Example sentences of "by what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E gives me enough embarrassment as it is by what 'e gets up to . |
| 2 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 3 | However , we do know that what children make of television , and how it influences them , is determined to a large extent by what their parents teach them to make of it . |
| 4 | ‘ One must judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them . ’ |
| 5 | The kittens are certainly influenced by what their mother does , but there is no evidence that her action is directed at one specific behaviour , rather than simply providing them with an opportunity to behave generally with the victim . |
| 6 | The situation in England was quite different at this time , and illustrates the principle that the horizons of what scholars are prepared to believe about musical performance in the past can be set by what their contemporaries among performers are able to provide . |
| 7 | Some people impress by what they do , others by what they say , yet others by what they are . |
| 8 | Some people impress by what they do , others by what they say , yet others by what they are . |
| 9 | Some people impress by what they do , others by what they say , yet others by what they are . |
| 10 | As long as the public is not prevented from choosing one thing in preference to another , people will express their choice by what they are prepared to pay for the one compared with the other . |
| 11 | People 's taste is created not by their genes but by what they 're offered in the shops . |
| 12 | Hard work , then sudden pauses as people were overwhelmed by what they were doing and why they had to do it . |
| 13 | Transfixed by what they saw in America , airlines elsewhere expanded to get ready for the increased competition expected in their own skies . |
| 14 | But many are alarmed by what they have seen in Britain and America . |
| 15 | You judge people not by who they are but by what they do and how they behave . |
| 16 | But there were also those who were neither ambivalent nor hostile , but impressed — normally to their surprise — by what they saw . |
| 17 | They were not , however , impressed by what they found to be the ‘ superfluous materialism ’ of the Federal Republic which they said was ‘ rather stupid ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm interested in being part of a subversive band of people who live or die by what they put up in front of an audience . |
| 19 | There are too many scenes of people talking about nothing in particular and , when characters are differentiated , not by what they do , but by what the author says about them , the effect can be static and unsatisfying . |
| 20 | It is sad that such talent and thought should create such a nightmarish and harrowing depiction of mental handicap , which left viewers saddened and stunned by what they saw , and may have put back for years the progress towards a real understanding of mental handicap among the general public . |
| 21 | However , one group of Americans which had few social aspirations and lacked political prejudice was that of the young architects , less critical of the man than they were impressed by the buildings and the city he had created , and they returned to the United States inspired by what they had seen . |
| 22 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 23 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 24 | The wall running up to the skyline beyond Middle Washfold points the way to the summit of Ingleborough and is the route usually followed by Three Peaks walkers , but others not committed to this arduous marathon , especially if inspired by what they have seen at Great Douk and Middle Washfold , may wish to linger on the easy ground below the steepening slopes . |
| 25 | This was true in so far as RCM workers were frequently driven to distraction by what they saw as unreasonable demands by orthodox children and their elders . |
| 26 | Visitors to Harry Short 's yard in Blaworth , which was situated some five miles from the maisonette in Doncaster where he was born , were often taken aback , shocked even , by what they found . |
| 27 | One example is the way Christians become tongue-tied when people define themselves by what they reject in Christianity . |
| 28 | When we are young we are greatly affected by those around us — not simply by what they do but by their attitudes and beliefs . |
| 29 | Jefferson made no public denial , preferring , as he told a friend , to trust his countrymen ‘ to judge me by what they see of my conduct on the stage where they have placed me . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Our paramedics are trained to deal with situations like this , but all of them were very disturbed and upset by what they saw . |