Example sentences of "by [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Show the smile by which we respond to the story . |
| 2 | Having established that body rhythms are a mixture of internal and external causes , we need to have some experimental means by which we can measure the contribution of each to the total rhythm . |
| 3 | Short-term memory is the phenomenon by which we can remember a telephone number long enough after looking it up to be able to dial it . |
| 4 | We should regard negotiations rather as the means by which we could establish formal agreements between our state and Israel . |
| 5 | This dark , unmanageable matter of horror and sickness is a kind of cultural noise , causing a blockage and destabilization of the codes by which we make sense of the world , make life habitable . |
| 6 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 7 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 8 | We are not aware of these lines and angles of theoretical geometrical optics ; they can not be the intermediary by which we perceive distance . |
| 9 | We make settlements by which we provide that property shall devolve from one person to another within the limits which the law allows , e.g. to a man , then to his wife , then to be divided among his children . |
| 10 | Dana was much more experienced than I : he taught me a form of carezza by which we could indefinitely prolong erection and contain ejaculation . |
| 11 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 12 | This shape difference measure is the fundamental building block by which we can create large databases of outline shapes that can be searched efficiently . |
| 13 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 14 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 15 | ‘ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life — ’ the words caught his eye . |
| 16 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |
| 17 | On a recent visit to the Imperial War Museum to see the new display relating to the Home Front , I could scarcely believe that the tiny quantities of food represented by the plastic replicas were really the weekly allowances by which we kept together body , soul and fighting spirit . |
| 18 | Clarity and efficiency are , for example , not criteria by which we judge social talk , and the world would be a very unpleasant place if they were . |
| 19 | 16.7 Reading is also one of the means by which we interact with the society in which we live . |
| 20 | We allow the Bible to redirect our lives , making its authority the standard by which we relate to God , just as Greenwich mean time helps navigators know where they are at sea . |
| 21 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 22 | It is in culture , after all , and in mass culture particularly , that the meanings which structure our lives and by which we understand ourselves are constructed and reconstructed . |
| 23 | On the other hand , there are those who are hopelessly compromised who believe that the only means by which we can achieve successful conservation is by bringing on board local people , and working together with them to achieve the most harmonious interaction between humans and wildlife . |
| 24 | The second reason why I feel that gradualism is the only means by which we shall achieve any kind of new vision for society and for the natural world has everything to do with the workings of democracy . |
| 25 | These are the sort of avenues by which we should approach proper research as to the quality of the environment as perceived by the animal , proper use of education to disseminate that knowledge and minimal legislation where necessary . |
| 26 | ‘ There are two successive movements of consciousness , difficult but well within our capability , by which we can have access to the superior gradations of our existence . |
| 27 | SPIRIT The finer feelings , by which we know God … |
| 28 | Thus it is meaningless to talk of bootstrap activities by which we or they who are less fortunate can lift themselves up . |
| 29 | These Holy Ones set out the rules by which we can live our lives and , in turn , reach the state of a higher being which is dormant within each one of us . |
| 30 | ‘ My life with Gary and my mother and her occult friends has enabled me to pick out the symptoms by which we may recognise those who are involved in the occult . |