Example sentences of "by [v-ing] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bucolic finale also goes rapidly , but I can not complain , since Mozart invites that by labelling it both Vivace and a minuet . |
| 2 | Thereafter , the authorities had the evidence from the JCP 's own objectives to justify the suppression and extinction of opposition by labelling it Marxist . |
| 3 | But it does this by denying it any moral status at all . |
| 4 | Lower a too-high ceiling by painting it darker . |
| 5 | In turn , these tactics demand certain fly patterns , and by relating it all together , I can predict , with surprising accuracy , the flies I 'm likely to need on any particular combination of wind and weather . |
| 6 | For that belief is not analytically or necessarily true ; no contradiction is implied by supposing it false . |
| 7 | Regarding the winning Hands On feature in March Woodworker , despite the well-intended editorial footnote , I do feel it was a mistake to include Bill Wiseman 's fascinating but appallingly dangerous hold-down device , and to then endorse it in a recommendatory way by awarding it special recognition . |
| 8 | Can we make the Church real to society by turning it political ; by making its essence not old creeds but moral judgements on bombs , or on socialist policy ? |
| 9 | The sergeant instructed him to take him into the police station and charge him with taking a vehicle without consent — the offence as complete by moving it thirty yards . |
| 10 | However , Joshua Smith intervened by buying it all up before the sale , and advanced Emma a sum on its security with which she could pay more outstanding bills . |
| 11 | Then was down in Middlesbrough for a couple of days that week , and er , I think amused everybody by calling it miserable all the time , I dread to think what . |
| 12 | Mesic ( its president ) responded by calling it unconstitutional , and said that those attending " will have joined the putsch " — a reference to the Serbian parliament 's adoption on Sept. 27 of a document on the future form of Yugoslavia , based on consultations between Serbia , Montenegro and representatives of Serbian areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina , which the parliament declared open to agreement by other republics . |
| 13 | but by doing it that way , I mean I Phyl was er bowling Tuesday night and I said I was probably having a meal out anyway |
| 14 | If you go to a house and you realize that it 's only a very small house and it 's a very big van you 'll only pack it up that way because you 're packing faster by doing it that way . |
| 15 | But I 'm certain , by doing it this way , we will encourage females to put in for these these posts . |
| 16 | This could be made slightly less astringent by mixing it 50/50 with a flower water or distilled water . |
| 17 | The colliery owners undertook to support the new Union by giving it sole negotiating rights ; by agreeing to deduct the Union contribution from wages ; by contributing 12,500 to the Union 's pension fund and by harrying known members of the NMA . |
| 18 | Two hours later , when he had finished , Manville began to double-check it , by re-translating it all back into English . |
| 19 | And when they sited their power stations , they decided erm , again for good economic reasons , to site them er along the channel coast and actually down the , down the Rhine most of the power stations are , are er th they have power stations elsewhere but a lot of the power stations are in these areas here and the reason for that was , by putting it near to their borders , they were able to export electricity to their neighbours . |
| 20 | The Video Recordings Act 1984 was intended to outlaw the ‘ video nasties ’ which were causing such a panic at the time , by making it illegal to distribute films on video which have not received a certificate from the British Board of Film Classification . |
| 21 | And they 'll sweeten up customers by making it six per cent bigger for the same 24p price . |
| 22 | The safety lamp killed , like iron rail , flat ropes and cages , not by reducing safety , which it clearly did n't , but by making it possible to expose vastly increased numbers of miners to that deadly mixture , geology and profit-hungry entrepreneurs . |
| 23 | By making it possible for a vivid and urgent desire for power to exist alongside a consciousness of being the legitimate and predestined possessor of it , they kept the edge on the governing classes . |
| 24 | Nowadays , we are well used to this switching back and forth , and cutaways are used not only to hide jump-cuts but also to telescope time by making it possible to remove uninteresting parts of lengthy actions . |
| 25 | A new GetBulk PDU facilitates the retrieval of large amounts of data , such as tables , by making it possible to bundle a series of GetNext requests into a single request-response operation , improving performance . |
| 26 | Although such measures had been and were still attacked , by the COS for example , for discouraging parental responsibility , it was equally arguable that they strengthened such responsibilities by making it possible for poor families to carry them out . |
| 27 | The French would be content so long as the arrangement was for them to sell abroad ; there can , however , be no question of France permitting her massive investment in nuclear power to be undermined by making it possible for French consumers to buy in from abroad . |
| 28 | Thus could the very first and important step in the rise of god-worship have been initiated , by making it unnecessary for there to be an actual physical connection between the objects of faith and the believer . |
| 29 | If anything it will make their lives easier by making it impossible for American companies and citizens to keep anything confidential . ’ |
| 30 | The overall length of a longitudinal study may be shortened somewhat by making it semi-longitudinal . |