Example sentences of "process by which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The same process by which we simplify and organise sensations into percepts , and percepts into concepts , also enables us to organise concepts into hierarchies or cognitive structures . |
| 3 | The process by which we acquire the culture of the society into which we are born — the process by which we acquire our social characteristics and learn the ways of thought and behaviour considered appropriate in our society — is called socialisation . |
| 4 | The process by which we acquire the culture of the society into which we are born — the process by which we acquire our social characteristics and learn the ways of thought and behaviour considered appropriate in our society — is called socialisation . |
| 5 | Cutting a whole sequence of further corners I shall now take it for granted that the total process by which we habitually segment and classify the things in the external world and recognize them as belonging to species entities originates in an introspective self-awareness that " I " can be distinguished from " my body " . |
| 6 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 7 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 8 | It could also throw light on the process by which they trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 9 | Children learn self-restraint as part of the process by which they learn the values and attitudes of the society in which they will move . |
| 10 | Paasi then investigates what he terms the ‘ institutionalization of regions ’ , the process by which they are created , which involves four stages in the formation of ‘ structures of expectations ’ that embrace both the physical and the cultural characteristics of a region . |
| 11 | The fossils showed that new groups originated in particular parts of the world , and focused attention on the process by which they expand around the globe , often exterminating more primitive forms as they go . |
| 12 | So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal . |
| 13 | This offered clues about the process by which they were made . |
| 14 | " Reason " , Hilton defines as the faculty by which things are understood — the process by which they are brought to conscious recognition and so can be , metaphorically , " seen " , like the wisdom of God the Father , — Christ . |
| 15 | The balance has tipped too far in the other direction : instead of ignoring her sexuality , Christabel is now dominated by it , and so the creative process by which she should have been psychologically fulfilled has not worked . |
| 16 | While the human eye is extraordinarily good at doing this , the process by which it does so is not well understood and hence can be only imperfectly imitated . |
| 17 | Before the plutonium can be used it has to be reprocessed , the process by which it is separated from the unused uranium and radio active waste in spent , irradiated fuel . |
| 18 | Hence , for many sociologists , what is frequently most interesting is why a society defines a pattern of behaviour as a ‘ problem ’ and the process by which it becomes a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 19 | It lurks in the pages of Lindsay 's Essentials of Democracy , to which reference has already been made , and it was raised from a slightly different angle a few years later by Harold Laski , when he asked " whether political democracy has not , so to say , arrived too late upon the scene to control the total process by which it is confronted . " |
| 20 | Much effort has been dedicated in strategic management to narrowing it , to pinning it down ( as in the attention to ‘ generic ’ strategies ) , likewise to narrowing the process by which it forms ( in the attention to ‘ planning ’ ) . |
| 21 | Metabolism is the process by which you take in food , use it and convert it into energy and heat , er several days , so there were several days after the baby 's born when it 's really very much at risk of getting cold injury . |
| 22 | This method of Cartesian doubt was the process by which he reached his famous dictum : Cogito ergo sum ( ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ ) . |
| 23 | No Northern Nigerian Resident was ever more concerned with the ineffability of the art of judgement than was Furse , who was proud to think of the process by which he reached his decision as one of the ‘ arcana imperii ’ . |
| 24 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 25 | The general form of their relationship has been expressed in Hammond 's cognitive continuum , on which can be mapped any of the processes by which we gain knowledge of our environment . |
| 26 | We now return to the processes by which they are formed and consider their impact on freedom of choice . |
| 27 | All green plants depend on light to power the chemical processes by which they synthesise their body substances from simple elements . |
| 28 | This interest drove me to inquire in depth into the experiences and feelings of individuals and to try and identify the processes by which they came to define themselves and other people under one set of categories rather than another . |
| 29 | We have traced the processes by which they become turbulent in Sections 17.6–17.8 and Chapter 18 . |
| 30 | I have chosen to do this by reviewing the present position of the study of Romano-British coarse pottery , some of the processes by which it has been reached , the unsatisfactory nature of our present state of knowledge , and some thoughts directed towards the future . |