Example sentences of "by [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our study does not identify the mechanism by which NSAID treatment leads to enhanced synthesis of LTB 4 . |
| 2 | The committee addressed itself to two main interlocking problems : the central issue of the relationship between the individual local authorities and the polytechnics and other colleges , and the ‘ pooling ’ arrangements by which advanced courses were financed . |
| 3 | This process , by which inflected forms are related to their root forms , is known as lemmatisation . |
| 4 | Sir , I apologise , I was going by this figure made by which indicated that it expired on the thirty first of March , I think and in fact , that is a an error on the officer 's part it would appear from the licensing authorities in fact , it expired at the end of May . |
| 5 | By 1925 , however , it was strongly pushing forward the idea of forming an Industrial Alliance by which threatened unions could call upon the sympathetic strike support of other TUC unions . |
| 6 | If the most significant work influencing an author is not cited by him , because of his perception of the possible effect of the citation on the judgmental faculties of the paper 's readership , then this calls into question one of the most fundamental precepts of bibliometrics : that the existence of a citation is an acknowledgement of influence , and it also breaks the audit trail by which published knowledge can be referred back to its origination . |
| 7 | For long-term contracts the amount by which recorded turnover exceeds payments on account should be classified as " amounts recoverable on contracts " and separately disclosed within debtors . |
| 8 | Civil society provides , perhaps , the key means by which deeprooted emotional drives can be realised . |
| 9 | Although it is known that plasma concentrations of both peptides increase in response to feeding , the mechanism by which ingested food causes release of colonic hormones is not understood . |
| 10 | She remembered suddenly the heat and smells of their first swift tour on the second day , protected by numbers and the guide , and felt alarmed by whatever lay beyond the arched doorway of the hotel . |
| 11 | I was amazed by what went on behind the scenes . ’ |
| 12 | The impression which was made upon the British by what came to be known as the Canadian model was correspondingly deep and powerful . |
| 13 | By contrast , production by what became in time the Co-operative Wholesale Society is , in principle at least , under the control of the general body of members of the consumers ' societies . |
| 14 | Thus there was little incentive to overcome the second factor , namely that Moscow 's early view of Latin America was governed by what became known as the law of ‘ geographical fatalism ’ . |
| 15 | She came of a family whose heads felt cold in the night ( their father had worn a nightcap ) and now she rose to a sitting position looking , in the gloom , like some eastern potentate , her beautiful nose and high forehead all surmounted by what seemed to be a turban but was actually some sort of woolly garment skilfully disposed about her head . |
| 16 | The leadership of the International were in general irritated by what seemed to be the sectarian squabbling of the émigré Poles and Russians , while generally defending the traditional interpretation of Marx 's opinions . |
| 17 | Several times they set out to make their way across by what seemed to be a path but each time they were forced to stop . |
| 18 | All we are left with in this critic 's eyes is the drama of one simple and honourable man created by what seemed at first a ‘ carefully studied impersonation ’ but what became a very moving performance by Muni . |
| 19 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 20 | Unionists were therefore soon frustrated by what seemed the weakness of their leaders in swallowing- Asquith and getting nothing in return . |
| 21 | That was all that he had in mind , as Prior Robert , bewildered and displeased by what seemed to him very grudging acceptance of a duty that should have conveyed honour upon the recipient , waved Jerome imperiously to the altar . |
| 22 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |
| 23 | If in one way he seemed much more human , more normally fallible , than before , that was tainted by what seemed like a lack of virginity in the telling . |
| 24 | Almost immediately he was surrounded by what seemed like hundreds of the small attendants . |
| 25 | The tea was brought in usually by what seemed a Faber handyman , with whom Eliot would often exchange some kind of badinage . |
| 26 | Surprised by what seemed like a complete change of subject , Robbie nevertheless shook her head . |
| 27 | But the contract was imposed on an unwilling and angry profession , already alarmed by the publication of WFP in January 1989 and threatened by what seemed potentially strong curbs on their independence . |
| 28 | ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation . |
| 29 | The Welsh tries came from full-back , Duncan Hughes , after a move started by what seemed an unstoppable rolling maul , and three minutes before full-time , from their left wing , Mike Summerell , after a quickly-taken penalty . |
| 30 | De Gaulle 's faith in the value of the plan was amply justified by what followed : not only a substantial improvement in such indices as gold and currency reserves , balance of trade , and inflation , but a transformation in perceptions of the economy , inside France but especially abroad . |