Example sentences of "by [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But recent studies from around the world have well and truly put the fat in the fire by suggesting that low cholesterol brings other problems in its wake . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This action was endorsed by the National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade ( NAUTT ) and the matter was put to the employers who responded by suggesting that British industry was less competitive than it had been before the return to the gold standard and the reflation of the pound , and suggested that wages should be reduced by 8 per cent . |
| 4 | HOFFERT AND COVEY REPLY — Lindzen challenges our derivation of global climate sensitivity by suggesting that large climate changes could have resulted from changes in poleward heat flow and/or the seasonal and latitudinal distribution of sunlight , that is , by moving heat from one location to another . |
| 5 | The big tobacco companies , which offered financial support , caused some embarrassment by suggesting that anti-smoking campaigns should not be brought into the classroom . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One paper , the Warrington Guardian , misrepresented the situation by suggesting that these reductions would fall exclusively on Risley . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Chomsky explains this phenomenon by suggesting that human individuals are innately endowed with a deep structure grammar of language . |
| 10 | PRINCE Charles stepped into the Euro wrangle yesterday by demanding that each country must safeguard its own ‘ cultural diversity . ’ |
| 11 | By praying that many children from the local area will be drawn to the Holiday Club and the Church , with their families , and ultimately to faith in Jesus . |
| 12 | Two days later the secretary general , Archbishop Felici , responded to this by announcing that all schemata would be reworked while the Council was in recess . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | First of all one can deflect it by denying that some forms of species solidarity are mere bias . |
| 15 | He believed that the government had lost credibility , first by denying that any recession ever existed , then by claiming it was only minor , then by claiming that though perhaps it was severe the recovery was just around the corner . |
| 16 | He responded by denying that any concessions had been made . |
| 17 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 18 | Raising standards ; by guaranteeing that all pupils get a balanced curriculum which prepares them for adult life ; and by setting objectives over the full range of abilities — via ‘ attainment targets ’ backed up with appropriate assessment arrangements . |
| 19 | Wherever you are , precious dollars can be saved at dinner by remembering that American portions are huge and often quite enough for two if not more . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We shall start by confirming that sexual behaviour does indeed ensure that mates are of the correct species , and then see how well Darwin 's theory , modified and tested by recent work , can explain the full variety of sexual behaviour in animals both during courtship and , later , in parental care . |
| 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 | Bourdieu wished to retain what we have learnt from structural analysis , and yet to mitigate its objectivist implications by emphasizing that such structures produce not rules but dispositions , and underlie not determinacy but strategy . |
| 24 | We could start by complaining that this argument , as an inductive argument , is very weak , since of necessity it argues from a single instance . |
| 25 | One simple solution which is easy to interpret is obtained by requiring that each term in the wave equation is separately zero . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And , fourthly , because of these other limitations local authorities , especially those in the inner cities , usually end up trying to attract or influence the behaviour of a pool of small firms , which they often justify by stating that small firms are the key to local regeneration . |
| 28 | The Tories attempt to justify their punitive legislation by stating that industrial disputes affect economic growth . |
| 29 | Though we have begun by stating that some consonances are stronger than others , the difference is not striking , and for the sake of simplicity we intend to regard them as equal for this method of creating harmony . |
| 30 | We shall end by observing that some adjectives ( in fact most of those discussed in Sections 6.7 and 6.8 , but not former , would-be , so-called nor late unless we give it an altogether different lexical value ) can occur with more than one value , that is , either as separatives or as ordinary ascriptive adjectives . |