Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My tiny kitchen has been given a rustic look by hanging up a hop bine from a farm , and a string of onions ( 99p ) adds the finishing touch . |
| 2 | Because of his superior position the capitalist can take advantage of the worker by speeding up the work process , extending the working day , or even displacing him with machinery . |
| 3 | By the late 1960s , members were putting down up to 300 questions a day and the Speaker attempted to reach more oral questions by speeding up the exchanges so as to cover forty to fifty questions in fifty or fifty-five minutes . |
| 4 | The report urged industrialized countries to assist the developing world by speeding up the completion of the " Uruguay Round " of trade liberalization talks under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 38411 ] and by reducing the burden of commercial debt . |
| 5 | Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant . |
| 6 | Some pessimists have calculated that enormous exercise workouts would be needed in order to achieve even modest weight loss , but it is now recognized that exercise does effectively help to burn up calories by speeding up the body 's metabolic rate for some time afterwards . |
| 7 | In 1969 it was back again on its wandering course , and was engineered cheaply back into line by dredging out the gravel shoals which were causing it to wander . |
| 8 | In engineering terms we want to recover the signal from a message by filtering out the noise . |
| 9 | The printed book is then inserted into the case by machinery and attached to the boards by gluing down the mull overlaps , after which the endpapers are pasted down to hide them . |
| 10 | So Today I brought and there 's an example here Today I brought joy where there was sadness by cheering up a friend who was fed up . |
| 11 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 12 | Robinson begin by rattling off a handful of saccharine songs that sound like little more than fast-paced lift music . |
| 13 | Independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies , ( The structure of alcohol taxes : a hangover from the past , 1990 ) and the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between alcoholic drinks : and analysis , 1991 ) has shown that , for instance , it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits and levelling up the duty on wine so that all alcohol is taxed at the same rate . |
| 14 | However , independent research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies ( The Structure of Alcoholic Taxes : A Hangover from the past , 1990 ) and by the Henley Centre for Forecasting ( Competition between Alcoholic Drinks : An Analysis , 1991 ) indicates that it would be perfectly possible to sustain tax revenue by levelling down the duty on spirits , and levelling up the duty on wines and beers , so that all alcoholic drinks are taxed at the same rate of duty per degree of alcohol content . |
| 15 | The most lethal of all electric fish has solved this problem by stepping up the voltage . |
| 16 | The review team has concluded that the main objective must be to reduce the scope for dissatisfaction by stepping up the pressure on those solicitors who are not yet ‘ up-front ’ about charges . |
| 17 | By bringing up a puppy in the context of a set routine , the anxiety factor present in dogs ( and humans alike ) will not be brought into play and so lead to an aggressive outburst . |
| 18 | The selection of what are known as quince rootstocks by fruit researchers earlier this century changed the situation by bringing about a degree of control of the vigour of the grafted trees . |
| 19 | ‘ I consider it my duty to strive to ward off the calamity by bringing about the union of Palestine and Transjordan ’ , he told the Palestinians . |
| 20 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 21 | Lotus is continuing with its plans for the networking market by bringing out a group calendaring and scheduling program based around the Filofax interface of its Organizer package . |
| 22 | And so I think you you may feel that there 's a bit of room for manoeuvre by bringing out the reference to re-use of existing buildings . |
| 23 | Some of the episodes and dialogue are intentionally comic — as when the son helps a friendly local chief to shake off some warriors from a neighbouring tribe by bringing down a swarm of bees on them . |
| 24 | The king could intrude on the local scene by bringing in an outsider ( perhaps with some local associations ) but he also had the option of picking a talented man from a local family to endow with countships or abbacies . |
| 25 | It proved its mettle in trials by shrugging off a 30mph crash into a 100-ton concrete block . |
| 26 | The stand should be planned as early as possible by drawing up a checklist of everything required , checking limitations on stand design , drawing up a checklist of stand services required and a progress chart for the preparation of all products and exhibits , including their manufacture , transportation to the exhibition , assembly and dismantling . |
| 27 | English Nature have responded by drawing up a lowland peatland policy , which includes commitments : , to oppose new planning applications for peat extraction on Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) ; , to seek protection for SSSI sites which already have planning permission — by purchasing or leasing the site , providing grant aid for conservation management , or liaising with extractors to minimize damage ; , to support the development of alternatives to peat . |
| 28 | She helped them to organise a process of gathering information by drawing up a list of possible sources , and setting them writing letters . |
| 29 | Chapter 11 works by allowing top management to get the firm out of trouble by drawing up a rescue plan that can involve restructuring the firm and writing down creditors ' claims on its assets . |
| 30 | Many accept that consumer confidence is good for business and have sought to give their members an advantage over competitors by drawing up a series of consumer protection measures , such as codes of practice , arbitration procedures and bonding schemes . |