Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] by [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 2 | Lack of consent must be proved by showing that the victim 's ‘ understanding and knowledge were such that she was not in a position to decide . ’ |
| 3 | What purpose might be served by announcing that you 're happy ? |
| 4 | The question might be answered by saying that the new phonemes are to be classed as vowels . |
| 5 | These objectives could be achieved by ensuring that no member of the family is ever capable of alienating the fee simple . |
| 6 | The sweeping aside of the ‘ primitive ’ inhabitants of these conquered territories could be justified by arguing that the process was necessary for progress . |
| 7 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 8 | This could be explained by saying that the lords had insisted that the children of the bond remained bondmen , thus exacting their full rights . |
| 9 | A southerly slope could be simulated by ensuring that 50% of the random numbers generated by the computer were interpreted as ‘ flow south ’ while 20% could be allocated both to ‘ flow east ’ and ‘ flow west ’ with the remaining 10% being ‘ flow north ’ . |
| 10 | Attempts to cheat the system , however , by discharging a patient briefly every three months could be thwarted by insisting that the period of discharge must last at least two weeks before the admission could be considered separate . |
| 11 | It does not follow that it is the duty of government to provide these services — the duty could be discharged by securing that they are available from other sources : this is what is implied by the distinction between the providing and enabling state . |
| 12 | This could be resolved by assuming that all citizens impliedly consent to those touchings which are incidental to ordinary everyday life and travel ; but the judicial preference seems to be to create an exception for ‘ all physical contact which is generally acceptable in the ordinary conduct of daily life ’ . |
| 13 | This could be resolved by requiring that the more certain method ( acceptance in writing ) apply to such a ‘ mixed ’ treaty , but this is not specified . |
| 14 | Much too may be achieved by ensuring that people are educated and trained to operate in an environmentally sensitive way . |
| 15 | Treatment with one of the benzimidazoles or levamisole is effective and the condition may be prevented by ensuring that birds do not run on the same ground each year . |
| 16 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |
| 17 | The high transverse velocities inferred for the three pulsars may be avoided by assuming that the pulsar and SNR are much older ( by 10 times ) than the characteristic spin-down time , so that the remnant is in the older radiative phase for which Shull et al. |
| 18 | It may be simplified by assuming that the share is held to infinity . |
| 19 | Epicurus did , indeed , place supreme value on ‘ pleasure ’ ; but he thought of this as the calm tranquillity and freedom from anxiety which would be achieved by realizing that there is no life after death , and that we are not subject to outside divine influences . |
| 20 | Greater control will be achieved by providing that the power is to be exercised by way of statutory instrument . |
| 21 | This will be on the ground that the breach of duty was not the legal cause of the damage and will be expressed by saying that the damage was too remote . |
| 22 | They propose that a bonus be paid which is based upon an approximation to the change in social welfare.4 Specifically , the " incentive component " of the managerial emolument package that they propose for period t is given by a function of the increase in profits and the decrease in price between period t-1 and period t : Such an area is represented in figure 4.5 by the shaded portion , as can be seen by noting that the first term represents the rectangle ABCD and the second , the area under the marginal cost curve unc between unc and unc ( i.e. the integral |
| 23 | Far better to make sure that the inferences are correct , and this can be done by ensuring that the observer and the observed are thinking together , not in opposition . |
| 24 | Perhaps it can be done by saying that there is a basic biological species-need for sexual reproduction which gives rise to inner impulses , felt periodically , for full genital contact and orgasm . |
| 25 | The first of these objections to the Baker — Hacker interpretation can be answered by saying that although the practice which constitutes knowing and following the rule for pain could be operated away from any community ( on a desert island ) if it could be set up , the problem is not in the operation but in the institution of the practice . |
| 26 | This can be achieved by ensuring that we fall within the exemption contained in Section 60(1) of the Companies Act , which states that an offer or invitation is not to be treated as made to the public ‘ if it can properly be regarded , in all the circumstances , as not being calculated to result , directly or indirectly , in the shares or debentures becoming available for subscription or purchase by persons other than those receiving the offer or invitation , or otherwise as being a domestic concern of the persons receiving and making it ’ . |
| 27 | That is , is obtained directly from equation ( 3.45a ) and can be obtained by noting that : |
| 28 | The force with which the judges made their case for Second Empire can be explained by assuming that they felt that if they did not strongly press for this form of building , another , and less welcome style in their eyes , would be adopted . |
| 29 | Their argument can be illustrated by assuming that in an STV constituency election the sole Green candidate is eliminated at the first count . |
| 30 | This can be understood by assuming that the neutrons do not mix uniformly with the protons but tend to form a skin on the surface of the nucleus . |