Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [is] by " in BNC.

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1 — Dashing half the blood of sacrifice ( verse 6 ) against the altar signifies that it is by means of shed blood that the people can come into the presence of God .
2 He concludes that it is by faith .
3 It must , however , be said that it is by no means crystal clear that this forms the mental element of the ‘ species ’ torts of unlawful interference with contract and unlawful means conspiracy ( indeed , in the case of the latter it very probably does not ) and it is not easy to see how the species can differ in this respect from the genus .
4 In this case I believe that it is by far preferable to accept the lack of consistency which we all know exists in papers marked by people , rather than suffer the strangling constraints on what and how we teach forced upon us when papers are marked by machine .
5 He goes on to quote Marx 's comment that the materialist doctrine that men are the product of circumstances and upbringing forgets that it is by men that circumstances are changed .
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