Example sentences of "by [verb] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in recognizing the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ as absolute we run up against that imbalance of the organism in the direction of what pleases it , by which it spontaneously expands awareness in one direction by contracting it in others . |
| 2 | This lining can be fitted to the outer curtain by hanging it from the same curtain hooks ( fig. 26a ) , or from the base of the glider on a track with combined hook/gliders ( fig. 26b ) . |
| 3 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 4 | Silas gritted , leaping from the bed and straightening his shirt by tucking it into his trousers . |
| 5 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 6 | Geometrical demonstrations which prove something to be true of all triangles do not do so by proving it to be true of an abstract triangle to which all triangles correspond . |
| 7 | The bolt-rig works like this : the carp picks up the bait by sucking it into its mouth , but on the outward journey , when it blows to eject it , the hook point ( which is bare in a hair-rig remember ) pricks the carp 's mouth . |
| 8 | The rig is partly used to steer the board through the turn by angling it across the board into wind . |
| 9 | If Superstores own-brands the coffee it sells , it can avoid liability by labelling it with a statement such as ‘ Made for Superstores by Coffee Fellers Inc . ’ |
| 10 | There is another way in which we can inspect the growth of population , and that is by seeing it at work in all the various classes of society . |
| 11 | The temptation to say the coin caused the bar to come out can be explained by seeing it for the ordinary cause that it was , and of what event it was the cause , and of what nearby event it was not the cause . |
| 12 | That is , an object seen as one sort of structure can be experienced ( and imagined ) in ways different from those made possible by seeing it as another sort of structure . |
| 13 | By treating his subject as widely as possible , by seeing it in terms of the history of war , rather than as the more narrowly defined military history , the modern student will come to understand it in its many facets and complexities . |
| 14 | Attach the first fabric panel by centring it between the outside edge of the first vertical batten and the middle of the second one . |
| 15 | He embraces suicide as deed , as the one true act in a false world , as supreme podvig , as feat to end feats , God-killing , god-making ; and in doing so he exemplifies , as others before and Ivan Karamazov after him , the truth that Dostoevsky can only satisfy his hunger for crisis and clarity by bestowing it on the enemy . |
| 16 | In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust . |
| 17 | This legislation is designed not only to counteract the violence by harsh , emergency measures , but also to undermine the political nature of the violence by characterising it as mere criminality ; the hope being that it will diminish the level of public support for those involved . |
| 18 | There is an art to the task ; it is possible , otherwise , to put out the fire by smothering it with too much fuel , or even to poke it up too hard so that the last embers blaze up and the fire dies . |
| 19 | VAT on acquisitions can be recovered as input VAT in the normal way by including it within box 4 on the VAT return , subject of course to any partial exemption or non-business restriction , but acquisition VAT should be shown as a separate item on the trader 's own VAT account . |
| 20 | Dove dedicated the book to Admiral Robert FitzRoy [ q.v. ] , head of the Meteorological Department established under the Board of Trade in 1854 , and FitzRoy ensured its acceptance within Britain by including it in his series of Meteorological Papers . |
| 21 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 22 | Also added to StreetTalk is the Advanced Object facility , which makes it easier to locate and identify network objects — such as users , resources , applications lists etc — by allowing it to be identified by name , and having an unlimited number of attributes associated with it . |
| 23 | So when it is argued today that the sexual deviant challenges sexual difference by denaturalizing it through parody , the realization of the early modern transvestite that both the deviant and the difference are effects of culture rather than nature is being revived and sophisticated . |
| 24 | While LIFESPAN RDBI is running the error log file may be accessed by typing it to the screen . |
| 25 | An old , glazed porcelain sink can be transformed into a water garden by coating it with an artificial stone mixture . |
| 26 | The effect of a specific sequence on gene expression was therefore assessed by cloning it into the Bam HI site at -105 in this promoter . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 28 | Even when all intended partners of the new firm have indicated assent it will still be necessary to establish some order of seniority and to select the first senior partner : though joint senior partners are not unknown , the better arrangement may be for some restriction to be put upon the time that office is held by any one individual so that by rotating it between the participating firms a reasonable balance is achieved . |
| 29 | This privilege must not be abused by using it for something which is not a point of order . |
| 30 | Lawyers acquire a smattering of technical jargon and by using it to each other create the impression that they have a full comprehension of the subject . |