Example sentences of "by [pron] [noun pl] [verb] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) . |
| 2 | We have seen that the position of the sun is used as a compass , by which pigeons direct themselves away from release points . |
| 3 | Women were no longer needed in the factories , and the traditional view that a woman 's place was properly in the home and that young children were best cared for by their mothers reasserted itself . |
| 4 | Since married men were normally exempt , youths in some areas might for this reason marry as young as fourteen or fifteen and be given a small piece of land by their parents to maintain themselves : the proliferation of very small peasant holdings in Denmark has been attributed to this factor . |
| 5 | Whatever the method of evaluation , man 's conscious contribution to goodness , and therefore to the Created God , made by his efforts to civilise himself is , by the twentieth century , utterly minute compared with the corresponding contribution of evolution . |