Example sentences of "by [Wh det] they can [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’ |
| 3 | For older mentally handicapped children , it offers an excellent method by which they can develop independent domestic skills without being placed in total isolation . |
| 4 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 5 | They provide the writers with a language by which they can recognise and communicate their sense of an ineffable being with the dynamic power to transform their lives , and the purpose of their writing is to release that dynamic in the lives of others . |
| 6 | So it 's not , it 's not a question of any one government , or the voluntary organisations or the companies putting pressure , it 's a question of all of them working out mechanisms by which they can persuade more and more people to join this particular movement . |
| 7 | Within that period there will continue to be stated periods for exchange of pleadings and other interlocutory steps since these provide a guide to parties and a means by which they can keep one another up to schedule . |
| 8 | Most of us have the luxury of choice but others are limited by what they can do by their physical disabilities . |