Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] live " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This conception of subjectivity paves the way for the contestation in Brooke-Rose 's later fiction of the hierarchical relations implicit in the conceptions of discursive identity by which we live . |
| 4 | The people of Stamford were passionately anxious that the railway should come their way , for it was plain enough that the great coaching trade , by which they lived , was doomed . |
| 5 | These are the gospel by which she lives . |
| 6 | I am not concerned to defend that world ; I am merely trying to understand it , and the rules by which it lived . |
| 7 | Germany between the wars felt a sharpening of the internal contradictions by which it lived , but it is doubtful that the people concerned ever had a clear understanding of what was happening because the tensions were buried deep within the very fabric of the Reich and because the form and pattern of struggles that resulted from these tensions were always far removed from the real heart of the matter . |
| 8 | Everything that torments me , everything I do n't have and that I long for , that makes me indignant , or sick , or suffocates me , everything that gives me a feeling of light and warmth , and by which I live , and everything that destroys me — it 's all there in your film , I see it as if in a mirror . |