Example sentences of "by which [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old system — by which banks only reported accounts which received more than £500 per annum interest — was scrapped in return for the abolition of composite rate tax , enabling gross interest payments for savers on low incomes . |
| 2 | Parliament also sought to eliminate the so-called ‘ democratic deficit ’ , by which powers previously exercised by national governments who were supervised by national Parliaments , passed to the unelected Council of Ministers , bypassing any Parliamentary scrutiny , whether by the European or by national Parliaments . |
| 3 | ( So firm is the grip held by the revived quantity theory of money nowadays that few of the monetarists or new classical macroeconomists who followed in Friedman 's footsteps bothered to elucidate the mechanism by which changes in M s ( or in ) affect W and P. They just do . ) |
| 4 | The curve measures the amount by which falls as the population of the locality increases . |
| 5 | my Lord er , to only just final conclusions my Lord the first conclusion is that nothing in community law , nothing in the directives in the insurance companies act can be pointed to by which grants powers to them to regulate the insurance markets . |
| 6 | In this approach , it is assumed that the initial conditions are determined by the functions and which represents the wave in region II as it reaches the boundary , and by which represents the wave in region III as it reaches the boundary . |
| 7 | The peace movement can not ignore international law , not merely because many existing provisions tend to provide legal support for the claim that the use of nuclear weapons would be illegal , but also because , in theory at least , it provides the means by which states can bind themselves to restrict the manufacture , storage and use of such weapons ( non-proliferation treaties and regional nuclear-free zones are examples of this ) . |
| 8 | The pattern was one of weighted voting by which states received votes commensurate with their size . |
| 9 | The hypersurface on which they mutually focus each other , which is given by or , is here given by which determines the horizons of the Kerr solution . |
| 10 | A characteristic of subdivision is an attribute or property which all concepts in a given facet have in common and by which isolates can be grouped . |
| 11 | The mechanism of action by which quinolones inhibit DNA gyrase is very complex and largely unexplained . |
| 12 | Hetty , the child of a clergyman and one of 19 siblings , had been taught , as a child , to cry softly for fear of being beaten ; ‘ by which means , ’ she wrote , ‘ the family usually lived in as much quietness as if there had not been a child among them . ’ |
| 13 | One of the great achievements of the Roman Empire was the construction of their roads by which means their Legions moved with comparative speed from place to place . |
| 14 | Secondary double glazing , by which means additional window frames are fixed into fitments inside your existing windows , is not prohibitively expensive . |
| 15 | An ideal programme to help those in poverty ( which is probably impossible to attain in reality ) may be defined as one which meets the needs of the people concerned , without adversely affecting their incentive to self-help , by which means the individuals might reduce or eliminate reliance ( or dependency ) on the state . |
| 16 | Women may have been seen as valuables by which means weaker groups would try to marry their girls ‘ upwards ’ in the creation of alliances , resulting in the occasional movement of ornamental metalwork some distance from the regions where they are most commonly found , the core area of a social grouping . |
| 17 | The chief forms of ‘ self-help ’ available were saving or insurance , by which means workers , as the Charity Organization Society urged , strove to have something ‘ put by ’ for illness , unemployment , old age and other contingencies . |
| 18 | On the former Johnson wished for accuracy of representation , by which means the portrait painter also creates a piece of history ; on the latter he applauded developments in which historians had begun to consult and interpret factual record instead of merely culling from other histories . |
| 19 | The women were released and Martha Simmonds took a job as nurse to Oliver Cromwell 's sister , by which means she secured Nayler 's release . |
| 20 | In many European countries hard data is difficult to come by which means a heavy reliance on interviews . |
| 21 | The government agreed on Sept. 24 to the creation of five transport corridors , by which means UN agencies and other groups could reach an estimated 250,000 people in danger of starvation in drought- and war-affected zones in the south , some of them in areas controlled by UNITA . |
| 22 | For the simple reason that , if they were to be considered as arbitrators , there would be at least a danger that one party or the other might be able to require a case to be stated before a court of law , by which means it could be suggested that the award was not binding because of some error in it . |
| 23 | Professional rivalries often prevent a single person being the means by which services to meet individual needs are facilitated . |
| 24 | In medieval England what came under pressure were the conventions by which claims to land rights were legitimated ; while some sectors of society were attempting to make written records the prime guarantor of ‘ truth ’ and legitimacy , others were suspicious that such records could easily be forged and preferred to put their faith in seals and in the oral testimony of ‘ twelve good men and true ’ . |
| 25 | The movement of artefacts between one place and another is often loosely called ‘ trade ’ , a term which some archaeologists object to as the mechanism by which finds move is not always clear . |
| 26 | The overall return is then given by which exceeds the current yield by 4.93 per cent . |
| 27 | agrees that samples of all packaging , advertising , labelling and the like of the Licensed Products shall be provided to for inspection prior to initial use of the first Licensed Product to be published by which incorporates the Work to ensure that all Trade Marks are properly identified as the property of . |
| 28 | Thirdly , the processes by which HAs review contracts should be assessed . |