Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] by [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal injury practitioners can only make any sort of profit at all if they achieve a realistic cash flow and this can only be obtained by ensuring that payment is made as soon as the case is settled . |
| 2 | However , there is little doubt that this phenomenon is a most important one in our species and it can only be explained by assuming that , with the beginnings of hunting , neotenous changes suddenly became adaptive . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The task will not therefore be an easy one , but intellectual honesty will not be served by assuming that there is any easier route . |
| 5 | Their slow learning can not be explained by assuming that the pre-exposed tone tended to evoke a response that interfered with lever pressing . |
| 6 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 7 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 8 | The reality that there are rights of ownership and that they are liable to , and do , conflict with those of labour can not be exorcised by pretending that they are not there ; and it is the exclusion of the public sector from the Committee 's purview which admits that reality . |
| 9 | Do not be misled by thinking that this is either because of strict conformity or regulations laid down . |
| 10 | Note that this claim would not be undermined by showing that infants ‘ mindlessly ’ master the communicative content of structured sentences before it dawns on them gradually that assertions express beliefs and that deceit is possible . |
| 11 | Oxygen depletion in an ornamental pond can easily be prevented by ensuring that there is plenty of water movement which will mix the high oxygen surface water and low oxygen bottom layers . |
| 12 | However , in mathematics , the pupil who does not have a meaning for vectors , say , will hardly be motivated by knowing that this is the ‘ next topic to be learned ’ . |
| 13 | These rules can also be deduced by imagining that we try to send extra goods ‘ round the cycle ’ by increasing the flow of goods in edges corresponding to forward variables and reducing it in edges corresponding to reverse variables . |
| 14 | A point can often be scored by demonstrating that the law applicable to a problem may depend upon the court before which the case comes . |
| 15 | Ryle 's positive point , in his Royal Institute of philosophy lecture , that Le Penseur 's thinking is to be understood in terms of that of the tennis player , is different from Wittgenstein 's positive point , in 88 to 136 or thereabouts , but particularly in 100–103 , which might now be expressed by saying that ‘ I thought … ’ is like ‘ I meant … ’ ( see above ) , though this way of putting it is really no more than a hint as to his meaning . |
| 16 | In these circumstances the average torque produced by the motor while it is moving from position 8e to 8 , with phases BC excited is : The problem can now be simplified by assuming that the torque over the excitation interval is effectively constant and equal to this average value . |