Example sentences of "[vb past] by that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the instant case the words of section 6(4) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 that fall to be construed , ‘ provision in relation to … retirement ’ , without any undue straining of the ordinary meaning of the language used , are capable of bearing either the narrow meaning accepted by the Employment Appeal Tribunal or the wider meaning preferred by the Court of Appeal but acknowledged by that court to be largely a matter of first impression . |
| 2 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 3 | R then identified F as the man he knew by that name . |
| 4 | I felt vivified by that kiss . |
| 5 | Knowledge available at the time of Copernicus did not permit a legitimate criticism of the observation that the apparent sizes of Mars and Venus remain roughly constant , so that Copernicus 's theory , taken literally , could be deemed falsified by that observation . |
| 6 | Would the sulphur emitted by that coal be in addition to the 4 GW limit set now ? |
| 7 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 8 | Worse , although carbon dioxide was used to extinguish the initial blaze , the fire had by that time spread into the adjacent reactor building . |
| 9 | Even this severe shaking , however , failed to cause alarm amongst the local people ; they had by that time been living with the eruption for many weeks , and it is remarkable just to what extent familiarity of even something as exceptional as a volcanic eruption can breed contempt . |
| 10 | The rhynchosaurs had by that time became extinct . |
| 11 | Lukács ' early assault on Marxist economism , subsequently retracted under criticism from the Leninist orthodoxy of the Comintern , became particularly influential in the post-war period among Marxist intellectuals who sought to redefine a new Marxist humanism against the economism of Stalinism with which Lukács ' name had by that time itself become associated . |
| 12 | When he got a passport of his own , if they still had the sort Jarvis had by that time , he was going to write ‘ lion tattoo on back ’ under ‘ distinguishing marks ’ . |
| 13 | However , she had by that time passed her eightieth birthday . |
| 14 | She had by that time , however , had a whole week in which to do quite a lot of thinking . |
| 15 | Lisa looked back at him , oddly rankled by that assertion . |
| 16 | And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects . |
| 17 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 18 | N G Os have shown over and over again that by working alongside a community they can help identify the barriers to development experienced by that community and they can support the community as it works to make social and economic progress . |
| 19 | Beatrice and Benedick can speak verse , but their love seems much more natural in prose , neither limited nor coarsened by that vehicle . |