Example sentences of "[verb] by [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perception is that process by which the individual organizes an abundance of information ( stimuli ) into meaningful patterns . |
| 2 | Perception is that process by which the individual organizes the mass of information which impinges on the self into meaningful patterns . |
| 3 | We may indeed find the great house still standing tidily in a timbered park : but it is occupied by what the villagers describe detachedly as ‘ the atom men ’ , something remote from the rest of us , though not remote in the sense they themselves like to think . |
| 4 | who can not be beguiled by what the world of desire can offer . |
| 5 | It is understandable that the public , disillusioned by what the system produces , find it easy to blame the producers . |
| 6 | Once TOPIC and SEAQ screens had been introduced into a firm , the dealer could check what approximate price he ought to be getting , to be varied by what the firm took off or added to quote its price " net " of commission . |
| 7 | That will eventually be superseded by what the company is positioning as an open , enterprise-wide repository embracing not only the Informix database , but its Hewlett-Packard Co-derived ToolBus Open CASE environment and 4GL products . |
| 8 | Mental activity becomes , not the movement of a disembodied sprite anxiously wandering the corridors of the brain , but rather a mode of relating by which the organism contacts , interprets , and acts on its world . |
| 9 | Therefore , in campaigns a party attempts less to attract these voters than to ensure that they are not repelled by what the party advocates . |
| 10 | The implication is that sovereignty is not worth having , since we are totally constrained by what the Germans do anyway . |
| 11 | In a game the rules are socially constructed beforehand ; in creative drama they are negotiated , but this negotiation is often constrained by whatever the ‘ rules ’ happen to be in the slice of life the creative drama is reflecting . |
| 12 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 13 | In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition . |
| 14 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
| 15 | The ‘ Senior Fire Steward ’ would have a pre-prepared list of all sections to be searched by which the current situation could be assessed and reported to the Fire Service on its arrival . |
| 16 | It might be said that the museum was Mrs Gardner 's revenge ; Fenway Court , the remarkable Italian palazzo which she built well outside respectable Boston among the city 's breweries and distilleries , was named by her The Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum . |
| 17 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not refuse to grant a licence under this Part of this Act except under subsection ( 2 ) below or on one or more of the following grounds : ( a ) that the applicant is disqualified by or under this or any other enactment for holding a licence or is in other respects not a fit and proper person to hold a licence under this Part of this Act ; or ( b ) that the premises to which an application relates are not fit and convenient for the purposes of the canteen ; or ( c ) in a case where objection has been made to the situation of the canteen , on the ground specified in the objection ; or ( d ) that the applicant or body providing the canteen has entered into an agreement limiting the sources from which the alcoholic liquor or the mineral waters to be sold in the canteen may be obtained ; but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a licensing board from specifying in the licence granted by it the types of liquor ( including if the board thinks fit types of liquor other than those in respect of which the application for the licence was made ) which may be sold under the licence , and the holder of the licence or his employee or agent shall be guilty of an offence , if he sells alcoholic liquor of a type other than that specified in the licence . |
| 18 | Therefore at the Jamaica Conference of the IMF in January 1976 a second amendment to the articles of agreement ( the first amendment being the introduction of SDRs ) was made by which the system of floating exchange rates was legalized . |
| 19 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 20 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 21 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 22 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |
| 23 | One of the partners at the firm told me ‘ We try to persuade the software houses we represent over here that it is important to keep users using the latest version of the software , but our upgrade policy has to be dictated by what the vendor will agree to . ’ |
| 24 | His successors of whatever party will not be bound by anything the Noble Earl may say this afternoon , it is inconceivable that a Home Secretary in five or ten years time , also what Lord say in February nineteen ninety four , I really must n't do whatever er I thought of doing in er that given the fact that the Noble Earl Lord gave certain assurances , he will do whatever he considers on that occasion to be right |
| 25 | Although Barrett described himself as an ‘ antiques dealer ’ , the way he handled Miss Prinsep had more in common with the foot-in-the-door techniques employed by what the Sussex police wearily refer to as the ‘ knocker boys ’ . |
| 26 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 27 | Another building was found in 1864 by Farrer 170 yds to the north-west of the ‘ villa ’ and called by him the ‘ Capitol ’ . |
| 28 | The make-up of the urine is directly affected by what the dog eats , as you have found . |
| 29 | Furthermore , we have only the patient 's word for what he or she smoked ; such estimates are often wildly ‘ out ’ and can be affected by what the patient thinks the doctor wants to hear . |
| 30 | Whether the act was dangerous was to be judged by what the reasonable person would have appreciated . |