Example sentences of "by [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law relating to covenants is quite complex but basically a covenant is a legally-binding document by which you transfer some of your income to a charity for a stated period . |
| 2 | Along this fiery path and valley , the tossing waves by which the swell of the sea is restlessly divided , lift themselves in dark , indefinite , fantastic forms , each casting a faint and ghastly shadow behind it along the illumined foam … |
| 3 | This stance is partly a reaction against what Krauss saw as a dominant position in American criticism , by which ‘ the art of the last hundred and thirty years , the art of modernism , is not being well served by writing that promotes the myths through which it can be consistently misread ’ . |
| 4 | Sculptures in cities are a part of cultural history , and can be the symbols by which the cities are known or remembered . |
| 5 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 6 | By now he has also reached ‘ the realm of real life ’ — by which he ‘ understood a whirling world of parading throngs , physical love and revolutionary slogans ’ . |
| 7 | Born in 1932 , he retired as a foreign correspondent for the Polish Press Agency in 1981 , by which time his three books had started to come out . |
| 8 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 9 | For the one version , the Reformation is the catastrophe by which half Christendom defects from the church , the church itself remaining intact and faithful to Peter . |
| 10 | The double title consisted of the church 's mission to teach under infallible guidance and her ‘ supernatural motherhood ’ by which the church ‘ educates souls in the divine life of grace ’ ( 1929 : 7 ) . |
| 11 | Show the smile by which we respond to the story . |
| 12 | Not so much an object as a place where , the means by which , the past can be called up , the future foretold ? |
| 13 | Being married and having young children , the range of chef 's hours available within contract catering was , of course , attractive ; but the main incentives were the obvious routes by which I could move upwards on joining High Table . ’ |
| 14 | Even this only becomes valuable when you are below 1000 feet , by which time , of course , you will have moved closer to the gliding site or nearer to a suitable field if you are flying across country . |
| 15 | It should come as no surprise , therefore , to find that detailed ethnography of police social practice is antithetical to the philosophies of control by which they operate . |
| 16 | men who have accepted a system of values by which to live , can not without courting in-efficiency and chaos keep for long a fenced-off portion of their lives where they think and behave according to a contrary set of values . |
| 17 | Bourdieu ( 1977 : 94–5 ) describes these as a means by which |
| 18 | It introduces knowledge of the cultural metaphors and the symbolic capital by which the constantly changing gradations of disorder , order , crime , and social sin are determined and acted upon , or are ignored . |
| 19 | By which our kind live . |
| 20 | In addition to the secular names , there is an additional one by which the person is known in the synagogue , by which he is ‘ called to the Torah ’ . |
| 21 | In addition to the secular names , there is an additional one by which the person is known in the synagogue , by which he is ‘ called to the Torah ’ . |
| 22 | There was imposed upon him , which he reaffirmed at his Bar Mitzvah at 12 years of age , a double mark : not only the circumcision by which all Jewish males are placed under the covenantal blessings and duties , but also the onus of priesthood . |
| 23 | The priest in Israel was not merely a temple functionary , a master and manipulator of sacred ritual by which the people 's offerings and worship were duly performed . |
| 24 | Ezra ha-kohen not only played the leading role in reordering the nation 's religious establishment ( re-establishment ) , but was almost certainly responsible for a great deal of the safeguarding and consolidation by which the scriptures have come down to us today . |
| 25 | Later the legends and stories with which she had grown up would be added to them — stories of astonishing miracles and heroic adventures , by which she and her father , Solomon Klinitsky-Klein — whose influence on Leonard should not be overlooked — fired his imagination and stimulated his ideas . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , advance he did , and so the time came for his Bar Mitzvah , at 13 years of age , by which every Jewish boy technically becomes adult ( i.e. morally responsible for his actions ) , a ‘ son of the law ’ . |
| 27 | Specifically , it obliges the young person to wear the tefillin ( the symbolic ‘ boxes ’ of the law worn by the orthodox ) when engaged in weekday prayers ; to participate in the synagogue services by being ‘ called to the law ’ ( a particular privilege and responsibility for a Cohen ) ; to be counted as an adult in the community for the purpose of establishing a quorum by which no service ( or synagogue , indeed ) could be instituted . |
| 28 | Indeed , Leonard can only recall a volume of the Russian writer Gogol on her shelf , by which she presumably kept in touch with her own more distant — if painful — affiliations , though influencing Leonard , perhaps , unconsciously , with Gogol 's sense of fantasy and comic genius — as well as his need to travel . ) |
| 29 | Brought up , as Leonard was , to admire the Romantics and their charming , reliable , amiable world-view , their delight in nature , not least man 's own nature which had an organic relationship with the world by which sensibility and feeling — frequently emphasised as a pleasure-principle , paved the way for his being catapulted into the ‘ surreal ’ world of the Spanish writer . |
| 30 | The music by which he frequently composed his poetry ( a natural continuance of a centuries-old tradition ) was asserting itself as an independent expression . |