Example sentences of "that by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 2 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 3 | By mid-June , the projection of the opinion polls was already suggesting that the majority favouring a measure of divorce legislation was declining so rapidly that by the time of the poll , the noes would have it . |
| 4 | We have also followed his preparations for the world title bout with Karpov , some of us , it must be confessed , with a certain amount of incredulity , since , however much these world championship matches are now dependent on stamina rather than brilliance , it has struck more than a few people that a chess player is not a footballer , in particular a fifty-year-old self-exiled Russian Grandmaster is not a footballer , and that to think that by training like one he will become as fit is not only an illusion , it is a dangerous illusion . |
| 5 | I 'm pretty sure that by this stage I was suffering from what medical people mean when they talk about ‘ clinical depression ’ . |
| 6 | In an interview with Mark Paytress in 1988 Leonard stated that by the age of six he was already acquainted with rudimentary Judaism and recalled being deeply touched by the stirring language and imagery of the Bible - in English and Hebrew . |
| 7 | The answer is that by ‘ action ’ the constructivist intends something much broader than ‘ motor behaviour ’ . |
| 8 | Then I saw a friend using parallel rulers on a map , and I realised that by using a similar technique I could put all those 1/4in cutter into use . |
| 9 | This flat had to be sold by the council , and the ADC states that by allowing tenants to purchase such dwellings , the Government will ensure that over time younger households will buy up accommodation formerly occupied by older people ; |
| 10 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 11 | Fig. 1 illustrates that by linking such splines at a common point and opposite tangent directions , an indefinite length of smooth curve can be defined with relatively little data . |
| 12 | He further argues that Derrida 's fundamental claim that speech is really writing , and that writing is prior to speech , is based on a redefinition of terms , and that by such methods one could prove anything , that the rich are really poor , that the true is really false , and so on . |
| 13 | In 1986 , J. Hillis Miller , than whom no one is better placed to judge , told the Modern Language Association of America that by the mid-1980s critical theory had shifted from invoking ‘ language ’ as a prime foundational term to a cluster of words which included ‘ history ’ , ‘ politics ’ , ‘ society ’ , and ‘ culture ’ . |
| 14 | As a scholar and theorist , Hirsch is known , apart from his unfashionable but vigorously argued advocacy of intentionalism , for his conviction that literature is not a coherent concept , and has no definable essence , and that by extension ‘ English ’ as a discipline has no absolute method . |
| 15 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 16 | We can accept that by 1923 or 1924 the sacred places had been settled on , and there were quite enough of them . |
| 17 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 18 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 19 | The principle indicated in those cases was a long way from the circumstances of the present case and was far from warranting the conclusion that by making a photocopy of a document which in the hands of the maker of the photocopy was not privileged , and then sending the photocopy to a solicitor for the purposes of obtaining advice , privilege was thereby cast on the copy sent to the soicitor . |
| 20 | AMERICA ‘ Latest estimates show that by the year 2010 , the USA will be a Japanese-owned country speaking Spanish . |
| 21 | Mr Kinnock predicted that by 1992 and the advent of the single European market , the pound would be part of the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System . |
| 22 | Mr Palmer said that by any standards her killer 's behaviour was extraordinary . |
| 23 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 24 | They almost succeeded , so that by a combination of close range misses , poor handling and half-hearted rebounding they trailed 33-27 at the break . |
| 25 | Now it is clear that by extending one-member-one-vote to the choice of constituency delegates , Labour can safely inject democracy into the party conference without fearing nasty side-effects . |
| 26 | During a debate on the dispute at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday , Steve Gazzard , an ambulance worker , said that by allowing arbitration , ministers would then ‘ repay their debt ’ to ambulancemen called in after the bombing during the Tory party conference which was held in the town in 1984 . |
| 27 | Reminded that he would be going back as one of the 10 per cent , ‘ Jacki ’ let go one of the handsome smiles which have made him so popular , but he qualified that by underlining the discomfort he might feel in that situation . |
| 28 | This is the date that by law the government must review the budget process to determine whether enough progress has been made in reducing the deficit to avoid automatic spending cuts . |
| 29 | Simon Tyler , of Chase de Vere , says that by taking the 5 per cent deferment ‘ borrowers can take out a loan for £84,000 and it will cost what a £50,000 repayment would with the Halifax ’ . |
| 30 | Bristol and West hopes that by arranging collective auctions it will be able to overcome this problem . |