Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] virtue [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the one hand , a half-promise to save a new-born country , and to show that one lot of people may not dispossess another lot merely by virtue of being better armed ; on the other hand , a growing realisation that this could not be achieved without a fight in which an unknown number of young Europeans and Americans would be asked to die in the name of misty-sounding things like compassion and principle . |
| 2 | But is it true that we learn just by virtue of being busy and having lots of experiences ? |
| 3 | Either the compromises begin and records become more accessible , or the band leaves the label , usually by virtue of being dropped or , in contract parlance , the record company failing to take up the next year 's option . |
| 4 | All Japanese belonged to this ‘ family state ’ purely by virtue of being Japanese ; they were the emperor 's ‘ children ’ . |
| 5 | Along with theorists such as Ronald Dworkin ( 1979 ) and Alan Gewirth ( 1979 ) we would hold that each individual human being has certain fundamental rights which we possess equally by virtue of being human . |
| 6 | The majority team has an automatic resistance to being displaced , simply by virtue of being in the majority . |
| 7 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |