Example sentences of "that by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Social services would n't dream of institutionalising a child at six , yet in this country parents do just that by sending many boys of that age to prep school . ’ |
| 2 | Conservative leaders claimed that by curbing the growth in public spending they would create the headroom for tax reductions which in turn would provide incentives and liberate the entrepreneurial energies of the British people . |
| 3 | It seemed that by donning the white kandora , they were declaring allegiance to the country of their patron Sheikhs . |
| 4 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 5 | The first is that by positioning himself conspicuously behind a veil , the Resident could leave the population in a state of desirable uncertainty about the degree of influence he actually exercised over their emir : his advice was not seen to be taken , but neither was it seen to be rejected . |
| 6 | We hope that by including a variety of cases we can inspire individuals and groups all over the country to take up arms on behalf of a threatened building in their neighbourhood . |
| 7 | St Paul was emphatic that by receiving the broken bread and poured out wine , the believer is participating in the self-offering of the Son to the Father in his broken body and shed blood . |
| 8 | We hope that as your Medau News — with its views , information and diary of events — comes through your letter box this September , you will agree that by receiving it by direct mail is a better system than sharing a few copies round from class member to class member . |
| 9 | Smith , who summed up the philosophy as one of ‘ Discipline and Religion ’ , hoped that by emphasizing masculinity and the becoming of ‘ Christian men ’ , the boys would come to see the ‘ manliness of Christianity ’ and that this would counter their tendency to regard it as ‘ effeminate and weak ’ , an idea which seemed to be too popular . |
| 10 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |
| 11 | Braque sensed , too , that by dismissing the conventional , single viewpoint perspective it was possible to synthesize into the depiction of the head a variety of information ; thus in a three-quarter view the knot of hair at the back of the head is seen clearly , as if from the side . |
| 12 | They seemed to think that by propitiating Celia They might insure themselves against further misfortune . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In company law it can equally be argued that by casting trustee-like duties on directors so that they are required to act only in the interests of the shareholders the law aims to ensure that the will of the shareholders is implemented . |
| 15 | He argues that by maintaining the job environment at an acceptable level then feelings of dissatisfaction can be avoided . |
| 16 | Ca n't you that by retaliating yo |
| 17 | Thus emphasis on reminiscence sensitively developed ( Coleman , 1986 ) and oral history are all part of a recognition that by listening to the memories and past experience of an elderly person we are validating the unique worth of that individual , the contribution made to society . |
| 18 | She could control that by reminding herself of the terrible consequences it had led to the first time . |
| 19 | Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant . |
| 20 | Some people find that by thinking about head noises they become worse ; by consciously giving them attention they are less easily forgotten . |
| 21 | I have often suspected that by raking through the telephone directory according to a number code , you could extract a secret message . |
| 22 | Khrushchev initially claimed ( in a report to the Supreme Soviet on 12 December 1962 ) that by installing the missiles in Cuba he acted in response to a Cuban request ; this has been contradicted not only by statements from Castro , but also by Khrushchev himself . |
| 23 | Now they 've even topped that by installing special censors inside lavatory bowls which detect whether the user has flushed the loo . |
| 24 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 25 | But it could also be inferred that by throwing the competition open to the architects of all nations , the sponsors were thinking in terms of a classical solution . |
| 26 | I pointed out that by slackening our programme efforts we would simply court mediocrity . |
| 27 | One possibility is that the DGSE somehow hoped that by buying the dinghy in London blame for the operation would be placed on MI6 , although in this case it would have made more sense to buy one made in Britain . |
| 28 | His daughter-in-law Nancy Astor later wore it in her tiara , a piquant commentary on those who imagined that by overthrowing the ancient regime they were promoting equality . |
| 29 | Peugeot and Citroen countered that by providing diesel models decked out with all mod cons . |
| 30 | It is also likely that by providing minimum standards of living , social services reduce public apathy and dejection and thus maintain the will to work . |