Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | For older mentally handicapped children , it offers an excellent method by which they can develop independent domestic skills without being placed in total isolation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Is there no means by which I can find Mr Randall ? |
| 23 | In every question needing assessment a standard or scale of reference is required by which you can measure relative success , failure or achievement . |
| 24 | Erm and this is really the mechanism by which you can ensure the continuous or continual improvement of the quality system . |
| 25 | In general , the only way by which you can become acquainted with the correspondence student is through the student 's attempts at solutions and possibly by questions on specific difficulties . |
| 26 | There are five bridges , no less , by which you can cross the Nive into Lesser Bayonne . |
| 27 | But I do not think that there can be a rational , scientific criterion by which you can say : this is really the best . |
| 28 | ‘ His plea of guilty is the only means by which he can express his contrition today and acknowledging it must be a lengthy prison sentence which he now faces . ’ |
| 29 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 30 | In one case Valens discusses a trust worded ‘ Let Stichus be free : and I request that my heir teach him a skill by which he can look after himself ; in another Ulpian deals with a bequest of an annual sum in which the amount has been left out . |