Example sentences of "[verb] to it by [verb] " in BNC.

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1	She listened in silence while the girl , who insisted on being called Claire because , she explained , people viewed her profession with enough scepticism without her adding to it by adopting some theatrical and phoney title , informed her that she had managed to prepare her birth chart .
2	Living artists would keep adding to it by making contributions from their works .
3	This is involuntary and undesirable and many firms will react to it by reducing output and laying off workers .
4	Whether she responds to it by producing special kinds of eggs destined to be soldiers or whether the workers treat the existing larvae in a special way is not certain .
5	Each of the six main sections of the programme starts with a brief analysis of the situation , and then responds to it by proposing a series of study processes .
6	If you have previously run BBCBASIC(Z80) , you can return to it by using the cursor keys to select BASIC from the list of suspended activities in the index .
7	The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria .
8	It was held that the agreement was void and that effect could not be given to it by rejecting the general restraint which appeared in it and limiting the agreement for the purposes of the action to carrying on the business of a tailor .
9	However , it would almost always be undesirable behaviour in any practical system ; presumably people reacted to it by saying ‘ something has gone wrong ’ and making adjustments to get rid of it .
10	To try and get to it by going round outside the garden wall meant ploughing through waist-high nettles and clumps of bramble .
11	So we can get to it by going up this way .
12	He decided not to pander to it by asking for the admirers name .

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