Example sentences of "be [verb] by [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To say that Socrates is mortal is true is not to say anything that can not be said by asserting that Socrates is mortal . |
| 2 | Treatment with one of the benzimidazoles or levamisole is effective and the condition may be prevented by ensuring that birds do not run on the same ground each year . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A southerly slope could be simulated by ensuring that 50% of the random numbers generated by the computer were interpreted as ‘ flow south ’ while 20% could be allocated both to ‘ flow east ’ and ‘ flow west ’ with the remaining 10% being ‘ flow north ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 7 | Much too may be achieved by ensuring that people are educated and trained to operate in an environmentally sensitive way . |
| 8 | The areas for which data are not available were excluded by specifying that values less than zero should not be shaded but should be left blank . |
| 9 | At present the fiction that each MP acts on his own judgement and takes a discriminating part in legislation is preserved by insisting that members must be present and pass through the lobbies night after night , though in fact such activity makes no material difference , but seriously impedes MPs in their task of keeping up to date with their special interests and with their constituency work . |
| 10 | This is promoted by ensuring that executives keep in touch with the firm 's business . |
| 11 | What is meant by saying that judges must be impartial and seen to be so ? |
| 12 | ( A ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain is making the balcony wet , or causing the balcony to be wet . |
| 13 | ( B ) is part of what is stated by stating that rain would make the balcony wet . |