Example sentences of "[vb infin] it by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computers can catch it by using floppy discs holding infected programmes , or from programmes copied off an electronic bulletin board , which is where it was probably first planted . |
| 2 | You ca n't win it by changing the parameters er if you do change the parameters of course then you 'll be fighting a different war and your objectives then become different . |
| 3 | I was disgusted by the whole idea of class and thought I could abolish it by pretending it did n't exist . |
| 4 | My Lords , I think I made it perfectly clear what I did mean er I did qualify it by saying that of course there are times when patients do have to wait on trolleys for diagnostic purposes , for observation and for other reasons er but once an admission has been agreed , then that patient should be admitted , that is our policy and that is what we 're working towards . |
| 5 | If the receipt message is acceptable , the holder may subsequently update it by requesting , for example , that the date and place of shipment be inserted in the message as soon as the goods have been loaded on board . |
| 6 | Could I improve it by running the gearbox on TQF instead of GTX oil ? |
| 7 | We might do it amongst our family , we can do it er by you know helping within the family , you can do it by helping in the community , all sorts of different ways . |
| 8 | If you can not do it by constructing the notion of pains which are not yours , you can not do it any other way . |
| 9 | You can do it by scrubbing the Navy . |
| 10 | It 's not really desperately important cos I can do it by using a list rather than a map but it 's just somehow easier to refer |
| 11 | And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance . |
| 12 | Now I know I could do it by getting a little deeper into things but can anyone think of a pure MS-DOS way of doing it ? |
| 13 | But I might do it by talking to them rather than by writing to them . |
| 14 | It seems if we agree to these new constituents coming through , we 'll only do it by having additional buildings which are utterly wasteful and quite honestly Mr Deputy Speaker , I think you 'll your constituents a very distressed indeed about the waste , the fraud and the mismanagement of the E C , of course Sir . |
| 15 | Its good reception encouraged Boyle to set pen to paper , publishing his results in June 1663 , at which time he observed , ‘ Nor is it only by dissection of various animals that the naturalist may promote the anatomist 's knowledge , but perhaps he may do it by devising ways to make the dead bodies of man and other animals keep longer than naturally they would do . ’ |
| 16 | Could you do it by adding up on paper ? |
| 17 | Can you see it by looking at it without touching it ? |
| 18 | Language is activity and we will not understand it by trying to put a static model of a complete language-system into the lead of an individual user . |
| 19 | Its mystery somehow diminished life , or did it enlarge it by making life and its purpose more mysterious still . |
| 20 | ‘ … they could n't stop it by confiscating Highlander . |
| 21 | If he can not lift the leg unaided , he may move it by clasping his hands together just below the knee , holding the shin bone firmly , and using his hands to lift the leg up , shifting his weight sideways towards his unaffected side as he does so . |
| 22 | In case your bike is stolen , make it easier for the police to identify and recover it by marking the frame with your postcode . |
| 23 | Farmers can control it by ploughing it in . ’ |
| 24 | Its intrepid pilot will control it by hauling on the suspension lines to angle the lift generated by the canopy . |
| 25 | Some leading exponents of the popular movement believed that if large quantities of money were sent to support the Uprising they would , instead , destroy it by creating political jealousies and deflecting the Uprising from the central theme of self-reliance . |
| 26 | Vietnam 's withdrawal is the best opportunity he will have to lead his country once more , but he may botch it by taking one political twist too many . |
| 27 | If you have a dog that behaves in this fashion , do not encourage it by making soothing noises , entreating it to calm down . |
| 28 | So you get long beep , short beep , long beep , short beep , that 's the successful switching tone , you 'll know it 's worked , and you go trotting back to your office , you get 75 seconds again , it 's like the hold , before it starts to ring , or you can access it by keying in what ? |
| 29 | He can not approach it by superimposing successive and ever more accurate ( more informed ) mental approximations to the real thing ; he can not name it , like an object , without fear of equivocation ; but rather it lies here , in the moment through which he is passing , and the important thing is to see that . |
| 30 | Doing the whole male fantasy trip 's always been a negative image for women to project , but we 're not gon na change it by telling people what to do . |