Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] virtue of " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is beyond the boundaries of his own home ground is an outside world composed of impersonal structures and processes over which he has no control , of if he does have some control , it is only by virtue of some formal authority vested in an office that he occupies . |
| 2 | Rather , it is entirely by virtue of the sign in question that we distinguish a class of objects trees from other objects such as bushes , etc . |
| 3 | But what fact is there in virtue of which the disposition then created was a disposition now to go on one way rather than another ? |
| 4 | It is precisely in virtue of his capacity to grasp this possibility that man is " ontologically fundamental " . |
| 5 | Stevenson himself thought that it was only in virtue of a descriptive meaning , which ethical sentences typically had as well as their emotive meaning , that they could function in this sort of context . |
| 6 | Of course they would for a start , I have n't done anything , all that sort of business , but he was extremely good and I think the reason that he 'd got admissions quicker than we did , was partly by virtue of the fact that he was the boss of the department . |