Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [pron] into " in BNC.

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1 You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk .
2 Silas gritted , leaping from the bed and straightening his shirt by tucking it into his trousers .
3 Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] .
4 The bolt-rig works like this : the carp picks up the bait by sucking it into its mouth , but on the outward journey , when it blows to eject it , the hook point ( which is bare in a hair-rig remember ) pricks the carp 's mouth .
5 So when it becomes clear that a criminal case is not proceeding as anticipated — a trial is not scuppered by lobbing something into the ring — there are discreet discussions between learned friends in chambers , many exchanges of the phrase ‘ I 'm much obliged ’ and finally the jury is summoned back .
6 We have compared the expression levels of VP6 and NS1 proteins in alternative sites by cloning one into the Bam HI site and the other in the Spe I/ Sma I sites or vice versa .
7 The effect of a specific sequence on gene expression was therefore assessed by cloning it into the Bam HI site at -105 in this promoter .
8 It seeks only to open up the lines of enquiry sketched out here ; and it does so in the hope that by bringing them into the debate , it may contribute towards a fuller and more objective assessment of Mary 's reign — and Mary 's misfortunes .
9 It is only by bringing them into the light of day that we can assess their cogency .
10 Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking .
11 In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ .
12 These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one .
13 It 's not easy to stay detached , so keep your fear at bay by transforming it into anger — not uncontrollable fury but angry determination .
14 The Parliament now proposes , and the Council of Ministers has agreed , that an SE may be formed by a public or private company by merging or forming a holding company , or indeed , if it has a presence in more than one Member State , by transforming itself into an SE .
15 Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis .
16 That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests .
17 The symbol discloses , not by presenting its meaning for inspection , but by drawing us into its own movement , thereby carrying us out of ourselves .
18 It has reinforced them by building them into practice budgets .
19 Other stunts included the breaking up of Labour party meetings and vandalizing a Daily Herald van by driving it into the railings of a London church .
20 Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context .
21 The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ?
22 The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has joined the swelling number of service providers officially endorsing the Network Management Forum 's OmniPoint network management specification by incorporating it into its procurement strategy .
23 The gene was transferred by splicing it into the DNA of a bacterium which naturally infects plant cells .
24 An objection which has been raised by Jürgen Moltmann ( see chapter 7 ) and by others who have been concerned to set our present time in the light of the eschatological emphasis of the New Testament is that Barth and his allies in the 1920s who aimed to recover that emphasis in fact misinterpreted it by twisting it into the ‘ eternal moment ’ of the encounter between time and eternity , ; and that his mature theology distorted it in a-different but equally damaging fashion by swallowing up the whole of time and history in the central history of Jesus Christ , and by dissolving that away in turn in the eternal self-determination of God within the council of the Trinity to be ‘ God for man ’ .
25 Light and portable products both chemical and equipment are best controlled by assembling them into ‘ kits ’ , ready for use in an improvised or specially provided container .
26 Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " .
27 Manipulating people by tricking them into doing something which is against their best interests is clearly bad .
28 To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done .
29 How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ?
30 This is an efficient and easy way to work out your story ideas in advance by translating them into film language before shooting begins .
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