Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It will give your business quicker reflexes by speeding up the whole production process , from planning to delivery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Answer : by speeding up the processing of applicants to such an extent that the differences are relatively insignificant . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In engineering terms we want to recover the signal from a message by filtering out the noise . |
| 10 | 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near the origin may be reduced by filtering out the low-frequency components of equations ( 6 ) ( P.H. and D.A.K. , unpublished results ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Television offered either live coverage or by editing down the best moments presented a particularly dramatic version of events . |
| 15 | His aunt had always kept the door locked , fearing that children might venture into the mill and hurt themselves by tumbling down the ladders . |
| 16 | Members are listed by area of operation and further information and brochures can be obtained by contacting directly the schools of your choice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The most lethal of all electric fish has solved this problem by stepping up the voltage . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Bell termed this ‘ secondary clustering ’ and showed that , by using both the quotient and the remainder from the original division , it was possible to eliminate it . |
| 23 | We can measure the effects of some of the problems listed earlier , by using only the observations at the second time point . |
| 24 | Already looking at playing in the 1995 Rugby World Cup , Japan stole a march on emerging Asian rivals , Hong Kong , by bringing forward the dates of next year 's Asian Championship . |
| 25 | They agreed to tighten targets under the 1987 Montreal Protocol [ see p. 35678 ] by bringing forward the phasing-out of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) by four years to 1996 . |
| 26 | ‘ I consider it my duty to strive to ward off the calamity by bringing about the union of Palestine and Transjordan ’ , he told the Palestinians . |
| 27 | Each one of those millions of evolutionary changes by means of which the single cell multiplied and diversified into the vast complexity of all living things , was either ‘ good ’ , and contributing towards the development of the human being of today , or ‘ not good ’ and was therefore continuing the development of what was , or would become , a non-human species , or lost to evolution by bringing about the extinction of a species . |
| 28 | Mr Paul Wolfowitz , under-secretary for defence policy , warned against trying to cash in the potential defence savings too early , by bringing home the troops and scaling down the armed forces before the situation in Europe had stabilised to the point where a sensible long-term policy could be drafted . |
| 29 | Mrs Imelda Marcos , widow of the late President Ferdinand Marcos , hopes to resuscitate her ailing political campaign by bringing home the body of her late husband on April 12 . |
| 30 | By bringing home the pick-ups he despises |