Example sentences of "[vb base] by this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both parties benefit by this arrangement . |
| 2 | so I would go for the recommended and hope by this version of Windows it knows about Amstrads and will sort it out . |
| 3 | In general , the rigorous derivation of a savings function by this route is likely to be complex , but in Section 8–4 we consider a simple two-period life-cycle model illustrative of this line of argument . |
| 4 | They in turn , have consultants in Japan , erm , in Europe , and in the United States , and their particular consultant in America happens to be in Pittsburg , run by this chap called Simon who , by the way we feel is , is very effective and very good at his job . |
| 5 | Most foals are playful , but like other animals and even ourselves , as they mature and the years go by this characteristic diminishes . |
| 6 | Australian Aborigines , Pacific Islanders , American Indians , etc. , and all so-called ‘ primitive ’ peoples live by this principle . |
| 7 | Could we move on to the constant frequency generator problems er how much do by this ? |
| 8 | I think by this time they must be dreading the thought of another signal from the Ariadne . |
| 9 | Who is my mistress , wither by this curse … = |
| 10 | The now conscious impulses , two or three of which dominated my example in the previous section , proliferate by this means . |
| 11 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 12 | I mean by this attitudes of wonder , reverence and awe , as we contemplate the beauty of the universe and note the fragility of its life-systems . |
| 13 | What we mean by this , is that at times of great stress we can all be overwhelmed by the experience and find ourselves ‘ at sea ’ , not knowing what to do . |
| 14 | What do people mean by this ? |
| 15 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 16 | As we go on in our faith , we may be led into areas ‘ beyond reason ’ , but what we mean by this is beyond humanly discernible reasons and not in any sense against reason . |
| 17 | We could do worse than try to reach some understanding in the lesbian and gay communities of what we mean by this question . |
| 18 | What we mean by this is that when the pupils feel themselves put down , treated without ‘ seriousness ’ , they behave in such a way as to restore themselves to the status of mature beings . |
| 19 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 20 | We mean by this that alien or foreign ways of life are not only treated as odd , they are also very threatening , especially when actually present in the country . |
| 21 | This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ . |
| 22 | What we mean by this is that the lexical sub-system we use for recognising printed words in reading may be different from the sub-system we use for producing printed words in writing . |
| 23 | What we mean by this is whether a syntactic analysis is carried out even when it is rendered unnecessary for sentence comprehension by the presence of semantic or pragmatic factors . |
| 24 | And er the diesel pumps were n't on and er there was a couple of guys putting on breathing apparatus and trying to get in to restart them , but I mean by this stage the smoke was so thick they could n't even find where the pumps were . |
| 25 | What I mean by this is the prevalence of the assumption that religion does not matter because it is not true — it is an illusion . |
| 26 | Because that 's really erm a part of what I mean by this criterion . |
| 27 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 28 | Sit by this other girl 's bed . |
| 29 | Work by this Swiss artist a direct heir of Dada and Futurism , can be seen in the Kunsthalle section of the exhibition . |
| 30 | In the kitchen I found my servant and a stray village child , both dumbstruck by this apparition . |