Example sentences of "by [Wh det] he [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Instead of the author receiving 10% of the list price when a copy of his book is sold , the literature board could fund a scheme by which he receives the whole of the list price . |
| 2 | But when the fever struck in 1756 he was obliged to give up the periodical work by which he made a living in London . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A speaker who asked questions expecting the answer ‘ True ’ sometimes incorporated an elaborated irony by which he attacked the revolution for its failure to uphold principles and policies to which he was , and was known to be , utterly opposed . |
| 8 | A year ago , forty-seven-year-old Andrey Ananov of St Petersburg , now President of the firm Russian Jewellery Art , concluded a contract with the president of the toiletries firm Elida Gibbs-Fabergé by which he acquired the right to use the Fabergé name on his goods . |
| 9 | Harris shows the division of the mind into three categories — the child , by which he means the part that feels the emotions and fears . |
| 10 | In this volume , he argues against ‘ essentialism ’ , by which he means the application of a cross-culturally applicable definition based on some ‘ essence ’ of aggression which then can be ‘ employed to ‘ read off ’ the nature of acts ’ . |
| 11 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 12 | He was incensed by what he considered the usurpation of the nationalist movement by the middle-class . |
| 13 | His mind for a long time before this crisis arose had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a Council of State … |
| 14 | Primary process thinking is driven by what he called the pleasure principle , whereby the instant gratification of infantile desires is achieved by making use of a number of irrational but personally satisfying mental tricks ( mechanisms he called condensation , displacement , substitution and symbolization ) . |