Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is well known that each vessel contributes to movement of the lymph by contracting once every 6–10 seconds in response to being gorged with fluid from the vessel upstream . |
| 2 | My tiny kitchen has been given a rustic look by hanging up a hop bine from a farm , and a string of onions ( 99p ) adds the finishing touch . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It will give your business quicker reflexes by speeding up the whole production process , from planning to delivery . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Welsh striker , under pressure after a recent barren run , ended 1992 in style by lashing home a ferocious second half volley to deny Manchester City their first Anfield triumph in a decade . |
| 11 | According to Livy , Scipio Africanus celebrated his triumph by parading over a thousand elephant tusks along with captured standards and a great quantity of gold and silver . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In engineering terms we want to recover the signal from a message by filtering out the noise . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So Today I brought and there 's an example here Today I brought joy where there was sadness by cheering up a friend who was fed up . |
| 17 | She had to seduce Jim by whipping off a false beard disguise and transforming herself into an exotic belly-dancer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the few cases where the church plan diverges from the conventional arrangement by including only a single side aisle rather than the normal two , this volume , rather than the nave space , can be used to accommodate the dwellings access corridor , although it is noteworthy that in the conversion of St James 's Church , Farnham , Surrey , which is also described in this chapter , the optimum cross-sectional treatment of such an asymmetrical plan placed the longitudinal access corridor in the former nave space , the aisle projection being used to accommodate living-rooms . |
| 21 | It was Jones who set up Swansea 's first try by firing out a quick , decisive pass which Scott Gibbs took on the burst to drive over . |
| 22 | Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events . |
| 23 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 24 | Robinson begin by rattling off a handful of saccharine songs that sound like little more than fast-paced lift music . |
| 25 | Members are listed by area of operation and further information and brochures can be obtained by contacting directly the schools of your choice . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The most lethal of all electric fish has solved this problem by stepping up the voltage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The whole manoeuvre would have been far safer if the leaper did not touch the horns at all , by using either the ‘ Diving Leap ’ or the ‘ Somersault Leap ’ described above . |