Example sentences of "[noun sg] by virtue of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury deliberated for 10 days before acquitting Fama of firing the fatal shot , but convicting him of second-degree murder by virtue of his participation in the attack ; he was also convicted of numerous lesser charges including those relating to the unlawful possession of weapons . |
| 2 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 3 | The period began with town planning elevated in the public mind by virtue of the favourable reception accorded to the various plans for city reconstruction drawn up during the war years and immediately afterwards . |
| 4 | He asks , ‘ Has our civilisation by virtue of the inhumanity it has carried out and condoned … forfeited its claims to that indispensable luxury which we call literature ? ’ ( pp. 72–73 ) . |
| 5 | ( 3 ) When granting a licence , a licensing board may attach to the licence any condition set out in a byelaw by virtue of paragraph ( 1 ) of subsection ( 1 ) above . |
| 6 | Insofar as it has force by virtue of the potential penalty in expenses , it follows that the earlier in the action the Tender is lodged , the greater the effect which it may have . |
| 7 | This classical law of contract , as it is often called , represents one of the acmes of legal formalist scholarship by virtue of its clear rules and their clusters of logical derivatives . |
| 8 | A person who throws a missile at a football match can clearly be guilty of violent disorder ( provided always that there are three or more present using or threatening violence ) , since his conduct can be regarded as violence by virtue of the extended definition of ‘ violence ’ in the Act . |
| 9 | Agfa , Kodak and Fuji produce ranges of colour slide and print films ranging from ISO 25 to 1000 , with an HR suffix indicating the films ' high resolution capability by virtue of the very thin emulsions used in the colour separation layers . |
| 10 | This is in miniature the classic blueprint detective story , and it can give more pleasure by virtue of its clues coming closer to the final revelation than sometimes the full-length affair does . |
| 11 | That left the companies ; yet the first of them was in the hands of the receiver , who could bring an action by virtue of the Insolvency Act 1986 ( section 42 and also para 5 of Schedule 1 ) . |
| 12 | It can be said Carl had developed a parochial outlook by virtue of his own mastery over all his school studies , the violin , and his trade . |
| 13 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
| 14 | It is true that , to the indignation of many working women , current British tax rules assume that , in an ordinary domestic family , the husband is the head of the household by virtue of his being the breadwinner and in control of the family finances . |
| 15 | Citizens have an obligation to obey law by virtue of the fact that it is made in accordance with established procedures . |
| 16 | The powers of the state must be exercised in accordance with the law by virtue of authority granted by the law . |
| 17 | On 6th December 1967 , the Forth Harbour Re-organisation Scheme became law by virtue of a Confirming Act passed on that day . |
| 18 | In my teens I had lived precariously on the lip of first class rugby by virtue of knowing every trick in the canon , evil and otherwise , by being a bad bad loser , but chiefly and perhaps only because I was very nippy off the mark . |
| 19 | What I am clear about is that Parliament has not conferred such autonomy on a 16- to 18-year-old child by virtue of section 8 of the Act of 1969 , and that the common law , as interpreted by the House of Lords in Gillick 's case does not do so either . |
| 20 | The same applies if a person having care of a child by virtue of an order made by the High Court in exercise of its inherent jurisdiction agrees to the provision of accommodation . |
| 21 | Some statutory instruments are exempt from this requirement by virtue of the Statutory Instruments Regulations 1947 . |
| 22 | If judgment is obtained in this country against someone in France ( or most other Community states ) , that judgment can be enforced in the country in question by virtue of the Brussels Convention ( on Jurisdiction and Enforcement of Judgments ) 1968 . |
| 23 | Some , including soff , tief , cruff are identifiable as of Creole origin by virtue of their pronunciation , ( and in the case of tief also by its use as a verb rather than a noun ) which distinguishes them from their Standard counterparts soft , thief , scruff(y) , which have no special meaning within youth culture . |
| 24 | It remains by far the most convincing performance committed to disc by virtue of its natural pacing and brazen flair , which serve to underline the experimental nature of much of the content . |
| 25 | Nicolson took second place by virtue of that second-round 69 . |
| 26 | In the first place by virtue of the ‘ goodness ’ of the evolutionary process , and in the second by virtue of man 's own efforts to contribute . |
| 27 | Included in episcopal temporalities were not only the advowsons which he possessed in his own right by virtue of the endowments of his bishopric but also those which it fell to him to exercise by default of the usual patron and the appointments to the cathedral chapter , two categories of patronage which he exercised by virtue of his spiritual authority over the diocese , not because of any land which he held . |
| 28 | The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts . |
| 29 | The difference is that a protected tenant has security by virtue of his contract with the landlord ; a statutory tenant has security by virtue of the protection given by the Rent Acts . |
| 30 | My young friend Ed Douglas is wrong in assuming that Victor Saunders is excluded from hero-candidacy by virtue of his Gordonstoun education , but right in suggesting its irrelevance ( April issue ) . |