Example sentences of "by what [pron] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they felt frustrated by teaching in a comprehensive school rather than a selective school and by what they saw as the poor quality of the pupils . |
| 2 | They were saddened by what they saw as the betrayal of the Labour Party by its leader Ramsay MacDonald , who had joined the National Government . |
| 3 | For one thing , employers ' behaviour both in the USA and Sweden was profoundly influenced by what they perceived as the threat posed by unions to their ability to manage . |
| 4 | Ministers are said to have been impressed by what they regard as the success of privately-run prisons and want to extend the scheme to other parts of the criminal justice system . |
| 5 | The rest of Europe will now construct the social institutions of Europe with Britain excluded — but we shall not be excluded from being influenced by what they do in the short term . |
| 6 | Despite using expensive state-of-the-art machinery , the pitch staff have been defeated by what they describe as the wettest season in living memory . |
| 7 | If people are going to have their opinions formed by what they read in the tabloids , he feels sorry for them . |
| 8 | Sometimes a small minority of people can be influenced by what they see via the films or something . |
| 9 | Their lives are conditioned by what they encounter in the street or on the playground , and can be ruined , the bishop contends , if they fall victim to drugs . |
| 10 | Furthermore , our response to the image is coloured by what we know of the person depicted , whether they are relatives , friends , public personalities , or totally unknown . |
| 11 | By all means we may admire , but it is prudent not to judge by what we see at the shows . |
| 12 | Early on , Mary Pat Kelly became fascinated by what she read about the film which Scorsese made when he was still a student . |
| 13 | And certainly by what she did with the women 's support group I think she was . |
| 14 | The modern school must , to my mind , stand or full by what it does for the worst-equipped children . |
| 15 | A restriction which , whatever the success of the industrial co-operative elsewhere , many in Britain would have judged to be wholly desirable ; for the recent British view had been distorted by what it saw as the examples of the Scottish Daily News , KME , and Meriden . |
| 16 | Instead of learning more about how people function in a world whose intellectual demands are growing , the US has all but outlawed the data , encouraged to do so by what it encounters in the national press . |
| 17 | It was , however , less strident in its opposition to African nationalism than its sister paper , the East African Standard of Nairobi , and when TANU won the elections in 1958 , it shifted its ground , coming to terms with political change and lending its support to African nationalism as represented by what it regarded as the moderation of Nyerere . |
| 18 | The researcher 's own observations , albeit as yet rather unsystematic , seem to be supported to a degree by what he reads in the relevant literature and in other pieces of published research . |
| 19 | The unsympathetic nature of his criticisms is also illustrated by what he says about the requirement that such universal premisses be ‘ better known ’ than their conclusions . |
| 20 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 21 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 22 | His policies were empirical , dictated by what he saw as the necessities of the immediate situation . |
| 23 | He lacked the apparent knowledge , or confidence in the political verities displayed by what he saw as the heavyweight end of the editorial group , and friction occasionally surfaced . |
| 24 | He appeared to be very perplexed and more than a little frightened by what he saw in the lavatory window above him . |
| 25 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |
| 26 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that the companies aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 27 | Moss is concerned by what he heard at the COSE announcement that they aim to achieve systems management harmony at a lower level , perhaps at an applications level , than the single high-level link Tivoli is offering . |
| 28 | So far , he has been encouraged by what he describes as the responsible way councils have handled the introduction of the new tax . |
| 29 | He set great store by what he regarded as the dignity of the athlete , treating his players as human beings instead of mere paid servants , which was how most other players were regarded elsewhere . |
| 30 | Yet the final equation of what you can afford to spend on a new car is likely to be influenced by what you get for the old one . |