Example sentences of "by which we can [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet formulation is more exact : ‘ the active defence of peace ’ , by which we can infer ‘ victory without war ’ . |
| 2 | To this end he used a metaphor drawn from mathematics , the variable , to create " devices by which we can characterize the objects of empirical social investigation " . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there are those who are hopelessly compromised who believe that the only means by which we can achieve successful conservation is by bringing on board local people , and working together with them to achieve the most harmonious interaction between humans and wildlife . |
| 4 | Having established that body rhythms are a mixture of internal and external causes , we need to have some experimental means by which we can measure the contribution of each to the total rhythm . |
| 5 | This shape difference measure is the fundamental building block by which we can create large databases of outline shapes that can be searched efficiently . |
| 6 | Concepts are mental procedures by which we can create and recreate mental images of objects , ideas of feelings … |
| 7 | These Holy Ones set out the rules by which we can live our lives and , in turn , reach the state of a higher being which is dormant within each one of us . |
| 8 | Short-term memory is the phenomenon by which we can remember a telephone number long enough after looking it up to be able to dial it . |
| 9 | The reactions of an educated élite , the study of whose reading matter has so often given social and cultural historians their main access to the past , no longer remains the only documentation by which we can get at the culture of ‘ the common man ’ . |
| 10 | Yet in fact imagination can be the means by which we can come to understand reality . |
| 11 | Nothing illustrates better the fluidity of viewpoints by which we can swing towards and away from egoism , and how little it has to do with morality . |
| 12 | ‘ There are two successive movements of consciousness , difficult but well within our capability , by which we can have access to the superior gradations of our existence . |
| 13 | The Our Father is the prayer which Christ himself taught us and it is the best means by which we can communicate with God . |
| 14 | At the beginning of this chapter it was suggested that the main features by which we can characterise the wider category of positivist criminology ( and which also serve to distinguish it from classical criminology ) are determinism , differentiation , pathology and the diversion of attention away from crime ( and the criminal law ) to the criminal . |