Example sentences of "by saying [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 2 | The company explains this by saying that a co-operative-server database hides the complexity of a computer network by enabling applications to access data located on multiple computers as if all the data were stored on a single computer , thus simplifying application building and — it is hoped — improving decisions by making access to information easier . |
| 3 | For instance , in the law of contract the question , ‘ What is the difference between void and voidable contracts ? ’ can be accurately answered by saying that a void contract is an apparent contract that is in truth no contract at all , while a voidable contract is a contract that is capable of being avoided at the option of one party . |
| 4 | As I expected , the hon. Gentleman responded to the last intervention by saying that a Labour Government would simply reintroduce rates . |
| 5 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 6 | Can I close by saying that every time Christians share the Lord 's supper they are publicly declaring their needs to be fed with the living bread and wine . |
| 7 | He ended by saying that the prospect of a Labour government was a beacon of hope for millions of striving and oppressed people throughout the world . |
| 8 | ROBERT ARMSTRONG , the senior counsel at the Canadian Federal Inquiry into drug abuse in sport , wound up its hearings in Toronto by saying that the International Amateur Athletic Federation had failed to tackle the problem of drugs in athletics . |
| 9 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 10 | Mr Sherwood reacted by saying that the new terms from Temple had once again delayed SeaCo 's intention to set a date for the shareholder meeting . |
| 11 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 12 | He explained this extraordinary assertion to his family by saying that the aristocratic rule of primogeniture was the same as that by which Jesus Christ had inherited the kingdom of heaven ( at which his daughter , Nancy , remarked , ‘ Oh , I thought you meant it would be a blow at the faith because the Lord 's son would lose the right to choose the clergyman . ’ ) . |
| 13 | He mitigated the problem by saying that the Son 's generation by the Father is no event in time but is eternal . |
| 14 | At the Northampton Forest Eyre of 1255 John Lovet , a verderer , had to pay the substantial fine of twelve marks ‘ for mendacity and concealment ’ : he had contradicted his roll by saying that the deer which had been taken in the forest by the men of the parson of Eaton Maudit ‘ was a certain sheep ’ . |
| 15 | He ended by saying that the lights would not go out until they had achieved civil rights and a thirty-two-county republic . |
| 16 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 17 | By saying that the account explains considered judgements we mean the following . |
| 18 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 19 | She sums up the situation by saying that the reconstituted family is never the same as the biological family . |
| 20 | This could be explained by saying that the lords had insisted that the children of the bond remained bondmen , thus exacting their full rights . |
| 21 | Nothing forbids me to dramatize the crisis by saying that the individual has found a new sense of his dignity in the knowledge that he is wholly free to choose , with the sole responsibility for his choice . |
| 22 | The article began : ‘ A Report telling schools to ignore English teaching in favour of trendy methods has infuriated Mrs Thatcher ’ , and continued by saying that the lengthy report ‘ dismisses grammar in a few paragraphs ’ . |
| 23 | They 'll justify their behaviour by saying that the interviewee needs to perform well under pressure to do the job ( odd that most of Sir Robin 's victims were politicians , though … |
| 24 | Mark ends the story by saying that the disciples had not understood this : |
| 25 | Analogical inheritance extends the notion of inheritance by saying that the attributes of a node should be related to the attributes of its parent in some systematic way . |
| 26 | In a paper in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy I defended the view he rejected by saying that the ‘ nature ’ of the ‘ sensations as they are in their own nature ’ is the nature we apprehend them as having when a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally , and that the reason why a certain way of describing them comes to us naturally need not be a reason of which we are conscious . |
| 27 | This is sometimes described by saying that the church has at last entered a ‘ post-Constantinian era ’ , an era in which the synthesis of Christianity and western culture and society ushered in by Constantine , the first Christian Emperor of Rome , has finally dissolved , and the church once more represents a social minority in an increasingly pluralistic age . |
| 28 | In the decision letter , the Secretary of State endorsed this by saying that the Department of Transport must re-design the offending section of road to enable flying to continue . |
| 29 | There is a temptation to construe this by saying that the subject therefore has the concept of a mother , hamburger , or whatever . |
| 30 | Here the position may be summed up by saying that the control task may recently have been added to the conceptive ideological and translating practices , but it is these latter which constitute the lawyer 's work , and in terms of which his job should be sociologically defined . |