Example sentences of "to do it by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such disputes , wrote a successful English diplomat in the 1670s , " seem to me but so many impertinencies that are grown this last age into the character of Ambassadors ; having been raised and cultivated by men , who , wanting other talents to value themselves upon in those employments , endeavoured to do it by exactness or niceties in the forms " . |
| 2 | A traditional manager will attempt to do it by fault-finding and non-stop nagging . |
| 3 | And we had the pit ponies and where we did n't have the pit ponies drawing the hutches , which we termed the small wagons carrying the coal from the coal face to the pit bottom , then er we had to do it by hand . |
| 4 | I think they 've all got their own washing machines on the ward and that sort of thing , whereas we had to do it by hand and then bundle it all up and send it down to the laundry . |
| 5 | The standard alternative to raising money by shares is to do it by borrowing . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm one of those people who can eat and drink what I like and not put on weight , so I had to do it by weight training and build up the muscle weight , ’ he adds . |
| 7 | No , you do n't need to do it by eye . |
| 8 | Four volts of electricity will split the sodium chloride into its constituent sodium and chlorine atoms , whereas a temperature of 40 000 degrees would be required to do it by heat alone . |