Example sentences of "by [being] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | So if you have got your way some of the time by being aggressive and forceful , when you try a more considerate approach you will feel insecure . |
| 32 | There are four related conceptual differences between epistemic and perspectival appearances : ( 1 ) Epistemic appearances are subjective , whereas perspectival appearances are objective ; ( 2 ) It makes no sense to say that X appears to be φ to Y but Y does not know it , whereas it does make sense to say that X presents such-and-such a perspectival appearance to the point of view Y occupies but Y does not know it ; ( 3 ) X can appear to be φ to Y only if Y possesses the concept φ : nothing similar can be said about perspectival appearances ; ( 4 ) Epistemic appearances are related to their objects by being true or false of them , whereas perspectival appearances are related to their objects mathematically . |
| 33 | Any response is complicated by the fact that calls on resources are different , by being long- or short-term and by being capital- or revenue-intensive . |
| 34 | We discussed in Report 11 the way this can be taken to excess by those teachers who couch the majority of their utterances in the form of questions , even when statements or instructions are more appropriate , and how such questioning can then become further debased by being low-level or closed . |
| 35 | Morbidly inward , unforgiving , Cave goes against the grain of the times by being sick but refusing to be healed and integrated . |
| 36 | He attacked the smug ‘ self glorification ’ of the official press , the ‘ pervasive bossiness ’ of the system , and said that social understanding was imperative ‘ through criticism and self-criticism — openly , not bleating , but by being hard and patient . ’ |
| 37 | Any response is complicated by the fact that calls on resources are different , by being long- or short-term and by being capital- or revenue-intensive . |