Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One response to this has been to challenge the position of the majority in the province by suggesting that it is not the population of the province who should decide the issues at stake but the population of the whole of Ireland . |
| 2 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 3 | The procedure continues for weeks with the man unable to tell the girl that he still buys the ticket even though he no longer has a car , and the girl not wanting to hurt his feelings by revealing that she is just taking a short cut , walking through the car park on her way to W. H. Smith . |
| 4 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 5 | concerts and things , but you can , you can tell , with just , just by listening that it 's not just any old body tinkling on the piano , it 's wonderful , it makes you sick . |
| 6 | It might look at the purpose of the rule , and imply a term which , though not amending the rule , supplemented it sufficiently to change its emphasis — perhaps by holding that it was not meant to apply after the introduction of the cash-settled contracts . |
| 7 | Finally , it is perhaps worth concluding this section by emphasizing that there is still much controversy among the scientific community about the magnitude of many of the effects being discussed . |
| 8 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 9 | The scope of the present debate will now be expanded by examining whether there are more substantial grounds than those so far considered for regarding companies as ‘ private ’ bodies . |
| 10 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 11 | Her mother answered her , using a phrase that so many people unthinkingly use , by saying that they were not going to have another baby because ‘ After all , it nearly killed me having you . ’ |
| 12 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 13 | Now , having started in that light , I may be going to disappoint you by saying that I 'm not in fact going to spend the next erm fifty minutes or so talking about the moral , political , philosophical implications of Darwinism . |
| 14 | I think I 'd start off by saying that it 's probably and likely to f that you could find in the Greater York area , between six and ten miles from the city centre , erm one location which met every one of the twelve criteria , one hundred percent . |
| 15 | Now it is of course always possible to substitute ( x ) Fx for ( Ex ) Fx , replacing the existential quantifier , that is , with a universal quantifier plus negation , but there is nothing much to be gained by such a swap , for to paraphrase the proposition that something is human by saying that it is not the case that everything is non-human is merely to beg the question . |
| 16 | I would defend the system by saying that it is not inadequate in that it certainly guarantees quality and safety in this country , but it leaves much to be desired in that it is diverse and scattered throughout hundreds of different local authorities . |
| 17 | When the Frenchman , Charles Bonnet , was confronted with the argument that if preformation were true the first rabbit would have had to contain 10 10000 preformed embryos , he merely responded by saying that it was always possible , by adding zeros , to crush the imagination under the weight of numbers . |
| 18 | In an unsigned editorial it tried to explain it by saying that there were too many explicit photographs of homosexual acts in the book ( Mapplethorpe takes pictures of oral sex , of a man pissing in the mouth of his partner and of men buggering each other in various ways , including with a fist ) , and that the authors had therefore not left enough space for his more restful images , such as his ‘ superb studies of people and flowers ’ , which the author of the editorial obviously sees as representing Mapplethorpe 's angelic side . |
| 19 | She justifies her response by saying that she is merely ‘ … trying to protect him from the rest of the class ; you know , children ( my emphasis ) can be so cruel ’ . |
| 20 | He finished his letter by saying that she was still close to him and that he wanked about her a lot . |
| 21 | Company car drivers used to beg off being given a diesel by protesting that it was just too sluggish for business use . |
| 22 | The closure error is usually treated by assuming that it is equally distributed over the polygon nodes whilst ensuring that neighbouring polygons are also corrected for any changes in point location . |
| 23 | " We 'll start by assuming that it was n't a bluff , that the murderer , or his accomplice , made the call to delay Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival and the discovery of the body . |
| 24 | He comforted himself by assuming that she was just a mother-figure to the young man and there could n't possibly be any sex in it . |
| 25 | Freud begins Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego by showing that there is almost no difference between individual psychology and social or group psychology : |
| 26 | Without a recognition of the common disadvantage experienced by women and older people , there is always a danger that proposals to eliminate sexism in certain aspects of social policy may unwittingly condone ageism by arguing that there is actually a conflict of interest between women ( as carers ) and older people ( see , for example , Finch , 1984 ) . |
| 27 | As for BAT , one contributor responded by arguing that it was simply a device established by the government to deflect community criticism . |
| 28 | Improve your mood and counteract stress : Ask anyone who exercises regularly and they will tell you that they always feel exhilarated at the end of a session — even if they had begun by feeling that they were not in the mood for exercise and had almost forced themselves to continue . |
| 29 | Under Common Law everyone is bound by duty to care for others by ensuring that they are not endangering them in any way . |
| 30 | In the case of a company you can alter its residence status simply by ensuring that it is now centrally managed and controlled outside the UK . |