Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] by [v-ing] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he incorporates an evaluative criterion by arguing that a value orientation is more appropriate than others if it : |
| 2 | The West German Chancellor also fell into line with his French allies by agreeing that the Community should try to be ready to implement the economic union when the single market came fully into operation on January 1 , 1993 . |
| 3 | Graham Hough develops this argument as applied to English studies by claiming that the Christian-humanist ideal is now worn and battered , with a resulting confusion within literary education . |
| 4 | Let's not pretend that we can escape from our responsibility to these old people by pretending that the community will take care of them , that 's not the way it 's gon na be . |
| 5 | On Sept. 20 Iraq radio broadcast a commentary warning the USA against making a grave mistake by assuming that an attack on Iraq would merely mean regional conflict ; it would be an overall war , and Iraqis would take the war into the cities of the attacking nation if they were attacked . |
| 6 | The Colonel , trained in the proper management of war , diagnosed the General 's crude enthusiasm as excitement and gently tried to calm the old man by explaining that the sensible course was to wait until the artillery reached the town , and only then to mount an attack on the infantry who guarded the barricaded bridge . |
| 7 | They are , instead , handled by a different committee of the House whose main function is to secure the public interest by ensuring that the facts are as alleged and that all the appropriate procedures for promotion of the Bill , such as giving notice for objectors , as required by Standing Orders , have been gone through . |
| 8 | William Tite , the Liberal MP for Bath , and the only professional architect in the House of Commons , then made his first contribution towards the new Foreign Office by suggesting that the Government should form its own plan out of all the ideas produced so far , such as ‘ the plan of Sir J. Soane , that of Mr. Pennethorne , and also the plans in the present competitive exhibition ’ . |
| 9 | Scurrying about with jugs of ale , the twins — Martha and Ann — took advantage of the new turn-about in political matters by ensuring that the customers ' voices were well lubricated . |
| 10 | It had been assumed in the first phase of the research ( in the inner-city areas ) that considerable variation in length could be accommodated within the standard paradigm by assuming that the feature [ +low ] implied [ -long ] and vice versa . |
| 11 | Lake upset established orthodoxy by arguing that the arthropods are paraphyletic , arising before annelids and molluscs . |
| 12 | University posts , however , were an attractive means of obliging friends , and a good deal safer , for popular feeling was rarely aroused and it was relatively easy to escape from an importunate friend by arguing that the place had already been promised . |
| 13 | He caused international controversy at a press conference on the following day by suggesting that the effect of foreign prostitutes , who " ruin the atmosphere " of a neighbourhood , was comparable with the effect of blacks moving into white areas in the United States . |
| 14 | This can be converted into the more convenient factorial form by remembering that the product is equivalent to and so equation ( 8.14 ) can be written as |
| 15 | Callistus also offended Hippolytus ' moral rigorism by asserting that the power of the keys entrusted by the Lord to his church did not exclude authority to restore to communion penitent adulterers . |
| 16 | The stewards sent a shock wave through leading teams by admitting that the F1 Technical Delegate had found every team except Lola were using cars which conflicted with the technical regulations particularly in relation to active suspension and traction control . |
| 17 | The exemplary damages were claimed on the footing that the defendants had acted in an arrogant and high-handed manner by asserting that the water was fit to drink . |
| 18 | Procedural rights are also seem as protecting human dignity by ensuring that the individual is told why he is being treated unfavourably , and by enabling him to take part in that decision . |
| 19 | Labour moderates win over four of the hard left by agreeing that the cuts shall involve as few compulsory redundancies as possible . |
| 20 | The draft order enforced previous unwritten powers by stipulating that the resident US representative should approve the federal budget submission , all plans for borrowing and requests for grants-in-aid , and all contracts for capital improvement projects . |
| 21 | As party spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs he recently showed his political maturity by asserting that the Lloyd 's crisis ‘ gave anxiety for the national interest ’ — a view not shared by many of his colleagues . |
| 22 | explained the discrepancy between their finding and Cohen 's estimate of a longer lasting icon in the left visual field by arguing that the masking paradigm employed by Cohen does not allow measurement of icon persistence independently from encoding rate . |
| 23 | One such conception is behaviourism , which provides a conceptual link between behaviour and mental states by saying that the mental state of my being in pain in my knee just is the behavioural state of my wincing and holding my knee , taking greater care of it and so on . |
| 24 | Ford summarized his section on in-house use by observing that the ratio of books consulted in-house to books borrowed has been reported as a range from 0.4:1 to 11.2:1 . |
| 25 | On the other hand it is equally important not to minimize the effects of sentencing practice on penal policy by assuming that the courts are at the mercy of pressures over which they have no control , and to which they can only passively respond . |
| 26 | The men and women I met often spoke of regret and loss — not a nostalgia for the past , those glazed memories that falsify the hard history of the working people by claiming that the past was better . |
| 27 | Although Unger argues against biological explanations of homosexuality , she collapses non-heterosexual identities into a single , deviant , implicitly biological category by claiming that the ‘ examination of homosexuals and transsexuals and the like … can tell us much about how gender identity usually develops ’ ( 1979 : 139 ) . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Copeland ( Dr. Cunningham ) made a shaky start by saying that the first of those days , during the debate on the Gracious Speech , was before the Bill was published . |
| 29 | The conceptual basis of judicial review , that the courts are thereby enforcing the legislative will by ensuring that the authority remains within the limits of its assigned area , has never provided any sure guide as to the appropriate scope for review . |
| 30 | Bismarck hoped this would enable him to avoid an Austro-Russian quarrel by showing that the implicit assignment of Bulgaria to a Russian sphere of influence still held good . |