Example sentences of "that [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He had , however , noted that in clamping down on the protests of 1980 the Polish party had acted under great Soviet pressure .
2 She soon discovered that by stepping on to the glove she had the food literally at her feet .
3 There is little doubt that by going on to the offensive the UN force saved Zaire from being cut in two by civil war .
4 In my gybe , it seemed that by pulling up on the boom I was committing a lot of weight to the back which , although turning the board initially , caused it to lose speed through the turn .
5 Well apart from allowing them to breathe , and apart from the sheer fun of it , it appears that by leaping out of the water they actually conserve energy when swimming at high speeds ( Journal of the Marine Biological Association .
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