Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be resolved by assuming that all citizens impliedly consent to those touchings which are incidental to ordinary everyday life and travel ; but the judicial preference seems to be to create an exception for ‘ all physical contact which is generally acceptable in the ordinary conduct of daily life ’ . |
| 2 | Do not be misled by thinking that this is either because of strict conformity or regulations laid down . |
| 3 | This , in fact insuperable , difficulty is said to be overcome by proposing that mental phenomena and brain processes are the same stuff viewed within different theoretical frameworks . |
| 4 | If not , they can be estimated by knowing that one time zone equals 15 ° longitude . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |
| 7 | The most unhelpful position that a board of directors can take when a business is performing badly is to respond by saying that such a performance is unacceptable . |
| 8 | What is meant by saying that such a classification is ‘ natural ’ ? |
| 9 | This is what is meant by claiming that scientific knowledge is ‘ public ’ knowledge — that is , that it is in principle testable and verifiable by anyone/everyone and not merely a matter of private belief . |
| 10 | One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero . |