Example sentences of "which by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New Year 's Eve in those early years had possessed a dull religious sheen , a pewter glimmer , which by much effort and polishing and dedication of the will could bring her a little light , a little hope , a little perseverance : but she had longed for the flames and the candles , the cut glass and the singing . |
| 2 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 3 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 4 | At the very least it was more selective than various predecessors which by that time had fallen into disrepute . |
| 5 | Ulam took his idea to Teller who developed and extended it so rapidly that the outlines of a practicable thermonuclear device were complete before the GEORGE shot ( 8 May 1951 ) ; this had been designed as part of the development programme for the classical Super which by that time had been junked . |
| 6 | In the early fifteenth century Albrecht II became Holy Roman Emperor and the title remained with the House of Habsburg from 1437 until 1806 , when Napoleon abolished the institution which by that time was , in Voltaire 's words of 1756 , ‘ neither Holy , nor Roman , nor an empire ’ . |
| 7 | One asks whether we are now seeing tools being fashioned which by some future , perhaps less scrupulous , Government may be used to weaken the independent administration of justice and so undermine the rule of law . |
| 8 | He had seen her only once , and that briefly , no more than a few days , when she had come to Richard 's court on a state visit with her ancient husband ; but he had never forgotten her , and after the duke 's death , which by some dispensation of providence had taken place shortly after Henry 's coronation , he had taken advantage of every courier to France to send her devout greetings . |
| 9 | Picture to yourself the whole theatre which by half past five was so full that not another soul could get in . |
| 10 | On the other side was the team from the Consortium of Opposing Local Authorities ( COLA , which by this time had twenty-one local council members and a budget approaching £1 million . |
| 11 | Undoubtedly the Coronations were the most handsome cars ever operated at Blackpool , unfortunately they were constructed to a pre-War concept , which by this time had become outmoded . |
| 12 | In due course they were fitted to all the ex-Croydon E/1 type cars , which by this time were the only ex-Croydon cars still in service . |
| 13 | The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner . |
| 14 | The tracers were seen bouncing off the other breakwater , which by this time was also firing at the aircraft with similar results . |
| 15 | This in turn reduced the maintenance costs of removing and replacing 200 flying hour cassettes from their positions , which by this time were required to be near the tail of the aircraft in order that they might have the maximum chance of surviving impact forces in a crash . |
| 16 | Of the ‘ scholar patriots ’ perhaps one can say that , instead , they helped to awaken the national consciousness ; and in the evening of his life Phan Boi Chau , in a moving analogy in which Vietnam was likened to an orphan child which by this time should have learned to walk and France to a tutor who felt that the child was easier to control when he was unable to run , talked of a people whose traditional values had been destroyed and who were thus a generation of uprooted people on their own soil . |
| 17 | It contained an area of nineteenth-century by-law housing , the old commercial centre of the town which by this time was in a semi-derelict condition , and the slum-cleared and redeveloped area of Dockwray Square with medium-rise council flats . |
| 18 | On the other hand the fine ivory work from Nimrud suggests that the Assyrians made use of the workshops of Tyre , which by this time may have been constrained to use ivory from Africa . |
| 19 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 20 | Poljica 's independence was suppressed by Napoleon in 1806 , and its incorporation first into the Illyrian Provinces and later into the Austrian province of Dalmatia assisted the spread of the Latin script , which by this time had become common throughout Dalmatia . |
| 21 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 22 | It became apparent that no rescuers would be found for La Cinq , which by this stage had losses of nearly F |
| 23 | ( 8 ) Estates , interests and charges in or over land which are not legal estates are in this Act referred to as " equitable interests , " and powers which by this Act are to operate only in equity are in this Act referred to as " equitable powers " . |
| 24 | In the country generally , two-thirds of those are in the C2 , DE categories , which by any socio-economic definition will be the less prosperous end of the market and less able to cope with rises of 17.5 per cent eventually in the cost of a basic part of the household budget . |