Example sentences of "[vb past] that by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson , never under an obligation to generate social ease , dismissed that by saying ‘ The intimacy is such as one of the professors here may have with one of the carpenters who is repairing the college , ’ Johnson 's point being that the printer , having printed some of Warburton 's works , might perhaps have bought the copyright in one or two of them . |
| 2 | Charlie Malone , a shop steward and one of the sacked workers , promised that by the end of the campaign there would be 300 fewer people on the dole . |
| 3 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 4 | Although it had been common for surgeons to expect suppuration of the wound as an inevitable concomitant of amputation , Alanson demonstrated that by these methods it was possible for these wounds to heal ‘ by the first intention ’ , that is , without significant infection . |
| 5 | He maintained that by its very nature , capitalism involves the exploitation and oppression of the worker . |
| 6 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 7 | The report found that by the end of April this year , ADAS had not agreed a corporate plan with the Ministry of Agriculture covering both the service 's commercial and public good work . |
| 8 | He found that by staring , and then blinking , he could ‘ photograph ’ objects . |
| 9 | ( 1984 ) found that by the end of therapy about half of couples showed significant improvement and approximately one-third of couples appeared to be non-distressed . |
| 10 | Wrangham found that by following chimpanzees daily , he could establish the ranging relationships of the animals . |
| 11 | John Evans ( 1990 ) in some research on Australian play times found that by far the greatest percentage of interactions recorded invoked the teacher in an authoritarian role , issuing requests and orders to children . |
| 12 | She found that by giving a little leap she could stride across almost like a grown-up . |
| 13 | ‘ We started from the point of making the mass as low as possible , ’ Wortmann says , ‘ We found that by avoiding the turbulence of two rotors , we were able to achieve a rotor speed of 450 kilometres per hour at the tip — the fastest in the world . ’ |
| 14 | Kodak found that by flattening the grain into tabular or T-shape , the same amount of silver intercepts more light . |
| 15 | He found that by giving the salt in low potency there was often an improvement in the patient 's well-being . |
| 16 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |
| 17 | I found that by 1979 there was now no longer a smooth transition into work ( see For Richer , For Poorer , Wallace , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | I found that by adding white I could achieve my desired effect . |
| 19 | If the colour dries on the paper but does not look right , I found that by carefully washing over with water and then gently lifting out as before , unwanted passages can be partially or completely taken off . |
| 20 | The Council of Europe stayed its hand , and the Seventh Session of the Conference found that by making two small amendments to the service provisions of the 1905 text ( the definition of ‘ autorité compétente ’ in Article 2 , so as to include solicitors ; an addition to Article 3 providing for the supply of two copies of the document to be served ) the Hague text could be made entirely acceptable to the British Government . |
| 21 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 22 | Also , he found that by glancing occasionally at William 's medieval illustrations he was able to prolong the actual phallic performance to well over half an hour , a personal best , even deducting the time taken to eat the cakes . |
| 23 | I found that by grafting their Cartesian clarity on to our language I 've produced a different fruit altogether . ’ |
| 24 | The windows up here were waist-high , but very deep , and she found that by lifting herself up into the actual narrow embrasure , and leaning precariously forward , she could get a limited view of the clearing below . |
| 25 | They found that by introducing a normal gene to substitute the defective one , the mice recovered from the illness . |
| 26 | ( later ) taught an excellent course on the mathematical and logical basis of linguistics — and I found that by far the most useful of my MIT courses . |
| 27 | The British Weekly reported that by 1899 , 460 out of 646 Poor Law Unions had Nonconformist chaplains . |
| 28 | Frelimo 's Central Committee reported that by 1989 , 45 per cent of all primary schools had either been closed or wrecked . |
| 29 | When , in 1929 , the Swiss amateur physiologist Hans Berger reported that by taping a set of recording electrodes to the human scalp he could record continuous bursts of electricity pulsing through the brain , he was at first not taken seriously . |
| 30 | And in that moment I realized that by some deep-rooted instinct I was already doing the right thing . |