Example sentences of "by which [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | The records of the local authority , and in particular a whole range of core documents , are becoming ever more important as the agents by which we hold together an increasingly diverse and fragmented organisation and culture . |
| 33 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 34 | Would we accept this if it were proposed as the means by which we controlled , say , the operations of our secret services . |
| 35 | They made it clear also , as they had to do because of the rules by which we work , that no such change could be put into effect without formal consultation and the consent of both Houses . |
| 36 | As a memorial of his sacrifice for us he gave us the sacrament of the Eucharist to be the food by which we share here on earth in the blessings of the world to come . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Actions are the means by which we accomplish social acts , while accounts serve to make what we do intelligible and justified . |
| 39 | He did however attempt in his Sermons Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief ( 1843 ) and The Grammar of Assent ( 1870 ) an analysis of the nature of religious belief which shows some affinity with Coleridge , and includes Newman 's own original idea of the ‘ illative sense ’ by which we find it possible to proceed through probabilities to certitude ; and in his celebrated Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine ( 1878 ) struggled with the problem of change and continuity in the expression of Christian faith down through the centuries in a fashion which has helped many others to grasp something of the questions , if not in most cases to accept his answers . |
| 40 | The way forward must also lie in a two-track policy by which we continue to promote a public debate on some of the catastrophic failed philosophies of the past . |
| 41 | It is in culture , after all , and in mass culture particularly , that the meanings which structure our lives and by which we understand ourselves are constructed and reconstructed . |
| 42 | Rather , they argue that pornography has established the conventions by which we understand sexualised images of women as images of submission , images which invite violence . |
| 43 | as the norm for conversational speech ; that is , to accept that in informal speech there is an inherent tendency to a reductionism by which we say only that which is necessary to effective communication . |
| 44 | The way in which we present ourselves to outsiders conveys information about the organisation , its aims , the professionalism of our staff , and the methods by which we operate . |
| 45 | Concepts are formed from numerous percepts of similar things , and are the way by which we deal with the millions of percepts we form daily . |
| 46 | The process by which we acquire the culture of the society into which we are born — the process by which we acquire our social characteristics and learn the ways of thought and behaviour considered appropriate in our society — is called socialisation . |
| 47 | The process by which we acquire the culture of the society into which we are born — the process by which we acquire our social characteristics and learn the ways of thought and behaviour considered appropriate in our society — is called socialisation . |
| 48 | Frames of reference are the means by which we classify and categorise events in our perceptual field and form the basis of our judgments and consequent action . |
| 49 | As some hon. Members may know , I have some interest in that subject , and I hope that I shall be able to have an Adjournment debate in which to discuss the process by which we arrived at the present stage of the project . |
| 50 | 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 " . |
| 51 | The fire by which we sat , Mrs Browning in front , I to one side , consisted mainly of a branch of beech which she had brought in from the woods : the thick end was in the fireplace , surrounded by burning twigs cosseted into flame by Mrs Browning , who puffed upon them with a pair of leather bellows when they faltered , and the other end , in shape and size rather like the antlers of a deer , reached out into the room . |
| 52 | That is the commitment that we have given and by which we stand . |
| 53 | On one rather bloodless level , the phenomenon of the New Pacific is the consequence of what happens when all the curves by which we define a region 's resources suddenly reach their peaks simultaneously , and produce a wave of dramatic geometric harmony — the whole wave being far greater and more impressive than the sum of its component curves . |
| 54 | Let us chart the way by which we arrive at the Fundamental Principle . |
| 55 | Religion is that ideal by which we live and act which , though not embodied in particular religions since all religions are necessarily imperfect , is nevertheless communicated to us through those particular religions . |
| 56 | Yet amid the babble over Scottish devolution , poll tax , or the privatisation of British Rail , it is occasionally worth raising the question of the values by which we live . |
| 57 | This conception of subjectivity paves the way for the contestation in Brooke-Rose 's later fiction of the hierarchical relations implicit in the conceptions of discursive identity by which we live . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | 16.7 Reading is also one of the means by which we interact with the society in which we live . |
| 60 | What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ? |