Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were even occasional suggestions that relations between states be eased and simplified by abandoning the whole idea of an order of precedence betwen sovereigns . |
| 2 | The larger mire , Thorne Waste , approached by surmounting the incongruous dereliction of Moor Ends Colliery , stretches out as far as the eye can see , an astonishing 6,000 acres of untamed wetland . |
| 3 | Now the usual type of detector only indicates the magnitude of the potential difference between B and D. Thus , if balance is approached by reducing the in-phase component of , there will be a range of phasor potential differences across the detector , say , to , that corresponds to magnitudes of potential differences indistinguishable from the minimum . |
| 4 | Instead they can occupy the left- and right-hand portions of a single 2n-bit register After a multiplier bit has been examined , it is dropped by shifting the partial product and multiplier together one position to the right . |
| 5 | That 's a sprinter 's example , but it 's the same for any athletic performance , as I 've just been reminded by watching the astonishing improvement of Ray Davidson in these past few years . |
| 6 | It seems that Hunter 's observations on thrombosis in veins were supplemented by noting the local effect of phlebotomy in the horse . |
| 7 | Single genes ( the units of heredity ) can now be transferred , added or deleted by manipulating the genetic material . |
| 8 | This obligation is often discharged by incorporating the required information ( see para 17.2.3 below ) in the press announcement of the firm intention to make the offer . |
| 9 | A possible late arrival at Aberystwyth on the west bound leg behind Standard 4 No 75069 was averted by repeating the previous week 's curtailed stop at Machynlleth . |
| 10 | When , in 1856 , Nikolai Pirogov began to write about educational matters in the press , the government responded by re-establishing the long-dead Academic Committee of the Ministry of Education . |
| 11 | The government has responded by increasing the military presence in the area , while the " Mindanao Defenders " , an irregular civilian paramilitary force of a type common in the Philippines , is beginning to intimidate the protestors . |
| 12 | Libyan bombers responded by attacking the government-held town of Arada . |
| 13 | Spending on health services , which the old also use more than younger people , is forecast by multiplying the expected number of people in each age group by the average real spending for each group in 1980 . |
| 14 | This is being solved by getting the third-party channels to sell PowerPlay and Impromptu on a straight distribution basis rather than on a value-added basis . |
| 15 | Router movement can be solved by changing the holding bolts for longer ones with a fine thread and fitting very thick washers , so enabling the nuts to be fully tightened without the router getting in the way of the spanner . |
| 16 | A lot of the problems of alleged and actual extremism by local councils might , of course , be solved by changing the local voting system ( not necessarily the thin end of a nation wedge ) but Mrs Thatcher will never consider that . |
| 17 | Perhaps the problem could be solved by amending the Public Health Act 1936 on the lines of s.58(1) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 in order to enable local authorities to act where a nuisance is likely to occur . |
| 18 | Where such an atmosphere of gloom persists it needs to be dispersed by affirming the Christian hope . |
| 19 | The attitude to foreign takeovers is now considered by studying the contested takeover for Rowntree . |
| 20 | The smaller ones are the most revealing , like the traffic jam created on E.42nd Street — done by repeating the existing cars in Gorgoni 's photograph . |
| 21 | Normalisation is done by taking the average rate of growth exhibited by the extra-area trading balances . |
| 22 | Propagation is done by dividing the sprouting rhizomes , which it develops after the first year , or by seed . |
| 23 | This can be done by comparing the relative frequency of use of different coding categories in the potential risks and description conditions . |
| 24 | This is done by making the appropriate entry on the form CT61 . |
| 25 | This can be done by making the new range of computers architecturally similar to earlier models , and by making improvements only in the technological implementation of this architecture ; alternatively we can use microprogrammed emulation , as discussed in 3.6 . |
| 26 | Le Grand , for example , insists that for egalitarian policies to succeed , ‘ it is necessary to reduce the hold of the ideology of inequality on people 's values and beliefs and this can only be done by challenging the factual underpinnings of that ideology . ’ |
| 27 | This can be done by tipping the leading edge up , so that water only flows over the lip when a reasonable quantity is being pumped . |
| 28 | This was done by regressing the natural logarithm of volatility on maturity ( M t ) , a weekend dummy ( D t ) and a proxy for the rate of information arrival . |
| 29 | Propagation is easily done by separating the small plants produced on runners . |
| 30 | Changing the Paper or Ink colours is done by pressing the required option on the menu until the word appears in the status window , then pressing the required colour . |