Example sentences of "by [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , flows would be changed by downgrading the western section of the ring road , with through traffic passing through the area via the eastern leg only . |
| 2 | Some grasshoppers produce their whirring trills by sawing the notched edge of their hind legs against a prominent strengthened vein of the wing . |
| 3 | ENGLAND 'S players will be denied the chance of pumping themselves up by singing the national anthem on the pitch before Saturday 's Test against South Africa at Twickenham . |
| 4 | and party men saw it too ; hence the contentiousness of the various schemes to square the circle by fusing the two coalition partners into one organization . |
| 5 | Indeed , by channelling the perceptual cycle and , in so doing also slowing down the looking process , grid technique extends the period of appraisal in a way that counters those rapid and dismissive habits associated with functional looking . |
| 6 | Hence the government faced a dilemma , which it resolved by breaching the strict insurance principles and extending the scope of the unemployment benefit scheme . |
| 7 | It is wrong to deal with the needs of the poor by encouraging the general population to a wasteful use of energy supplied at a price too low in relation to its present environmental costs and the detriment of our descendants from the rapid exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves . |
| 8 | By encouraging the private builder to build houses at low cost to be let or sold , houses were provided at the least cost to the community . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend will know that the Government have proposed a major new initiative in rail freight by encouraging the private sector to run additional services on British Rail track . |
| 10 | The procedure is thus controlled by encouraging the rapid exchange of ideas and responses during the early part of the process . |
| 11 | Later in the report local authorities are enjoined to ‘ maximise choice and competition by encouraging the further development of private services ’ . |
| 12 | The BDDA played an important part in the fulfilment of the last objective by subsidising the Deaf Welfare Examination Board for many years . |
| 13 | There is a natural temptation to seek an answer from the horse 's mouth , so to speak , by submitting the controversial material to the Attorney for an indication of his attitude . |
| 14 | In direct supplies derived by rectifying the alternating mains , a low-pass C-R filter is often used to reduce the residual alternating component of the output to an acceptable low level . |
| 15 | The pronounced topside knuckle not only contains water ballast tanks , but also , by angling the top panel of the knuckle fairly sharply inboard , enables deck area and thus weight to be reduced . |
| 16 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 17 | The state is then a complex ‘ institutional ensemble which functions to organise the hegemony within the power bloc of the dominant class by mobilising the active consent of the dominated . |
| 18 | The remainder are calculated by calibrating the theoretical model such that the parameters are consistent with equilibrium in the market in a given period . |
| 19 | He also promotes his staff according to merit , rather than by pursuing the traditional path of steady , age-linked advancement . |
| 20 | Once when Hugh Dalton , the local MP and a Cabinet Minister , was about to open a factory by snipping the red tape with a pair of ornamental scissors , my father stepped out of the crowd , took the scissors and demanded a house as a disabled ex-serviceman . |
| 21 | Franca explained that Alison had been quite overcome by seeing the familiar school scene and the dancer , some of whom were professionals whom she knew . |
| 22 | Dad was thrilled rotten , not by seeing the Royal couple but by getting one up on his son-in-law . |
| 23 | Bill Clinton , during and after his campaign , promised to find budget savings by shortening the average maturity ( currently five years and ten months ) of the national debt by selling more short-term paper and less long-term . |
| 24 | Prosecutors held the jury 's attention by spicing the six-week trial with sex . |
| 25 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |
| 26 | In 1972 the Heath Government promoted a major Local Government Act designed to strengthen local councils , partly by weeding out the smaller and weaker local units and partly by helping the whole system to become more efficient . |
| 27 | This is where we at N C V O feel we can play a vital role by helping the voluntary sector to recognise this shared interest and above all to act cohesively . |
| 28 | Ability to prevent introduction of bacteria and resist bacterial multiplication by helping the natural defence agents abundant in the wound |
| 29 | It is suggested that the aim of constraining the managers of the large public company by organizing the internal division of power in the company appropriately can be achieved in a variety of ways . |
| 30 | Others , however — like me — cope with their disloyalty by accepting the odd fag . |