Example sentences of "[noun sg] is that by " in BNC.

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1 The best guess prediction is that by 2030 the concentration of greenhouse gases of all kinds will be equivalent to a doubling of carbon dioxide ( if CO 2 was the only gas , the doubling would not take place until 2080 ) .
2 However , one major weakness of the study is that by concentrating on advertising as the major culprit , it overlooks the structural changes which media necessarily go through — or do not go through — which themselves place them at risk .
3 Among the works referred to in this introduction , the other important historical study is that by Jane Lewis in The Politics of Mother-hood ( 1980 ) .
4 The fear is that by custom and tradition the Press will never leave the bar .
5 The counterpart is that by its nature it can not be shared with those who by disposition or location are incapable of being represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom .
6 My personal philosophy is that by backing them — although a number will fall — some will grow , develop , float and become world class . ’
7 Some basses are a little better than others , but the truth is that by turning up the line level you can make it sound like anything you want .
8 The point is that by its nature the British parliamentary monarchy exists only in Britain .
9 The central point is that by controlling the moving pictures of dissent , governments believe that they can not only minimize the dissent itself but also completely remove the major source of criticism .
10 The important point is that by Interpretation 2 we mean that , on the whole , the deltaic deposits shown in the centre of the diagram were laid down later than the fluviatile deposits but earlier than the offshore deposits .
11 The point is that by thinking of concepts as variables we also begin to think of suitable ways of reflecting their character by numbers .
12 The first , and rather obvious , point of criticism is that by concentrating on capital-labour relations and movements of capital these authors have largely neglected other kinds of relations ( such as those of gender and race ) which have dynamics which are relatively separate from those of class but which nevertheless combine with those of class in highly complex ways .
13 One measure of this demand is that by the 1950s direct expenditure on goods and services by government was on average just over 20 percent of GDP .
14 The central belief is that by being immersed in , and contributing to , the life of reason , one can attain a truer level of understanding and perspective on the world than is ordinarily available through personal experience .
15 Her argument is that by learning to overlook those parts of the world which are easily nameable we can revert to a mode of perception more favourable to successful drawing .
16 On the other hand , the assumption underlying this third argument is that by concentrating in so far as the court can , upon ‘ process ’ rather than the ‘ merits , ’ judicial review will be less controversial .
17 The argument against commodity bundling is that by offering a bundle of goods at a lower price than the sum of the prices for the components of the bundle the supplier is able to prevent competition from producers of individual goods within the bundle .
18 An additional factor in considering the question of definition is that by far the majority of non-traditional entrants are also mature entrants .
19 Despite his magnetic personality and his enormous popularity the PNI was slow to win members : one calculation is that by September 1929 there were less than 6000 .
20 Their main significance is that by predicating the breach on damage to the interests of creditors and thus expanding the corporate constituency it no longer automatically follows that the breach should be ratifiable by the shareholders .
21 Another article to show much ingenuity in spotting small-scale correspondences and diagnosing their significance is that by John Irving , who aligns well chosen items of keyboard music ( and some consort music ) by Byrd and Tomkins to illustrate the extent to which the younger composer applied ( among other influences ) principles of ‘ creative reinterpretation ’ ( p157 ) of Byrd 's procedures in the development of his own personal style .
22 I was heartened to see that one of the slogans on London East TEC 's letterhead is : ’ Our vision is that by the year 2000 , the East side of London should be as prosperous as the West side ’ — that seems to be an excellent vision for London East TEC .
23 The third and most important reason is that by virtue of its ownership of an almost infinite variety of coasts , countryside , woods and waterways , gardens , historic houses and works of art , it can make a unique contribution to public and professional debate , and to environmental education .
24 One criticism of third normal form is that by making reference to other normal forms , hidden dependencies may not be revealed , BCNF does not make reference to other normal forms .
25 The only certainty is that by 1201 he was attached to the household of Hubert Walter at Canterbury , being credited at least once with the title of archbishop 's steward .
26 A major problem with traditional Marxist analysis is that by laying all sins at the door of capitalist development , it fails to explain what keeps the periphery in a long-term relationship with the centre , since there appears to be little in the relationship for either partner .
27 The only published study that can be directly compared with the Gardner report is that by Mc Laughlin et al on workers at nuclear facilities in Ontario ; they found no increased risk of leukaemia in the children of fathers working in these facilities .
28 The answer is that by ‘ action ’ the constructivist intends something much broader than ‘ motor behaviour ’ .
29 The answer is that by furthering the interests of the banks themselves , the Institute increases support for all its activities and thereby benefits individual members .
30 My hope is that by praying about such situations I am helping to keep God from being pushed out , forgotten or ignored .
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