Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [prep] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , while we certainly agree that the policy of the law in regard to the formalities for the creation and transmission of interests in land should be upheld , we have to acknowledge that that policy has been substantially modified by the developments to which we have referred … |
| 2 | If a court bailiff fails to effect service , a notice of non-service ( N 216 ) is sent by the court of which he is bailiff to the plaintiff or other party issuing the process ( Ord 7 , rr 2 – 6 ) . |
| 3 | As you recorded each shot , each shot-change was an edit , and the order in which the scenes are viewed on playback was decided by the order in which they were taken . |
| 4 | Few general texts , but most monographs , use footnotes-either at the bottom of the page or at the back of the chapter/book — The validity of historians ' views are largely determined by the evidence upon which they are claimed to be based . |
| 5 | Like an artist adding pencil strokes to a sketch until the likeness is obscured by the graphite in which it is rendered , the harder Hughes tries to clarify his argument , the more impenetrable it becomes . |
| 6 | Similarly the pronouns I and you ( je and tu ) are personal because they can be defined only by the utterance in which they appear . |
| 7 | Ships sailing to India which were not directly owned or managed by the Company were considered to be permanently chartered to the Company , but the value of the charter to the vessel 's owners and officers was determined by the port to which it was sent , and that was a decision made by the Company . |
| 8 | The fate of any bill , whether initiated by the President or by a member , is effectively decided by the committee to which it is allocated on its introduction to Congress . |
| 9 | La Rochefoucauld 's famous maxim challenges by the precision with which it is formulated . |
| 10 | But Dear and Wolch 's main point is that the daily lives of those dependent on welfare are suffused in largely intangible and invisible ways by the institutions on which they are dependent . |
| 11 | His whole speech is still dictated by the formality with which he began . |
| 12 | As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list . |
| 13 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 14 | They were more often intellectuals than big industrialists , being what Robert Gray has called ‘ urban gentry ’ , removed from the direct world of production and distinguished from other bourgeois groups by the rigours by which they set forth their views . |
| 15 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 16 | And since economic practice is defined by a mode of production , the character of a given economic practice will be determined by the whole of which it is an element , and may be quite unlike its counterparts in other societies . |
| 17 | The SSR description should , where appropriate , restate any problems reported by the SPR to which it relates , since it is likely that the person who reported the original situation was not aware of the true cause , or may not have known of any related problems . |
| 18 | By adopting the view that the motion of the planets would be retarded by the ether through which they moved , Halley constructed a scenario in which the solar system would eventually collapse . |
| 19 | However , his appreciation of the dangers from militant continental Catholicism did not blind him to the threat from the more radical varieties of Protestantism at home , and as Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake have commented : ‘ it is difficult not to be impressed by the skill with which he handled both anti-Puritan and anti-papal stereotypes to create the ideological space within which the royal will could manoeuvre and policy be formulated . ’ |
| 20 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 21 | [ Berton ] then learnt that M. Rey was acquiring the greatest reputation in the kingdom by the skill with which he directed [ conduisait ] the main provincial orchestras . |
| 22 | To reverse the same idea , individual behaviour is seen to be strongly influenced by the systems in which it functions . |
| 23 | The ways the mother handles the baby will be in part affected by the culture of which she is a member . |
| 24 | Howard is enchanted by the slowness with which he can move , and the smallness of the gestures which are needed to change course and height . |
| 25 | The maintenance of diplomats by the states to which they were sent , still common in the sixteenth century , ebbed away in western Europe in that which followed . |
| 26 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 27 | The bewildering ingenuity of the new classical macroeconomists is matched only by the tenacity with which they cling to the market clearing paradigm . |
| 28 | Shadow environment secretary Jack Staw said : ‘ This was an historic betrayal by the Liberals for which they will not long , nor lightly , be forgiven . ’ |
| 29 | Here I am concerned to emphasize that the NIRC was required by the legislation under which it operated to make decisions which were likely to lead , and did in fact lead , to considerable and widespread political protest . |
| 30 | The most significant and the most controversial documents will , however , usually be the subject of full inquiry by the Sub-Committee to which they have been sifted . |