Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will give your business quicker reflexes by speeding up the whole production process , from planning to delivery . |
| 2 | Noise near the origin may be reduced by filtering out the low-frequency components of equations ( 6 ) ( P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 3 | In the UK the only practical , and politically acceptable , way of creating such ‘ wilderness areas , , would be by freehold purchase ( e.g. by NCC or NT ) involving buying out any existing tenancies or rights and by fencing out the whole unit . |
| 4 | In the UK the only practical , and politically acceptable , way of creating such ‘ wilderness areas ’ would be by freehold purchase ( e.g. by NCC or NT ) involving buying out any existing tenancies or rights and by fencing out the whole unit . |
| 5 | Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events . |
| 6 | God would reward good ; his judgements in battle would be just ; he would favour the humble who honoured him and recognised his strength by bringing down the proud . |
| 7 | But you 're going to get a wider latitude and difference of i of of strength of economy by bringing in the eastern bloc in the short term . |
| 8 | THE GOSPEL according to Bobby Gillespie has always been more fun to read than to listen to but the media-friendly Scotsman has finally justified his own hype by drawing up the definitive blueprint for ‘ 90 's Rave culture . |
| 9 | For Hopkins , as for Blackwell , women 's moral power lay in their capacity to harness and control male sexual energy by drawing out the spiritual impulses of human nature . |
| 10 | Noting that the EC central bank proposed by Delors would not be accountable to elected governments , Major proposed instead to build on to Stage 1 further steps to promote convergence of economic performance , low inflation and stable exchange rates by building up the existing EC currency , the ECU . |
| 11 | I wish they would adopt the positive principle of looking at something and seeing the good in it — seeing how it can be improved by building up the positive aspects . |
| 12 | Panamanians on the Canal Zone border celebrate the coming into effect of the Canal Treaties in 1979 by tearing up the American flag |
| 13 | Get a new constitution by tearing up the old one unlawfully ? |
| 14 | This was largely done by driving down the case-fatality rate ( as was done also with diphtheria ) but by cutting the prevalence of diseases even greater successes were won . |
| 15 | Thereafter , re-modularisation can take place systematically , by booking out the necessary modules and reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 16 | Frequently we abstract from this covenant by singling out the Ten Commandments and ignoring much of the remainder of the Mosaic code . |
| 17 | ( Robyn goes into her long narrow living-room , formed by knocking down the dividing wall between the front and back parlours of the little house , which also serves as her study . |
| 18 | LUF breakthrough Mrs Doris Ledger , left , and Mrs Jenny Metcalfe , members of the fund raising committee , signal the start of building work by knocking out the first brick . |
| 19 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 20 | By trimming down the first act , they kept the pace going , and the second act benefited . |
| 21 | It 's simple to do this now by filling in the direct debit and covenant on the back of the donation form . |
| 22 | It would mean so much to us if you would give a regular amount under Covenant , by filling in the Direct Debit form and Deed of Covenant above . |
| 23 | It also makes clear that sentences in the abstract do not in general express definite propositions at all ; it is only utterances of them in specific contexts that express specific states of affairs , where the contexts achieve this by filling in the pragmatic parameters that indexicals are variables for . |
| 24 | You do n't get to the tax bracket Manny Jackson was in by shouting out the first thing that comes into your head . |
| 25 | Collect the words by writing down the misspelled form , not the correct form . |
| 26 | The identification of the farm worker with his fellow villagers was reinforced by this , and even local farmers , who also had an interest in securing skilled labour and ensuring that the farm ran as smoothly as possible , contributed to the process by seeking out the best workers according to their reputation in the locality . |
| 27 | MELROSE , this season 's Scottish champions , added the Border League trophy to their collection last night by picking up the two points they needed under the floodlights at Mansfield Park . |
| 28 | At the same time you bleep the missing swimming pool attendant who responds by picking up the nearest intercom substation handset allowing you to issue instructions directly , all within a matter of seconds rather than minutes . |
| 29 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 30 | It has to work through the agency of its possessors , and especially by picking out the weak points of their characters — possessiveness in Bilbo , fear in Frodo , patriotism in Boromir , pity in Gandalf . |