Example sentences of "by [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 32 | By releasing it into the world , he relieved himself and taunted the fates to punish him . |
| 33 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 34 | On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England . |
| 35 | ‘ Property ’ is proved in most cases by describing it in the statement of the person to whom it belongs or in the police officer 's statement . |
| 36 | At this point , the trustees decided that the future of the church would be best secured by vesting it in the Redundant Churches Fund . |
| 37 | But , as in most places , shortages were eased by ingenious home-made car parts and machinery , by pooling transport where possible and , for instance , easing the salt shortage by extracting it from the sea . |
| 38 | In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground . |
| 39 | It was claimed earlier that black — in blackbird was not a semantic constituent ; we can now verify the claim by subjecting it to the recurrent contrast test : |
| 40 | Next Computer Inc is going try to stage a NeXTWorld Expo without leaning on Uniforum by holding it at the same time like it did last year . |
| 41 | Shortly after Haq 's resignation the government announced plans to curb public expenditure by holding it during the current financial year ( ending in June 1990 ) at the 1988-89 level . |
| 42 | If the patient can not lift the leg across , the therapist helps by supporting it under the foot and thigh , and taking it up gently . |
| 43 | BECAUSE the Labour Party does not know how to cope with popular demands in Scotland for devolution or independence , it wanted to dilute the trouble by spreading it over the whole United Kingdom , creating ‘ regional ’ authorities even in England , where there is no popular demand for them whatever . |
| 44 | There is no way the farmer can deal with the output of hundreds of animals simply by spreading it on the fields . |
| 45 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 46 | His style lends itself to much deadpan humour : when describing the old custom of cutting the cake by breaking it over the bride 's head , he does it without as much as a wink . |
| 47 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 48 | According to Schleiermacher , each positive religion contains something of the true nature of religion , and the ‘ primordial form ’ , the ‘ essence ’ , or ‘ transcendental unity ’ of religion , is comprehended not by deducing it from the common elements of particular religions as a kind of abstraction , but in and through the language and traditions of particular religions . |
| 49 | Where outsiders , not under agency control , respond to rule-breaking which comes to light by reporting it to the enforcement agency , investigative and enforcement work is initiated reactively . |
| 50 | I did get around this by approaching it from the other side : I added gain to the clean modes and it all came together well . |
| 51 | He angered even the faithful by doing it in the middle of the night , announcing he would slash spending to close a gaping budget deficit and promising to use the new tax revenue to bolster poor school districts . |
| 52 | You may well be able to foretell how the card may operate by examining it against the picture of the results on page 28 of the manual . |
| 53 | It has led some people to argue that the only sensible way to study learning is by examining it in the ecological conditions to which it is adapted ( Johnston , 1981 ) . |
| 54 | Flagyl can also be fed to the affected fish ( if they are still active and feeding ) by mixing it with the food at a level of 1% . |
| 55 | ‘ I hate cocaine , ’ he said finally , and he surprised me by saying it for the Maggot had always struck me as one of life 's rebels . |
| 56 | The patient is taught to lift his arm by gripping it behind the elbow with his other hand , drawing it gently forwards and up keeping the elbow straight , palm facing upwards , as he leans forwards from the hips . |
| 57 | The tune can , of course , always bear strengthening , and this can be done either by giving it to the two trumpets in unison , and the alto and tenor parts to the tenor trombones , or by giving the alto and tenor parts to the 2nd trumpet and 1st trombone respectively and doubling the tune in the lower octave on the 2nd trombone . |
| 58 | To this view in recent years has been added the opinion that great benefits would be attached to stabilising Britain 's currency by linking it to the Deutschmark . |
| 59 | Union power had to be broken , and this was achieved by linking it with the breakdown in law and order . |
| 60 | In Cuba , for example , ‘ figures of the Wars of Independence , like Marti and Maceo , or of the 1933 revolution [ against the dictator Machado ] … give the revolution legitimacy by linking it with the historic past and , at least in the case of the heroes of 1933 , they have been in a very real sense the inspiration of the present revolutionary leaders , to a far greater degree than Marx and Lenin' ( Lambert : 1977 , p. 237 ) . |