Example sentences of "by make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started by making a plywood template of the arch , the top of the pillars being the baseline of the template , the radius to be fitted and assembled in the arch . |
| 2 | But the rumour in Germany is that a member of the public shopped Stuttgart by making a call to UEFA . |
| 3 | For many years the tax code has contained legislation to prevent a person avoiding higher rate income tax by making a settlement , while still retaining some rights to enjoy the income or capital of the settlement . |
| 4 | The commonest example of a voidable contract is one where a party has by making a mesrepresentation induced the other party to enter the contract . |
| 5 | Whenever the algorithm can not decide unambiguously which line to follow ( for example , at the intersection of two roads , or at a railway junction or a river confluence ) then the operator is asked to resolve the ambiguity by making a choice . |
| 6 | The People 's Liberation Army was told at the National People 's Congress in March to meet its financial needs by making a profit out of business operations … it sounds close to privatising the armed forces . |
| 7 | A more emphatic outline can be achieved by making a second cut round the outside of the first outline . |
| 8 | Now you can make that look even smarter by making a second white line on the outside . |
| 9 | Then Francis Crick ( Salk ) recalled how Avery 's work , buttressed by that of Hodgekiss and of Hershey and Chase , had led him to muse on how to copy a three-dimensional structure ; as with a sculpture , perhaps , by making a mould ? |
| 10 | Luke , whose big screen debut Buffy The Vampire Slayer is currently showing in British cinemas , escaped the emotional realities of his formative years by making a fool of himself . |
| 11 | ‘ By making a fool of me in front of my friends and associates , by acting cheap — ’ |
| 12 | 'Now I would like you to stop focussing upon the word ‘ calm ’ and instead turn your attention to your right hand … we are now going to create a sensation of tension in your right hand by making a fist . |
| 13 | [ After ten seconds ] And now we are going to create tension again in your right hand by making a fist … |
| 14 | My wife began , I know not whether by design or chance , to enquire what she should do , if I should by any accident die , to which I did give her some slight answer , but shall make good use of it to bring myself to some settlement for her sake , by making a will as soon as I can . ‘ |
| 15 | You can rid of deodorant stains by making a paste out of bicarbonate or soda and salt and applying this to the stain for 15 , minutes or soak the garment in a biological detergent . |
| 16 | A falsificationist will attempt to solve the problem by making a conjecture or hypothesis . |
| 17 | Six months in Switzerland was the first suggestion but later it was decided that I could combine business and health by making a trip to New Zealand and learning the pelt fur business from the practical source in the fell-mongeries there . |
| 18 | By making a magnetometer with two pickup coils at right angles and orienting it to give the maximum and null outputs referred to , the magnitude variations and angular variations are effectively separated . |
| 19 | By making a stand it is possible to hold the unit in position at a constant height above the worktop , while marking and drilling the holes , and then fixing the unit in place . |
| 20 | She would n't embarrass either of them by making a scene . |
| 21 | Rounded shapes require spokeshaves , rasps and abrasive paper , and an accurate profile can be obtained by making a hardboard template from the original . |
| 22 | Although Watson himself was not , therefore , personally responsible for the teaching of pupils inside the school , he was nevertheless a dedicated headmaster who , by making a success of the first educational asylum , firmly established the provision of deaf education in Britain . |
| 23 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 24 | Enfleurage is one method of doing this , by making a kind of sandwich with purified fat forming the " bread " , and the flower petals the contents of the sandwich . |
| 25 | In preparation for winter it will be busy putting on fat by eating all the wild fruit that it can find , and by making a nuisance of itself feeding on produce growing in the kitchen garden . |
| 26 | The only inconvenience of the original interior was that the bedrooms all led into one another ( just as they had always done in houses past : passages were only deemed essential when the segregation of servants became the norm in the eighteenth century ) ; but this was overcome by making a gallery and rearranging the staircase . |
| 27 | There is often a pulley and cleat provided for this purpose but on some older boards where it is not present you will have to improvise by making a loop in the bottom of the line . |
| 28 | A better type of soakaway can be constructed by making a chamber with open-jointed walling , a concrete base and an inspection cover . |
| 29 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 30 | We were able to respond by making a play within a play , setting it on a remote Japanese island and doing a Noh play . |