Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] meant " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter said that collegiality was novel , unfounded , unscriptural , ‘ not even solidly probable ’ , and hinted at the powerful influence of ‘ non-doctrinal forces , whose aims and methods are not beyond reproach ’ ( by which they meant that the press was distorting the event by presenting it in terms of heroes and villains ) . |
| 2 | The British radicals , including the Chartists , who campaigned for a democratic franchise in the early nineteenth century also campaigned for a free press , by which they meant one unhampered by government censorship and taxes . |
| 3 | The failure of the North-South Dialogue showed The South that The North — by which they meant the West — did have a coherent distinctiveness : power , financial , technological and military power which it protected with a specialized technological language unintelligible to anyone outside its closed circle except the Brown and Black Sahibs in The South who had been educated and trained in The North . |
| 4 | She was genuine , by which they meant she paid her bills in good time , and employed union labour . |
| 5 | Having lost some of the true Christian Scientist 's sanguinity about money and the faith that good Scientists should be able to demonstrate prosperity , she suggested faintly that Harriet had better take a secretarial course and equip herself to earn what she called a hat allowance , by which she meant a living . |
| 6 | After the war it became clear to her that the one heroic thing she was even faintly equipped to do with her life was to teach herself to die honourably , by which she meant without fear . |
| 7 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 8 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 9 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 10 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 11 | It was Spurgeon who insisted on a classical design by which he meant a rectangular building with portico and six Corinthian columns . |
| 12 | In 1862 the architectural historian , James Fergusson , denounced Victorian Gothic , by which he meant a servile copying , as a ‘ forgery ’ . |
| 13 | Donal Hickey at the University of Ottawa suggested a decade ago that sex — by which he meant the entirely puzzling need to mix the genes of different individuals while reproducing — first happened because certain genes selfishly forced their possessors to do it . |
| 14 | He might have been tempted to say , it 's sort of a job by which he meant , it 's something that I have to do . |
| 15 | Given that the land had been distributed to the peasants , Bukharin suggested that without the intervention of the state , that is , the proletarian state , the scene would be set for a ‘ new American-style cycle ’ , by which he meant the development of capitalist commodity production in agriculture with a process of centralisation taking place and the development of agri-factories . |
| 16 | Mr Blatchford was especially concerned about the family — by which he meant the heterosexual , patriarchal family which he regarded as sacred in Labour 's pantheon . |
| 17 | Its corollary , whereby praxis becomes determining history , he called the ‘ practico-inert ’ , by which he meant the material circumstances that have themselves been created by previous praxes and which form the conditions for new praxis . |
| 18 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 19 | ( p. 140 ) Burke estimated that " the people " , by which he meant those who ought to enjoy voting rights , comprised about 400,000 people in England and Scotland . |
| 20 | The US State Department 's Francis Fukuyama even dared to talk of the ‘ end of history ’ by which he meant that the ideological struggle between Marxist-Leninism and liberal democracy had resulted in such a clear victory for the latter that its predominance in future could not be challenged . |
| 21 | Keeble ( 1980 ) had included this variable as a proxy for ‘ the restructuring hypothesis ’ , by which he meant the argument that the real reason for decentralization was that manufacturing industry was under pressure to cut costs and had changed location in a search for cheaper , ‘ green ’ labour . |
| 22 | ‘ We are , ’ he said , ‘ about to introduce a scheme to replace the much discredited ‘ trikes ’ , ’ by which he meant the three-wheeled conveyances then issued to the disabled . |
| 23 | Edwin Gooch , the former President of the NUAAW , once demanded that the farm worker be given his ‘ place in the sun ’ , by which he meant not only better pay and conditions but a more deserving recognition by the rest of society and equality of opportunity within it . |
| 24 | The only practical question ‘ , he wrote in a letter to Churchill on 2 February 1925 , ‘ is the date ’ , by which he meant the day on which Britain would return to the Gold Standard . |