Example sentences of "[n mass] by which [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are just the means by which one refers to clusters . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Workers expect to have some control over the means by which they perform a set task , and they resent having means specified in too much detail . |
| 4 | All we can do is shape the means by which they approach us and the terms on which they will live with us in the time to come , that we may keep our honour and our identity , and be their free neighbours and allies , not their villeins . |
| 5 | That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services . |
| 6 | The means by which we do this constitutes the tried and tested methods evolved from learning theory . |
| 7 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |
| 8 | If we can choose the means by which we learn nursing , we are more likely to allow others to choose the way they are cared for . |
| 9 | Design is , for example , the means by which we regain control of technological processes by assimilating their one dimensionality into the overarching and multi-dimensional ( higher cover-set ) model of design . |
| 10 | Actions are the means by which we accomplish social acts , while accounts serve to make what we do intelligible and justified . |
| 11 | Would we accept this if it were proposed as the means by which we controlled , say , the operations of our secret services . |
| 12 | Frames of reference are the means by which we classify and categorise events in our perceptual field and form the basis of our judgments and consequent action . |
| 13 | 16.7 Reading is also one of the means by which we interact with the society in which we live . |
| 14 | And this rent reduction , interest rate reduction together with the kind of settling accounts procedure which presumably will come out of this is the means by which you mobilize the masses and once you 've got them mobilized , you can then move on to land reform . |
| 15 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 16 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 17 | The second objective is to conceptually analyse the non-course related and the range of thesis skills that each student requires and the means by which he acquires them . |
| 18 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 19 | It will help her attract support for the Thatcher Foundation — the means by which she hopes to preserve her legacy . |
| 20 | Separatism was the source of this theme and the means by which it spilled into every area of feminist activity . |
| 21 | It is therefore of enormous interest to examine the means by which it did so ; for it emerged not in order to correct to revise an existing literary theory , but in order to make possible the very notion of such a thing . |
| 22 | Each polytechnic should have been required to work out its educational objectives and the means by which it proposed to achieve them … |
| 23 | And the means by which it has done so provide another example of the fascination and complexity of adaptation in the natural world . |