Example sentences of "[to-vb] [that] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court refused to accept that by petitioning for divorce she had revoked her consent . |
| 2 | For the purposes of the present work , it is sufficient to know that by the end of the seventh century a town inhabited mainly by people of Latin culture existed on the site , and that the surrounding countryside was peopled by Slavs . |
| 3 | It was strange now , walking through the same streets , to know that by then it had already happened . |
| 4 | Arthur Mailey , whose skill and amiable manner attracted F–S to cricket , was later to write that by F–S 's standards , other spin bowlers were merely allowing the ball to ‘ slip from their fingers ’ . |
| 5 | But I do not accept the submission of Mr. Everall ’ — who appeared for the father — ‘ that she should go so far as to establish that by their return they would be exposed to a grave risk of harm to bring them within the ambit of article 13 ( b ) . |
| 6 | The reasonable interpretation of their experience seems to demand that by the time the chain had reached them the actual result of the observation had become fixed . |
| 7 | Suppose now , however , that B , having accepted S 's repudiation in June , sees the market beginning to rise rapidly in July and , in an attempt to minimise his loss before the market rises further , buys replacement goods on July 15 at £115 per ton — ; only to discover that by the delivery date under the original contract ( December 1 ) the market price has fallen back to £110 per ton . |
| 8 | The ‘ Pater Nostra ’ organisation , which will care for physically and mentally handicapped people in Atea , expect to find that by owning their own tractor they will not only go a long way to becoming self-sufficient but will be able to hire out the tractor locally to enhance their income . |
| 9 | He would not be surprised to find that by using his intelligence he could add one or two significant improvements to this design . |
| 10 | One does not have to be a Marxist to observe that by comparison something seems to have gone badly wrong in the capitalist societies of the Western world over the last two decades . |
| 11 | And it is no good trying to combat that by making the microphone ( " ear " ) more sensitive , since this would only make it more vulnerable to being damaged by the , albeit now slightly quieter , outgoing sounds ! |
| 12 | Many , unable or unwilling to see that by the 1890s the emergence of the proletariat had redefined the terms of the class struggle , failed to cut themselves adrift from their bourgeois and petty-bourgeois roots . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the book 's last essay , titled Black Women and Feminism , takes to task those African-American feminists who are reluctant to acknowledge that by ignoring sexism in the Black community they have left unaddressed the abuse and subjugation of Black women by Black men . |
| 14 | It is one thing to claim that by sharing in a dramatic exploration of a theme I can learn something about myself in the process , and quite another to suggest the drama is for me and about me . |
| 15 | I want to answer that by looking at what I call ‘ The Proper Purgatory . ’ |
| 16 | The first declaration he gave to Pineau to take back to France would almost certainly have disappointed resisters : its denunciation of the Third Republic was a little too sweeping for Pineau 's taste ( one has to remember that by this stage the bitter experience of Vichyism and Nazism was beginning to rehabilitate the reputation of republicanism in France ) , and it had almost nothing to say about social or economic reform . |
| 17 | There is evidence to suggest that by the time of Euclid these observations were occurring in a cone of vision . |
| 18 | Moreover , there is evidence to suggest that by the seventeenth century both literacy and Bible reading were on the increase ; in the parish of Keevil in Wiltshire , for example , only 4 per cent of testators who died during the decades between 1590 and 1630 appear to have possessed a Bible , whereas during the course of the 1630s and 1640s the proportion rose to 18 per cent . |
| 19 | It is too simplistic to suggest that by offering improved opportunities in a less restrictive setting , individuals with often severe learning difficulties , frequently additional disabilities , and histories of damaging experiences , will thereby have access to improved , more satisfying life-styles . |
| 20 | There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that by taking away advertising you will , you will er , cut down smoking . |
| 21 | Returning to the jazz clubs was one option , but Rune had already made attempts to cover that by enlisting the aid of several barmen as well as his friends at Ib 's Bar . |
| 22 | It would also be wise to assume that by now the Russians know all about this technology and can , when necessary , not only match it but confuse it . |
| 23 | This substitute would most likely have been an animal , and it is reasonable to assume that by this time animals were , to some extent at least , tamed if not domesticated . |
| 24 | The tradition has however tended to assume that by adopting a particular perspective ( Marxism ) it can escape the ideological effect much in the same way as science appears at times to escape from ideology . |
| 25 | I also noticed a tendency to assume that by the twentieth century women had overcome most of the problems of inequality . |
| 26 | All we need do here is to remark that by 1914 it had carried the control of violence and unreason in national and international life further than ever before , and brought Europeans to a previously unmatched level of material and mental achievement . |
| 27 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 28 | If it had to finance that by raising its own taxes , Scotland might become a socialist state along Albanian lines with high taxes , centralised planning and everyone living in council houses and enjoying the beauties of the socialist system in its most untrammelled form . |
| 29 | However , I am pleased to recall that by the time dinner was served an hour or so later , nothing but efficiency and professional calm was exhibited on the part of my team . |
| 30 | But Parents for Safe Food are lending their support to the Soil Association 's efforts to ensure that by the year 2000 , 20% of our food will be organic . |