Example sentences of "that by [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dimly understood that by holding out to me this realm of material essences , available by an act of will alone , The Fat Controller was condemning me to a cosmos of brand names , a metaphysic of motifs , a logic of logos , and an epistemology based on EPOS ( The Electronic Point of Sale method of inventory-keeping , which was just coming into use at this time among major retailers ) . |
| 2 | Also , he found that by glancing occasionally at William 's medieval illustrations he was able to prolong the actual phallic performance to well over half an hour , a personal best , even deducting the time taken to eat the cakes . |
| 3 | Second is that by ordering ahead of conventionally-defined need , the CEGB is comparing the economics of investing in Sizewell with the economics of doing nothing , that is maintaining old plant . |
| 4 | It certainly might have helped Diana to listen and learn from counselling sessions , where other couples ' problems are aired and discussed ; but there is no doubt that by taking on the role of patron at a time when the world was prophesying doom for her own marriage was an exceptionally brave thing for her to do . |
| 5 | Yet they equally commonly affirm the observation that by taking on additional ‘ jobs ’ from which they derive real enjoyment and satisfaction , their energy and resources seem , paradoxically , to be replenished rather than further drained . |
| 6 | There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that by taking away advertising you will , you will er , cut down smoking . |
| 7 | She observes that by taking out the old fuse and putting a new one in she has caused the iron to work again . |
| 8 | France 's Carrefour did just that by setting up a hard-discount subsidiary , Erteco , in the mid-1980s . |
| 9 | Virgin says that by expanding aggressively and bucking the trend it 's been able to get some really hard bargains . |
| 10 | Firstly , that by gathering together common people with common community problems we have an extremely powerful learning tool which enables us to take action upon our problems without the dominating involvement of ‘ experts ’ and professional , academically-orientated researchers with their dispassionate ‘ objective ’ non-involvement , and alien criteria of values . |
| 11 | She soon discovered that by stepping on to the glove she had the food literally at her feet . |
| 12 | We think there is very strong ground for saying that it does , and that by recognising both potential criminal origins in section 211 and then by channelling all judicial review applications together by section 21K under Order 53 , the legislature was providing for all . |
| 13 | If you look at the industry as a whole , there 's obviously the problem that by producing so much more content that people are are simply not going to have the time to get through it . |
| 14 | She has found , though , that by writing so closely about what happened to her she has , in a way , lost some of her own past . |
| 15 | Elena knew instinctively that by building up a separate cult of herself — in many ways more spurious and grotesque than anything created for her husband — she was laying the foundations for her own take-over in the event of Nicolae 's death . |
| 16 | Amaldi astounded his group in October 1934 with his discovery that by slowing down , rather than accelerating , neutrons , he could provoke intense nuclear reactions . |
| 17 | Here , the committee claimed , was evidence that by intervening directly in the environment , education specialists could raise the IQs of ghetto children to an average of over 125 points . |
| 18 | He thought that by involving as many as possible in the formal decision-making , he was ensuring their support ; but he forgot that his pleasure in obedience had been learnt the hard way of monastic conversion , and it was not shared by many — not even , when it came to the push , at Bec — much less in the world . |
| 19 | However , it is hoped that by bringing in additional path material it will be possible to reopen it by Easter , with access being limited to certain ‘ clean ’ areas . |
| 20 | They also claim that by bringing out a similar model , the XJR15 Jaguar failed to keep its supercar exclusive . |
| 21 | Final Film 's managing director , Peter Stevens predicts that by bringing together their allied skills , technology , advice and consultancy they will offer a service , ‘ second to none ’ . |
| 22 | Can the tape be structured so that by reading serially through the file it would be simple to produce a text stream suitable for an automatic typesetting process : |
| 23 | It is claimed that by having sharply separated black and white regions of the skin , rotary breezes will be created between the black and white zones and that these will have a cooling effect . |
| 24 | Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity . |
| 25 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 26 | There is little doubt that by going on to the offensive the UN force saved Zaire from being cut in two by civil war . |
| 27 | I thought that by going away to school I would be leaving nothing behind . |
| 28 | Their refusal to do so had more to do with a laager mentality than with calculations that by spinning out the conflict they could buy time to mop up more territory . |
| 29 | By the next field , the river curved in almost a right-angle so that by running diagonally across , they were able to cross the road and approach a place where , at the far side of the bridge , the ground shelved gently down to the water . |
| 30 | ‘ We felt that by cutting out the broker to reduce the cost , building up a team of very friendly tele-sales and tele-service operators to talk to customers and explain and do all the form filling for them , they would eventually sign . |