Example sentences of "[pron] by [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And , after having raised the subject , he was now trying to shift the emphasis away from himself by suggesting that Merrill had behaved in an unnecessarily mysterious fashion . |
| 3 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 4 | However , even on the view that the plaintiff must be the target , no malice or spite is required : apart from the protection of the trade disputes legislation the tort would be committed by a trade union officer calling his members out on strike and he can not defend himself by arguing that his purpose was the increase of his members ' wages : unlike the tort of conspiracy , no predominant purpose to injure the plaintiff is required . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jenkins admitted to ignorance , but covered himself by saying that the selectors did not know the team either . |
| 7 | He excused himself by saying that his remarks had been made spontaneously . |
| 8 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 9 | I may unnerve you by saying that many of us err in this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The curriculum justifies itself by saying that unless teachers deliberately introduce the subject of homosexuality to the classroom it would be unlikely ever to arise among the children themselves . |
| 12 | As it stands , this maximin problem is not an LP but it can be made into one by observing that it is equivalent to maximising subject to min and the constraints . |
| 13 | We can reduce the problem to a one-dimensional one by claiming that the plates are infinitely large . |
| 14 | She knew she was violating Wakelate 's code of practice in the worst possible way , but absolved herself by remembering that her need was great . |
| 15 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 16 | I will further provoke him by saying that anchor-man is a most fitting name for his role in the relay team . |
| 17 | The trouble is that there are so many ways of continuing , so many alternatives and possibilities , that it would be wrong to advise him by saying that one procedure is better than another . |
| 18 | A visiting seyh , seeing his sad plight , comforted him by saying that he would achieve high rank and that his brothers would stand in his presence among the servants and slaves . |
| 19 | I once shocked him by admitting that I sometimes took it in my tea . |
| 20 | I think the Danuese battalions were the idea of someone high up at home and they did n't wish to offend him by indicating that his brainchild was , as Mr Burnett would have said , a white elephant . |
| 21 | This was an insensitive remark , and Ayling shamed her by suggesting that the things one ought to be able to do were often impossible . |
| 22 | Rob teases her by saying that she 'd rather go round a supermarket than climb a mountain , but there 's ‘ many a true word … ’ and all that . |
| 23 | The court astonished everybody by deciding that it could not rule on the legality or otherwise of something that had not happened yet . |
| 24 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |
| 25 | Although it was difficult , in practice , to stop war from breaking out , serious attempts were made to control it by emphasising that only a war duly and properly declared by a soverign authority could be regarded as just . |
| 26 | It is difficult to understand why the judges selected his design for second prize , as the assessors had rejected it by saying that it was ‘ Too expensive and involving too great a sacrifice of property ’ , and were supported by Brunel and Burn . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In his address opening the Council he expressed it by saying that the Council would be ‘ pastoral ’ rather than dogmatic , and talking about aggiornamento and rinnovimento — terms that harked back to his youth when both were slightly suspect . |
| 29 | If he gets the benefit for which he stipulated , he ought to honour his promise , and he ought not to avoid it by saying that the mother was herself under a duty to maintain the child . |
| 30 | This huge increase caused concern among many deputies , but Pavlov had justified it by saying that it took account of forthcoming wholesale price rises and would actually represent a fall in real terms . |