Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will help her attract support for the Thatcher Foundation — the means by which she hopes to preserve her legacy . |
| 2 | These are the gospel by which she lives . |
| 3 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 4 | In this way , the legal system can be said to become ‘ self-reflexive ’ : it develops the capacity to reformulate the rules by which it functions . |
| 5 | Much effort has been dedicated in strategic management to narrowing it , to pinning it down ( as in the attention to ‘ generic ’ strategies ) , likewise to narrowing the process by which it forms ( in the attention to ‘ planning ’ ) . |
| 6 | Hence , for many sociologists , what is frequently most interesting is why a society defines a pattern of behaviour as a ‘ problem ’ and the process by which it becomes a ‘ problem ’ . |
| 7 | While the human eye is extraordinarily good at doing this , the process by which it does so is not well understood and hence can be only imperfectly imitated . |
| 8 | ‘ The EC should have controls by which it does not to business with countries which do not keep people to a minimum standard , he said . |
| 9 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 10 | The honey-bee , in contrast , has developed a special , highly sophisticated skill by which it uses both the wax and the space within its nest in the most economical way possible . |
| 11 | This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort . |
| 12 | By which it appeares , that many in these daies do greatly offend … |
| 13 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 14 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 15 | Helicobacter pylori infection increases the serum concentration of gastrin , and this may be one of the mechanisms by which it predisposes to duodenal ulceration . |
| 16 | AMERICAN scientists have uncovered a previously unrecognised aspect of the anti-viral effect of interferon , to be added to the already wide range of mechanisms by which it fights viral infections . |
| 17 | In deciding whether a breach of agreed standards is in itself cause for action , the field man will again set the pollution in the context of its location before judging the degree by which it exceeds the consented level . |
| 18 | The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily . |
| 19 | And the means by which it has done so provide another example of the fascination and complexity of adaptation in the natural world . |
| 20 | The market is the mechanism which has traditionally been invoked to limit , control and thereby legitimate private power , whereas the mechanism by which it has been sought to control and justify the exercise of public power has traditionally been the ideal of the Rule of Law . |
| 21 | I have chosen to do this by reviewing the present position of the study of Romano-British coarse pottery , some of the processes by which it has been reached , the unsatisfactory nature of our present state of knowledge , and some thoughts directed towards the future . |
| 22 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 23 | There is still much debate as to the necessity of using toxic doses of interleukin-2 : little is known of the precise mechanism by which it causes tumour regression , and many healthcare professionals seem reluctant to change from protocols that have shown some benefit in terms of survival and tumour response . |
| 24 | Reduction of gastric ascorbate secretion may be one mechanism by which it increases the risk . |
| 25 | The bacterium , however , does not penetrate the gastric epithelium and the mechanism by which it induces inflammation of the underlying mucosa is unknown . |
| 26 | York Minster still preserves the Horn of Ulf , by which it claims to have received lands from a local magnate during the eleventh century , and tenure by horn was known even later . |
| 27 | One of the projects by which it sets most store is the Plants Conservation Programme , run jointly with the IUCN . |
| 28 | If TAGH can cause EGF receptor phosphorylation not only in isolated liver cell membranes , but in vivo , this may constitute the mechanism by which it stimulates DNA synthesis . |
| 29 | Instead of the author receiving 10% of the list price when a copy of his book is sold , the literature board could fund a scheme by which he receives the whole of the list price . |
| 30 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |