Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Frames of reference are the means by which we classify and categorise events in our perceptual field and form the basis of our judgments and consequent action . |
| 32 | Concepts are formed from numerous percepts of similar things , and are the way by which we deal with the millions of percepts we form daily . |
| 33 | The same process by which we simplify and organise sensations into percepts , and percepts into concepts , also enables us to organise concepts into hierarchies or cognitive structures . |
| 34 | Gagné has provided a formula by which we may detect what is missing from a student 's repertoire . |
| 35 | A further problem about this role is the criteria by which we evaluate the information and material . |
| 36 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 37 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 38 | Just so , there are certain levels of understanding in coming to believe that Christianity is true , and these may bear no relation to the ‘ stages ’ by which we have come to faith . |
| 39 | Religion is that ideal by which we live and act which , though not embodied in particular religions since all religions are necessarily imperfect , is nevertheless communicated to us through those particular religions . |
| 40 | Rather , they argue that pornography has established the conventions by which we understand sexualised images of women as images of submission , images which invite violence . |
| 41 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
| 42 | Would we accept this if it were proposed as the means by which we controlled , say , the operations of our secret services . |
| 43 | That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services . |
| 44 | Yet amid the babble over Scottish devolution , poll tax , or the privatisation of British Rail , it is occasionally worth raising the question of the values by which we live . |
| 45 | We considered the possibility that the client might be not one individual , or even an individual plus family and friends , but the organisation by which we are employed . |
| 46 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 47 | This is not to deny that it is an intelligent reaction , and that the sense of when to trust the analogy between present and former situations is in some individuals very intelligent indeed , but there is nothing in that to distinguish it from the other insights and hunches by which we instantaneously synthesize similarities and differences too fine and complex to be analysed before a change in the situation obliterates them . |
| 48 | Let us chart the way by which we arrive at the Fundamental Principle . |
| 49 | When we choose to drop some of the social and individual details by which we are recognized , then we acquire a different form . |
| 50 | In attempting to do this , the intermediate step by which we attempt to develop certain guidelines is crucial . |
| 51 | ‘ But the circumstances have changed so we have to change the method by which we achieve that same objective . |
| 52 | And look at the way the wish connects with the fear , in a kind of fascinated ambivalence , a horrified curiosity about experiencing , through literature , something we may unconsciously want but by which we are consciously appalled . |
| 53 | The means by which we do this constitutes the tried and tested methods evolved from learning theory . |
| 54 | create the illusion that the ‘ dangerous ’ class is primarily located at the bottom of various hierarchies by which we ‘ measure ’ each other , such as occupational prestige , income level , housing market location , educational achievement , racial attributes — in this illusion it fuses relative poverty and criminal propensities and sees them both as effects of moral inferiority , thus rendering the ‘ dangerous ’ class deserving of both poverty and punishment ; |
| 55 | By disrupting the delicate nexus of ties , formal and informal , by which we are linked with our neighbours , crime atomizes society and makes of its members mere individual calculators estimating their own advantage , especially their own chances for survival amidst their fellows . |
| 56 | If we can choose the means by which we learn nursing , we are more likely to allow others to choose the way they are cared for . |
| 57 | However , a few such are heavily elaborated culturally , and I propose that an examination of these is one means by which we might achieve an understanding of Chewong ‘ peacefulness ’ . |
| 58 | On one rather bloodless level , the phenomenon of the New Pacific is the consequence of what happens when all the curves by which we define a region 's resources suddenly reach their peaks simultaneously , and produce a wave of dramatic geometric harmony — the whole wave being far greater and more impressive than the sum of its component curves . |
| 59 | As a memorial of his sacrifice for us he gave us the sacrament of the Eucharist to be the food by which we share here on earth in the blessings of the world to come . |
| 60 | Past history is thus significant as the occasion by which we have been enabled to see what otherwise we might have failed to grasp ; but the real content of the revelation is in principle detachable from the particular history through which it has been manifested . |