Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [that] [pron] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop finished by praying that what had been discussed would become an apostolic thrust of the diocese . |
| 2 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 3 | He had infuriated the government by calling publicly for the resignation of Foreign Minister Geza Jeszenszky , whom he described as incompetent , and by complaining that he had been forced to lie to US politicians about the sale of Hungarian weapons to Croatia . |
| 4 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 5 | Many people discount the value of statistical analysis by saying that what matters is quality , not quantity . |
| 6 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |
| 7 | It was certainly a more honest confession than George Bush ever managed , and by saying that he has been forced into this decision by an expanding deficit which has gone ‘ beyond even the worst official government estimates from last year ’ , he is also confronting Americans with some central truths about their economic situation . |
| 8 | Secondly , it distorts the history of philosophy by assuming that it has been unchanging in its preoccupations and conceptualisations , which it clearly has not . |
| 9 | When the British civil servant Sir Robert Armstrong struggled in the Spycatcher trial to deny that he had lied by claiming that he had been ‘ economical with the truth ’ he met with well-earned derision . |
| 10 | The indictment concluded by declaring that he had been found ‘ incorrigible without hope of amendment ’ . |