Example sentences of "by [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously Labour 's leaders had qualified their rejection of a Popular Front by hinting that they might consider if there was evidence of a serious backbench Tory revolt . |
| 2 | Obviously , the volume of data by making notes and by taperecording that I acquired made it sensible for me to concentrate on the one school rather than the other . |
| 3 | The judgment followed a decision by the Supreme Court in May 1989 [ see pp. 36650-51 ] , to return the case for reconsideration by a lower court , after ruling that an employer accused of discriminatory promotion practice could escape liability only by proving that there were other , legitimate , reasons for denying promotion . |
| 4 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 5 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 6 | But now BR chefs are winning friends in Europe by proving that our cuisine does travel well . |
| 7 | But my argument has been that it is not difficult to defend something roughly resembling the status quo rather than being bludgeoned into a guilty conscience by accepting that one is a covert elitist or racist . |
| 8 | This can only be rationalised by accepting that whatever form ‘ gods ’ may take , whether they be solid images or heartfelt beliefs in the mysticism of such figures as the Virgin Mary , there can be no gainsaying that they are all , without exception , the product of the human endeavour to satisfy this deeply felt need to place its hard-won ideals into secure keeping . |
| 9 | It is nigh on impossible to get the mirror and glass completely clean , so you will have to make a slight compromise by accepting that there will always be a certain amount of dust caught between the two layers of glass , due to static electricity . |
| 10 | By accepting that there is a market and career structure for the Administrative Assistant as well as the Shorthand Secretary , it is possible to treat Shorthand as an optional subject rather than as a major core element . |
| 11 | It is only by experimenting that we can learn new and interesting textures . |
| 12 | The headline neatly shifted the danger to being involved with the protest group and implicitly reversing the message of the Greenham woman by suggesting that their activities produce a ‘ ride to death ’ . |
| 13 | At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases . |
| 14 | Burns and Stalker ( 1961 ) offer us a more sophisticated version of this approach by suggesting that we also need to take into account the context within which different types of organisations operate . |
| 15 | Encourage them to express these feelings by suggesting that they state what exactly is worrying them . |
| 16 | You can often get them back on track by suggesting that they take turns at riding the tricycle or that they make the Lego building a joint effort . |
| 17 | Thus in R v Stanley ( 1965 ) , Lord Chief Justice Parker explained the meaning of the terms ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ by suggesting that they both convey the same idea , ‘ namely , offending against recognised standards of propriety , indecent being at the lower end of the scale and obscene at the upper end ’ . |
| 18 | In the next example , the teacher could have developed this child 's thinking by suggesting that they should find out if the boat would still float when carrying a smaller stone or if a larger boat could carry the stone they had . |
| 19 | He sought to save the lives of More and Fisher by suggesting that they be required to subscribe only to an oath to respect the succession , and not to repudiate the authority of Rome . |
| 20 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 21 | He accepts the evidence that there has been a drying-out in the continental interiors affecting both the United States and the Soviet Union and then qualifies his acceptance by suggesting that it will be remedied in the next century by greater precipitation . |
| 22 | One response to this has been to challenge the position of the majority in the province by suggesting that it is not the population of the province who should decide the issues at stake but the population of the whole of Ireland . |
| 23 | Its sponsor hints at an apology for the mayhem by suggesting that it 's a glitch , a temporary snag to be overcome . |
| 24 | Dame Sybil earned her everlasting gratitude by suggesting that it was time she retire . |
| 25 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 26 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 27 | We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress . |
| 28 | This belief , expressed in the legal doctrine of novus actus interruptus , is that a person is responsible for his own actions , and others are not responsible even if they induced his action by suggesting that there are reasons for it , or by behaving in ways which led him to form such a belief . |
| 29 | Tolstoy 's attempt to explain why the British did not see the massacre , by suggesting that there was a hill in the way , is therefore superfluous . |
| 30 | The prosecution must prove beyond all reasonable doubt that she did not consent and the defence will be irresistibly tempted to raise that doubt by suggesting that she is the type of woman who might well have done . |