Example sentences of "by [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It will give your business quicker reflexes by speeding up the whole production process , from planning to delivery . |
| 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 | Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its provisions included : enforcing a 20 percent reduction in Californian carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2000 , with a 40 percent reduction by 2010 ; protecting the earth 's ozone shield by speeding up the internationally agreed phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons and other damaging chemicals ; banning offshore drilling for oil in state waters ; saving the ancient redwood forests ; and requiring that a new tree be planted for every 500 square feet of development . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In engineering terms we want to recover the signal from a message by filtering out the noise . |
| 10 | 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near the origin may be reduced by filtering out the low-frequency components of equations ( 6 ) ( P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events . |
| 15 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The most lethal of all electric fish has solved this problem by stepping up the voltage . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just wan na wrap this up now erm by bringing in the erm example of Greece . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Russell Stannard , in a book on relativity written for children , explains how Einstein made his discoveries , not by finding new experimental results , but by drawing out the implications of what was already well-known . |
| 29 | Shock is dissipated by drawing back the hands . |
| 30 | Shock is dissipated by drawing back the hands . |