Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human language is not just a tool by which we control other people and control the material world out there ; it is also a device which allows us to formulate metaphysical concepts , and to recognize , at a conscious level , the binary oppositions which are basic to the structure of ordered thought . |
| 2 | Clarity and efficiency are , for example , not criteria by which we judge social talk , and the world would be a very unpleasant place if they were . |
| 3 | Actions are the means by which we accomplish social acts , while accounts serve to make what we do intelligible and justified . |
| 4 | Rather , they argue that pornography has established the conventions by which we understand sexualised images of women as images of submission , images which invite violence . |
| 5 | It can not be said that there are any completely universal cultural devices by which we achieve these ends but certain kinds of taboo-loaded discrimination are very common . |
| 6 | We make settlements by which we provide that property shall devolve from one person to another within the limits which the law allows , e.g. to a man , then to his wife , then to be divided among his children . |
| 7 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 8 | Most people reckon that a healthy housing market ( by which they mean rising prices ) will ensure a healthy economy . |
| 9 | Accustom the eye to perceive the relation of one line to another by the angles by which they intersect each other . |
| 10 | For Celia Fiennes , a few years later , it was a favourite town by which she judged all others — and generally found them wanting . |
| 11 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 12 | AMERICAN scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognised aspect of the anti-viral effect of interferon , to be added to the already wide range of mechanisms by which it fights viral infections . |
| 13 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 14 | By which I mean two things . |
| 15 | When he came back he looked very grave and said , " Great king , I know well what sorry news it will be to you , but the cause of your sickness is those very lettuces by which you set such store . " |