Example sentences of "by what i [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them are captivated by what I shall call ‘ the myth of the sense behind the sentence ‘ . |
| 2 | ‘ The constable has a duty to tell the defendant of his right to have the specimens of breath replaced by what I shall call a section [ 7(4) ] specimen , where the intoximeter readings show 50 microgrammes of alcohol or less in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 3 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 4 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 5 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 6 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |