Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As special deposits are compulsory , by using them the Bank can be sure of reducing the banks ' liquid assets , and they are equivalent to an open-market sale , in that they reduce the banks ' ability to increase credit ( and hence the money supply ) . |
| 2 | We 're already gearing-up to launch a brand-new(ish) C64 action magazine onto the market — COMMODORE FORCE — but in the meantime we 're going to bow out gracefully by bringing you the ZZAP ! er 's guide to reincarnation . |
| 3 | The USSR Supreme Soviet , in a resolution of Feb. 25 , declared that the decision by republican authorities not to hold the referendum violated citizens ' civil rights by denying them the right to vote . |
| 4 | The creditor may have done enough by superintending himself the execution of the document and by attempting to assure himself by means of questions or explanation that she knows to what she is committing herself . |
| 5 | By dismissing him the Respondent left a cloud over his honesty which can be removed only by full vindication in respect of that . |
| 6 | by looking what the crime ra , who 's |
| 7 | Belinda wheeled the trolley over and helped Faye by passing her the lancet and reading the reagent strip for her . |
| 8 | The earliest large-scale sculpture we have in limestone or marble does not go with the earliest Daedalic ; but the wide acceptance of such an individual style is most naturally explained by supposing it the creation of one artist or school producing major works at major sanctuaries . |
| 9 | Part of the refugee problem will be solved by granting them the right of return to Palestine ( i.e. the West Bank and Gaza Strip ) or to the Jordanian-Palestinian federation . ’ |
| 10 | From about 1205 onwards , the Plantagenets began to exert tighter control over them by granting them the constitutions known as the Etablissements de Rouen . |
| 11 | and let's give them some encouragement by awarding them the goal of the week … it was their first against Wycombe Wanderers on Tuesday night scored by centre forward Chris Pike … we want more |
| 12 | It would be a tragic error to buy this man out of Kuwait by awarding him the starring role in Arab dealings with Israel . |
| 13 | He had already shown his mettle on February 13 that year by leading what the Gable guide calls ‘ The archetypal Hard Severe ’ , namely the hand traverse variant on Pillar Rock 's North Climb . |
| 14 | The beauty of such methods is that they can never be proved wrong since , by ignoring what the people concerned themselves think , you have removed any empirical basis for testing the interpretations . |
| 15 | I am sure I could sting this town 's senile pensioners for a couple of quid , by selling them the old tea hut as firewood . |
| 16 | The English government followed this up by sending them the preacher John Rughe , and by giving pensions to some Scottish preachers . |
| 17 | However she was honest enough to feel that , as she had begun the courting by sending him the valentine , she ought not to refuse him now . |
| 18 | He 'd kept his part by buying me the nightdress , now it was up to me to keep mine . |
| 19 | She wanted to please him , to see him smile , and tease her by calling himself the Master , and pretending that she was his slave . |
| 20 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 21 | But to suggest that a speech community is diffuse ( or internally divergent ) is not to imply that it is necessarily unpatterned or unstructured : on the contrary , our task is to find out how the variation is structured by demonstrating what the patterns in the community are like . |
| 22 | This is best answered by asking what the desired goal is . |
| 23 | They have done this by asking what the British really want from a holiday . |
| 24 | Lord Diplock went on to test the question arising in the case by asking what the words of the relevant section of the Act of 1968 meant in ordinary conversation . |
| 25 | Well I think this war the aim of this war is to achieve erm minimum casualty , and by doing what the allied forces are doing by denying the Iraqui forces the logistics such as transportations and communication system is very vital to reduce the power of the enemy and then you can force him to retreat , or you can weaken the army that will result in minimum casualty for the allied forces . |
| 26 | Not by doing it the speed he 's doing it . |
| 27 | The formal literal meaning of the words is the locution ; the act which is performed by saying it the illocution ; a third layer is the perlocution or overall aim of the discourse . |
| 28 | Be prepared to demonstrate by telling a story yourself and playing it back , or it may be diplomatic to start by recording what the local people want , such as dance music or hymns or the local chief exhorting his people . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm thrilled that the board have shown faith in me by giving me the chance to work with them for another 12 months . |
| 30 | He managed somehow to get Caspar near the tree and by giving him the wrapping to chew he got him to stop barking . |