Example sentences of "by that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once you 've taken the drug , your next decision could be influenced by that drug . |
| 2 | He rarely seizes the imagination by exhibiting the higher excellencies , nor does he captivate us by that originality which attends the Painter who thinks for himself . |
| 3 | But perhaps it is the paradox conveyed by that closing glimpse of a parodic but unprecedented Eliot which carries the sharpest conviction of any feature of the book . |
| 4 | The lyricism that sells out to a state-ordained reality and solidarity is not the only lyricism we know , and it is the opposite of much of what we know by that name . |
| 5 | ‘ Beyond this ’ , however , leaves indefinite the point at which , or frequency with which , the use of biography deserves to be called by that name . |
| 6 | Do n't be daunted by that , but recognise that like everything else in the acting business , it is highly competitive . |
| 7 | It is also important to note that they saw the taking of law into their own hands as temporary , and pending the recognition by that state of its mistaken attitude towards them and their right to a degree of autonomy . |
| 8 | The alliance is cemented by that traditional political religion , forged in the previous century , which sees the natural law as most accessible to true believers , that it is obligatory to enforce its practice by law , and that those holding other views only have rights to put their views into practice when they are not seen by the bishops to do harm to the social fabric . |
| 9 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 10 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 11 | What do I mean by that ? he wrote . |
| 12 | If I am to live by that , he wrote , then this represents all I am capable of . |
| 13 | ‘ What do you mean by that ? ’ |
| 14 | To reinforce a belief in their own omnipotence and popularity , the police have made increasing use of market research to show they are well liked ; especially by that important category ‘ the silent majority ’ . |
| 15 | By that time , of course , the element of surprise is lost and his guard is ready and waiting . |
| 16 | The BeSHT — ben Eliezer is known by that acronym — produced a shock-wave of such proportions in Judaism that it has still not recovered from him . |
| 17 | It was a brief kiss but Rita no longer felt aggrieved by that . |
| 18 | ‘ Ah , ’ Harriet drinks delicately , the moon blanches her hair even paler , even whiter , ‘ what d' you mean by that ? ’ |
| 19 | By that time I was hopelessly lost and hopelessly bored . |
| 20 | The whole cone and the pellet , fertilised by that raunchy green devil of a male , are still the preferred versions at home . |
| 21 | There must be many who are touched to the heart by that phrase ‘ earthly father ’ and yet who do n't believe a word of the novel 's religion ; just as , and more obviously , Raskolnikov 's kissing the dirt in the middle of the Haymarket does n't stand or fall by Dostoevsky 's Soil Philosophy . |
| 22 | They are n't worthy of the silent spiritual gesture made by that italicized ‘ just so' . |
| 23 | Not that Hewlett was a representative figure , if by that we mean a sort of undistinguished average . |
| 24 | But both were themselves poets , and by that token were concerned more urgently than other commentators , even Edmund Wilson . |
| 25 | ‘ Since Mrs Thatcher came to power , the current weekly loss for a married couple by that callous act is £17.50 a week . ’ |
| 26 | Speelman had to give up his queen to avoid being mated , but by that time he had so many pieces for it that he was still able to draw comfortably . |
| 27 | Airdrie , managed by that most travelled of forwards , Jimmy Bone , showed far too much physical prowess for MacLeod 's men at Somerset Park , and a 3-1 win maintains the Broomfield challenge at the head of the division . |
| 28 | By that time the Everyman 's new artistic director , John Doyle , and his permanent company will have worked their way through an ambitious and unusually schematic programme culminating in two works of twentieth-century apocalypse : a Solzhenitsyn piece from the Gulag , and the Chernobyl play Sarcophagus . |
| 29 | Maybe , however , someone 's memory will have been nudged by that photo flashed on television screens six weeks ago . |
| 30 | The Dearing Report has become bogged down by that oldest of problems — money . |