Example sentences of "by which [pron] [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 2 | Salvation in found in no one else for is there there is no other name under heaven given to me by which we must be seen . |
| 3 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 4 | ( 5 ) the relative ignorance of teachers as to available materials and the means by which they might be acquired through the project and other county services |
| 5 | Already , too , one may see the start of a symbiotic relationship in which France would increasingly depend upon American resources to achieve purposes which , left to herself , would be beyond her , while American objectives , although they did not entirely coincide with the French and for all the power which they would ultimately deploy , had to include France as a frail but , for the moment , indispensable means by which they might be attained . |
| 6 | The empirical research carried out here is intended to test the feasibility of this approach , as well as providing some general indications of what the effects might be and of one way by which they can be represented on the final output map . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , a time by which they must be achieved should be stated . |
| 8 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 9 | This versatility rested on two bases : first , the structure of the rights set up by trusts ; second , the procedural system by which they could be enforced . |
| 10 | The wide range of existing tranquillizers had no common chemical features by which they could be identified , so this approach had some merit , particularly in inspiring chemists and setting them free to pursue interesting chemical problems with no biological constraints . |
| 11 | Rufus took her £40 off her by the reception desk , having set in train the arrangements by which she would be admitted to a fashionable West End clinic , with Rufus , her surgery and her hospitalization ultimately paid for by some provident association to which she and her husband subscribed . |
| 12 | Made some sort of mark by which she could be remembered . |
| 13 | It was also embodied in the Hours of the Virgin that daily reminded the devout laity as well as religious , of an archetypal pattern of suffering through which the nature of redemption was manifested and which established the means by which it would be experienced . |
| 14 | A major US pharmaceutical company , Merck and Co. , has reached an agreement with the National Institute of Biodiversity of Costa Rica , by which it will be allowed to " screen " plants and insects gathered from Costa Rican forests in order to assess their medical potential . |
| 15 | This analysis corresponds to what Marr terms a ‘ computational theory ’ of edge detection , since it specifies the goal of the computation and the strategy by which it will be carried out . |
| 16 | Was there perhaps some route by which it could be circumvented ? |
| 17 | If character was the watchword of moral philanthropy as personified by , for example , the COS , so citizenship was the criterion by which it could be judged . |
| 18 | Whilst it may be possible for certain hoists and lifts to be provided with dual controls and to be relied upon to assist in the initial stages of smouldering fire or even the last stages of salvage and reinstatement , and whilst the provision of a portable extinguisher could be regarded as standard , the dangers involved in aligning the confines of a lift or cage to a developing fire in the only manner by which it could be used effectively are sufficiently great to warrant special mention when consideration is being given to emergency planning . |
| 19 | Now that we have established the principles of inheritance , and the methods by which it can be studied in complex cases , let us see how well they apply to behaviour . |
| 20 | If first used before 1 September 1978 it must also be equipped with pedals by which it can be propelled . |
| 21 | If you 've got an idea or a message to send it has to be encoded in some way then there 's various mediums or media by which it can be transmitted but it 's got to be decoded by the receiver for the idea or message to be understood , and there 's some kind of feedback mechanism potentially from the receiver to the sender . |
| 22 | When considering the question of the character of the coordinate singularity at , Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1986 b ) have given a transformation by which it can be removed . |
| 23 | Let us look a little more closely at how that success has been achieved and examine the standards by which it can be judged . |
| 24 | Moreover , if we accept , as it is often proclaimed , that user education is a continuous educational process , desirable for everyone at different stages of their lives , then this goal must surely be sought and certainly co-operation and co-ordination are the agencies by which it can be effected . |
| 25 | In the process of its development the manager must define the purposes of community education , identify the steps by which it can be provided , define responsibilities at each stage and operate some form of continuous monitoring . |
| 26 | " Since literature is a reflection of social life " , he argued , " the standard by which it should be gauged is precisely the attitude which it takes to such great facts of historical development as the war , the October Revolution and fascism . " |
| 27 | This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world . |
| 28 | First comes the inner experience of a spiritual reality described as a door opening to reveal not only the face of the Beloved but a way of love by which he can be reached ( 15.92 ) . |
| 29 | The things which were there were the objects by which someone might be identified . |