Example sentences of "by [pron] [pers pn] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dark , unmanageable matter of horror and sickness is a kind of cultural noise , causing a blockage and destabilization of the codes by which we make sense of the world , make life habitable . |
| 2 | The general form of their relationship has been expressed in Hammond 's cognitive continuum , on which can be mapped any of the processes by which we gain knowledge of our environment . |
| 3 | We are not aware of these lines and angles of theoretical geometrical optics ; they can not be the intermediary by which we perceive distance . |
| 4 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 5 | But the spirit generates the faith by which we know Christ , and it 's surely that which makes all the difference between the a mere interest in an historical Jesus and our real living faith in our risen conquering son . |
| 6 | SPIRIT The finer feelings , by which we know God … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Such clauses are the chief means by which we describe events in which human beings are involved : " Lok saw the man " , " The man raised his bow and arrow " . |
| 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 | It could also throw light on the process by which they trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 11 | Con Tours ( the big London-based travel agents ) have an arrangement with the hotel by which they receive preference bookings during June/July/August in exchange for an undertaking to take up a minimum number of bookings for the ‘ 'shoulder ’ months of May and September . |
| 12 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 13 | came to a compromise with the landlord by which they paid £18,000 . |
| 14 | She had her own yardstick by which she measured complaints as either trivial or needing attention . |
| 15 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |
| 16 | There is still much debate as to the necessity of using toxic doses of interleukin-2 : little is known of the precise mechanism by which it causes tumour regression , and many healthcare professionals seem reluctant to change from protocols that have shown some benefit in terms of survival and tumour response . |
| 17 | The bacterium , however , does not penetrate the gastric epithelium and the mechanism by which it induces inflammation of the underlying mucosa is unknown . |
| 18 | If TAGH can cause EGF receptor phosphorylation not only in isolated liver cell membranes , but in vivo , this may constitute the mechanism by which it stimulates DNA synthesis . |
| 19 | Hence , the emphasis of our work which , broadly speaking , is concerned with helping either organizations , by which I mean galleries and arts centres , or individuals , in other words artists , craftsmen , photographers , and is increasingly directed to the former in the belief that if we can help them , these centres and galleries , towards adequate levels of staffing and expertise , they in their turn , and much less artificially than we , will be able to help the individual artist . |
| 20 | ‘ The effect of this will fall much more on less mainstream client groups , by which I mean drug and alcohol misusers , and highly physically disabled people ’ . |
| 21 | Erm there are several strains in current use , produced by different manufacturers of B C G , used for the treatment of erm superficial , by which I mean T A , P T A , P T one and in situ disease in the bladder . |
| 22 | ( Sanford , 1988 ) It is complete with competing predilections , schools , logics , methods , and terminologies — and indeed competing conceptions of the subject , by which I mean conceptions of just what " if " statements are properly treated together . |
| 23 | The last type of assistance which I shall discuss here is emotional and moral support , by which I mean listening , talking , giving advice , and helping people to put their own lives in perspective . |
| 24 | That 's why it 's so important that Spain chooses the right , by which I mean Republican , government to lead it . ’ |
| 25 | Apart from necessary grooming , feed your horse well ( by which I mean quality rather than quantity ) and give him a bath when he needs it ! |
| 26 | But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident . |
| 27 | The other three are subject to severe cultural condemnation and can be said to represent the non-Chewong person , by which I mean people outside the wider social universe of humans and superhumans , in effect Malays and Chinese . |
| 28 | The critical distinction drawn by Lord Bridge of Harwich was one between the decision making functions of the local authority and its executive functions , by which I take Lord Bridge to mean the administrative acts to be performed in giving effect to the relevant decision . |
| 29 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 30 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |