Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [v-ing] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tawell 's counsel , Fitzroy Kelly , had already insulted the jury 's intelligence by suggesting that prussic acid found in Sara 's body was due to eating too many apples . |
| 2 | This move had a dramatic effect on the income of pensioners in 1948 , but flawed the Beveridge scheme in the long run by ensuring that many pensioners would have to continue resorting to means-tested benefits . |
| 3 | This is one issue on which the hon. Gentleman might have commenced his supplementary question by saying that most people in Wales are pleased with the way in which the Government have fought for the British lamb industry as a whole and that Welsh consignments have been fought for , too . |
| 4 | The JUSTICE report , A Proposal for a Suitors ' Fund , advocates a more radical reform by suggesting that public funds should be used to indemnify litigants against ‘ faults in the system ’ amongst which it included appeals on fact or law . |
| 5 | He also stressed the need to retain British confidence by showing that American policy was " sober and responsible " . |
| 6 | Last year you will remember I caused something of a sensation by announcing that this boat would cost £1m to build , this year it is the boat herself which is causing the sensation . ’ |
| 7 | The big tobacco companies , which offered financial support , caused some embarrassment by suggesting that anti-smoking campaigns should not be brought into the classroom . |
| 8 | The government defended this charge by arguing that some LEAs manipulated the curriculum for ideological purposes rather than solely seeking to accommodate electors ' wishes and meet children 's needs . |
| 9 | We will use market mechanisms , where feasible , to reduce pollution by ensuring that environmental costs and benefits are fed into the economy . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman defeated his own argument by saying that 0898 numbers are barred in the House in order to stop hon. Members exploiting them . |
| 11 | Engineering We will continually strive to reduce our impact on the environment by ensuring that environmental issues are considered and the best practicable option is adopted during the design , construction , installation and maintenance of buildings , plant and machinery . |
| 12 | But the federal Department of Energy has helped to accelerate research on waste disposal by arguing that these pools are becoming dangerously crowded — an argument the plants ' owners echo . |
| 13 | He justified SCO 's recent 50% price hike by claiming that open systems products have been undervalued . |
| 14 | UK Transport Secretary John MacGregor has provoked environmentalists ' anger by asserting that new roads were often " good news for the environment " . |
| 15 | The Tories attempt to justify their punitive legislation by stating that industrial disputes affect economic growth . |
| 16 | For long before 1946 , it had been customary for Parliament to preserve an oversight of such central government delegated legislation by requiring that such legislation be laid before it in some form or another . |
| 17 | A senior civil servant later corrected the Home Secretary 's interpretation by arguing that offensive speeches against the Jews as a whole might be liable to prosecution if they were likely to occasion a breach of the peace under the Public Order Act . |
| 18 | As far as the social element is concerned , a government should recognise the need to promote social cohesion by securing that all citizens have a standard of living that enables them to participate in the life of the community ; governments must take care that reductions in the social element of citizenship which they may regard as necessary in the area of economic policy do not result in sections of the population being excluded from citizenship and membership of the national community . |
| 19 | Using this analogy , the sonnet looks to gain power over a youth 's beauty by arguing that showy flowers merely fade but true scented roses in their death are distilled into perfume which become , paradoxically , their sweetest moment as roses : |
| 20 | One paper , the Warrington Guardian , misrepresented the situation by suggesting that these reductions would fall exclusively on Risley . |
| 21 | Religious ideas offer a way of coping with this situation by suggesting that these events occur perhaps to punish men for wrongdoing , and that the gods who cause these happenings can be placated by worship and sacrifices . |
| 22 | He even underlines the similarity by noting that such traits can be either adaptive or detrimental — i.e. lead to illness — depending on whether or not they are modified by other , more positive , qualities . |
| 23 | The Galapagos islands had given him the clue by showing that small populations derived from the same original species could evolve in different directions when separated by a geographical barrier such as the ocean . |
| 24 | Conventionalism protects the authority of convention by insisting that conventional practices establish the end as well as the beginning of the past 's power over the present . |
| 25 | Chomsky explains this phenomenon by suggesting that human individuals are innately endowed with a deep structure grammar of language . |
| 26 | The lexicon notion explains the word frequency phenomenon by assuming that each entry has a threshold for recognition , and that recognition occurs only when sufficient data have been collected about the word for this threshold to be exceeded . |
| 27 | Mexico solved the problem by ensuring that any banks that tried to ride free would lose everything . |
| 28 | Applied to the human race , sexual selection allowed Darwin to account for the loss of body hair by assuming that this character had become sexually desirable among our distant ancestors . |
| 29 | This would lead to confusion and complication ; ( 2 ) It may imperil certain aspects of the regulatory system , for instance by concluding that Chinese walls are ineffective to prevent the attribution of information , or because advance disclosure that would satisfy fiduciary requirements is impossible , a broker/dealer is always liable when buying or selling as principal ; ( 3 ) It does not appear to give any recognition to the expertise of the bodies to which Parliament has entrusted the regulation of financial services . |
| 30 | We could instead scale all numeric values held in the computer by agreeing that this bit position shall represent some other positive or negative power of two . |