Example sentences of "by pressing [art] " in BNC.

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1 Help can be summoned from ACET or other services merely by pressing a button on a pendant worn around the neck .
2 What is interesting about the system is that the driver can decide for himself — by pressing a button — whether or not he wants to use these features .
3 It is operated simply by pressing a button .
4 Much of the ceramic material in eastern England , less so in the south , is stamped , that is decorated by pressing a carved die or naturally occurring object into the surface .
5 The NCOAP began by pressing a universalist demand but was eventually forced to accept a compromise which , although in line with working-class notions of respectability , did not reflect the absolute material wants of the many .
6 By pressing a button on the front display panel , users can choose the IBM 9337 mode they want to emulate , and the level of protection they require and the 7737 can be configured for full compatibility with IBM 's 010 , 020 , 110 , and 120 .
7 Its eponym , the harpist Ludovico , is believed to have produces falsas ( chromatic ‘ wrong notes ’ ) by pressing a finger against a string to shorten its sounding length — King uses instead a type of double harp that was known at that time — and this device is still used by folk harpists in South America .
8 On the drivechart the decision points , represented by square boxes , each offer a natural group of alternative routes to the teacher , who chooses one by pressing a single key — eg , ‘ 1 ’ selects the inverse problem where the computer provides the ‘ output ’ number from the named function and invites the class to guess the ‘ input ’ number .
9 For instance , a buzzer will sound , followed one second later by a series of flashes of light , which the subject has to turn off by pressing a button .
10 It would even be possible for people to watch a political or parliamentary debate at home on television , and then register their vote or opinion at the end of it by pressing a button or making a free phone-call .
11 This allowed me to select words from a series of menus on the screen by pressing a switch in my hand .
12 The stimuli were presented visually and the subject responded by pressing a button if the sequence of words was meaningful .
13 View this as a system for setting up three-dimensional banks of text and graphics , between which the ‘ reader ’ can jump at will by pressing a special key when a highlight on screen shows there is a link to material on another layer .
14 Well on the , on the whole-time manned stations , that 's done by pressing a button and , and an alarm is sounded , it 's er a horn , type of horn that sounds off , er that 's easy enough .
15 Incoming messages can be stored in the teleprinter 's memory until the printer is free , or by pressing an attend call an incoming message can be given priority .
16 Fine-tuning of the rpm level is done by pressing the top button ( rpm up ) or bottom button ( rpm down ) .
17 You should find that you can change the output states by pressing the appropriate set or reset switch .
18 Assume the bistable is set by pressing the TRIGGER switch , S1 , Q becomes 1 and current passes to the base of the transistor , TR1 , via resistor R3 and operates buzzer , WD1 .
19 the following ball can then by played by pressing the Bowl switch S3 .
20 When the game is initially switched on a number of the field l.e.d.s may light up , but by pressing the Return Ball button the bowler positions the ball at his own end of the pitch .
21 The bowler starts things off by pressing the Bowl button ; the ‘ ball ’ will then move down the pitch at a rate selected by the Bowling rate switch .
22 Like the ME-6 , the top of the ME-10 offers all the programming information at a glance ; plus , all the effects and their relevant parameters can be switched in and out just by pressing the corresponding label printed onto the membrane which covers the surface of the top .
23 Mode 2 offers instant patch selection by pressing the actual patch number ( hitting switch 3 and 6 gives patch 36 ) , while Mode 3 can be used to switch on or off ( via the ten preset switches ) any patch parameter .
24 Instead , stretch , curl up and slowly reach sitting position by pressing the palm of your hands on the floor , keeping your chin down , touching your throat .
25 Ali-Ashgar Ahani , 27 , an Iranian hunter , tried to catch a snake alive near Tehran by pressing the butt of his shotgun behind its head .
26 To save the shot , you can then do one of two things : reframe the shot to exclude the sky , perhaps by moving to an angle where the sky is obscured by a building ; or , correct for the backlight either by pressing the backlight button or by making a manual adjustment to the iris ( depending on which facility is provided on your machine ) .
27 Yes , before you all write in , I do know that by pressing the yellow button on the machine I will be told when I need to knit with the main carriage , but ( hand on heart ) how many of you have got carried away and done one too many strokes with the lace carriage ?
28 Now set the back carriage to slip , by pressing the O button .
29 Once you are familiar with the program , selections from the current menu can be made more quickly by pressing the key for the initial letter of the option you require , or you can bypass the menus altogether for some of the most frequently used options by using the predefined HOTKEYS .
30 By pressing the ENTER key without typing in a file name , you will be able to see a list of all the patterns that are supplied in the COLPATS directory .
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