Example sentences of "this by [verb] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | TNCs tend to get round this by buying up or establishing their own local suppliers ( see Bennett and Sharp , 1985 ) . |
| 2 | They go about this by jumping up and down a lot and cranking the drum machine up to unfeasible volumes . |
| 3 | Dennis and his friend Tommy want to stop this by setting up a National Centre where doctors and medical scientists can undertake research to prevent premature birth . |
| 4 | We can do this by setting up a role play . |
| 5 | The 1944 Education Act provided for this by drawing up what is called the dual system of county schools ( ie non-denominational ) and Aided Schools whether Catholic or Church of England where a denominational education and environment would be provided . |
| 6 | As sure as Concorde 's nose is pointed , the partners ' governments will have to subsidise this by coughing up so-called ‘ launch aid ’ . |
| 7 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 8 | Airtours 's progress reflected this by notching up its sixth successive year of profits . |
| 9 | It does , however , make it more likely to happen , and facilitates this by opening up the political space in which local differentiation can occur . |
| 10 | Do this by tying up the ball valve ( so the kitchen tap still operates ) and opening the cold taps even if it is a hot tap which is being rewashered . |
| 11 | Only two years ago I myself wrote an essay which uses all three of these mechanisms directly about Rose of Lima : it diagnoses her ‘ problem ’ as a sado-masochistic relationship to God , it relates this causally to a religious culture which is viciously sexist and heterosexist , and it suggests that we deal with all this by growing up into spiritual maturity and putting such alarming eccentricities behind us . |