Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] which he [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | 2.47 Lord Pearson would have awarded a multiplicand of £4,000 from which he would have deducted £250 for the accelerated receipt of the £10,000 . |
2 | ‘ His plea of guilty is the only means by which he can express his contrition today and acknowledging it must be a lengthy prison sentence which he now faces . ’ |
3 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
4 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices . |
5 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
6 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |
7 | It is worth noting that the Cuban revolution avoided a similar fate by incorporation of the Communists ; the Bolivian experience may well have been in Castro 's mind when he was assessing the means by which he could sustain his own revolution . |
8 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
9 | However , 90% of funding to be distributed to authors was not fanciful , and indeed the new Registrar , Dr James Parker , was keen to establish a figure of 11% on which he would work for administrative expenses . |