Example sentences of "but by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | This was not by drama , but by being around , and by being himself , and by an infectious enthusiasm . |
| 3 | You may feel inadequate at this point , because whatever you do for her will not seem to lift the cloud of her despair , but by being willing simply to be there and available in the background , accepting uncritically her inevitable mood-swings , and allowing her to talk , weep , or remain silent just as she wishes , you will be proving your concern for her ; and loving concern and the right to grieve in their own way is what the bereaved need most of all . |
| 4 | It was nearing the ninth hour , and Jesus , who had resisted sin throughout his life , now , because of his obedience , became sin itself — not by wilful act but by being made the crucible of the whole sum of human evil . |
| 5 | Althusser thus suggests that history can only be thought through as a permanent contradiction : it is a totality , but that totality is a decentred structure in dominance in which each history 's history is defined not through its identity with , or difference from , a general history but by being differentiated from every other history , on which it is necessarily also therefore dependent , in a kind of negative totalization . |
| 6 | The history of madness would be the history of the Other — of that which , for a given culture , is at once interior and foreign , therefore to be excluded ( so as to exorcise the interior danger ) but by being shut away ( in order to reduce its otherness ) ; whereas the history of the order imposed on things would be the history of the Same — of that which , for a given culture , is both dispersed and related , therefore to be distinguished by kinds and to be collected together into identities . |
| 7 | But by being ashamed of who they are , they 're making it harder for other people to accept them . ’ |