Example sentences of "[noun] by putting " in BNC.

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1 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario , 17 , made a late charge into the hearts of the fans by putting the frighteners on Martina Navratilova , to race through the first set 6-0 , in just 25 minutes , cracking winners at every opportunity .
2 Do n't strain your eyes by putting up with poor lighting .
3 In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene .
4 It is perfectly open to LEAs to obtain higher capital allocations from my Department by putting forward sensible proposals to rationalise their school provision .
5 In order to show that this is indeed the Kerr solution , we first relabel the parameters by putting ( 13.23 ) which satisfies the condition for arbitrary constants M and α .
6 Shaun Taylor lifted the tedium by putting Swindon ahead after 75 minutes , but they were restricted to their 10th away draw of the season four minutes later when Billy Clark headed an unexpected equaliser from Ian Alexander 's free-kick .
7 The Liberal Democrats intend to concentrate on the prevention of crime by putting more policemen on the beat and setting up special committees to discuss law and order .
8 As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured …
9 At 200 for 6 , Malcolm got Moseley and Ambrose ran out Hooper , only to make amends by putting on 34 for the ninth wicket with Bishop which would prove vital .
10 He argued the congested roads and lack of parking spaces adversely affected the town 's all-important tourist industry by putting off visitors .
11 This follows from the theorem by putting B = A , C = I. ( ii ) The eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix are all real .
12 The worker then reduces it to its proper thinness by putting its head in the cells on either side of the wall and shaving off layers from the face of it .
13 Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it .
14 Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it .
15 The court has been told that How cheated his clients by putting their money into risky investments and property deals .
16 IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT .
17 IBM Corp 's dismantling of the Armonk politburo to follow Chairman Mao 's ‘ Let 100 Flowers Bloom ’ dictum has really let the genie out of the bottle , and Infoworld has been talking to consultants that say the company is planning to enter the tents of the enemy by putting a version of the DB2 database up under Windows NT .
18 This wider context for LMS makes clear the government 's intention of creating a more competitive environment for schools by putting them very firmly in the market-place .
19 It is reasonably easy to open the dog 's mouth by putting your left hand on either side of the upper jaw , while prizing the lower jaw apart with your other hand .
20 And he got you into the coach by putting his toe in your backside , and he was only stopped from horsewhipping you by Mama 's gentle persuasion .
21 And three days before these lines were written , English Heritage set the seal on Eliot 's Kensington associations by putting a plaque on the block where he spent his last and happiest years .
22 The social worker will be like a skilled ‘ friend ’ to them , who can help them in many areas of their life , perhaps by suggesting ways of overcoming loneliness by putting them in contact with the type of activity , club , Day Centre or workshop that would interest them , and arranging suitable transport for this ; or , if they are not particularly keen on group social activities , sometimes by finding individual volunteers to visit them and take them out ; although it should be remembered that no social worker or voluntary visitor can ever be a real substitute for care from their own family .
23 Few have done more over the years to encourage and inspire the growth and development of tennis by putting it on as professional footing as possible .
24 Midfield player Mark Proctor celebrated his recall by putting Boro ahead after 15 minutes .
25 I find it convenient to control the ferret 's movements by putting one foot on the line .
26 At 11 he won a seat on the school council by putting up his best friend to split the opposition vote ( ‘ I always was a devious bugger ’ ) , at 14 he joined Greenpeace and at 16 paid thirty bob to become a Liberal .
27 Where there is a likelihood that the purchaser could achieve the best return by putting the company into liquidation , and would in practice be able to carry this out , then the assets basis valuation using break-up values should be applied .
28 Saunders partly deflects criticism of this sort by putting forward the dual state thesis as an ‘ ideal-type ’ , claiming that it is a research strategy rather than an account of reality , and that its aim is to develop a framework which suggests research questions and which can be evaluated analytically but not empirically .
29 To take but one other example from an experimental approach common in the late 1960s and early 1970s , suppose one trains a mouse by putting it onto a small shelf in the wall of a cage with a grid flour which can be electrified .
30 It also follows that one can not talk specifically about ‘ marked theme ’ in FSP theory , since the question of producing a marked theme by putting an element in initial position in the clause assumes that initial position is reserved for theme .
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