Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dark , unmanageable matter of horror and sickness is a kind of cultural noise , causing a blockage and destabilization of the codes by which we make sense of the world , make life habitable . |
| 2 | A further problem about this role is the criteria by which we evaluate the information and material . |
| 3 | On a recent visit to the Imperial War Museum to see the new display relating to the Home Front , I could scarcely believe that the tiny quantities of food represented by the plastic replicas were really the weekly allowances by which we kept together body , soul and fighting spirit . |
| 4 | That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services . |
| 5 | Human language is not just a tool by which we control other people and control the material world out there ; it is also a device which allows us to formulate metaphysical concepts , and to recognize , at a conscious level , the binary oppositions which are basic to the structure of ordered thought . |
| 6 | In the 1960s we started an art theft/loss notification system by which we sent to dealers , auction houses , museums , and police authorities notices of missing works of art . |
| 7 | The general form of their relationship has been expressed in Hammond 's cognitive continuum , on which can be mapped any of the processes by which we gain knowledge of our environment . |
| 8 | Clarity and efficiency are , for example , not criteria by which we judge social talk , and the world would be a very unpleasant place if they were . |
| 9 | The ‘ ideal ’ , therefore , forms the benchmark by which we judge the efficacy , honesty , and impartiality of the press in contemporary Britain . |
| 10 | His argument would be that most electronic circuits are organized interactively , by which we mean that the proper operation of one component depends on the normal operation of all of the others . |
| 11 | This definition suggests that public law in a broad sense ( not confining ourselves to the law of judicial review ) concerns the activities of governmental bodies , by which we mean the legislature , the departments of central government and the very large number of bodies and agencies which can be described as offshoots of these departments ( these are often called ‘ fringe bodies ’ ) , courts and tribunals , local government , and , perhaps , the police . |
| 12 | There may perhaps be properties which are evidence-transcendent , by which we mean that it is always possible that they be absent even though we have the best possible evidence of their presence . |
| 13 | Suffice it to say that we think that at least one important human right can be described as a right — belonging equally to each human individual — to maximum ‘ positive freedom ’ , by which we mean the ability of people to make effective choices about their lives . |
| 14 | The low register of the flute , by which we mean the notes between and including is very rich and beautiful and has been much exploited by composers , especially those of the French school . |
| 15 | The form of report with which we are dealing we have termed the ‘ corporate report ’ , by which we mean the comprehensive package of information of all kinds which most completely describes an organization 's economic activity … |
| 16 | Now , consider the completely unrestricted model , by which we mean a model in which C t and Y t are regressed on the same variables as in equations ( 3.16 ) and ( 3.14 ) but the coefficients attached to each variable are not restricted in any way : where the π 's are coefficients and the 's are serially uncorrelated random errors . |
| 17 | In attempting to do this , the intermediate step by which we attempt to develop certain guidelines is crucial . |
| 18 | We are not aware of these lines and angles of theoretical geometrical optics ; they can not be the intermediary by which we perceive distance . |
| 19 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 20 | At these roadshows , we introduced the Group 's Vision and Mission Statement — where we see ourselves in the future and the principals by which we intend to conduct our business . |
| 21 | We allow the Bible to redirect our lives , making its authority the standard by which we relate to God , just as Greenwich mean time helps navigators know where they are at sea . |
| 22 | Show the smile by which we respond to the story . |
| 23 | I sought to score points earlier on the cavalier way in which previous Ministers dismissed the suggestions from the then Select Committee , by which we sought to limit the rate of increase in the residential care part of the Government 's budget . |
| 24 | SPIRIT The finer feelings , by which we know God … |
| 25 | On extended trips to their native land they produced vigorous and fluent drawings and sketches of their dramatic and mountainous country using all their collected expertise to capture and convey that image or Norway by which we know it today . |
| 26 | Secondly , there is ‘ explanatory understanding ’ ( erklärendes Verstehen ) , by which we know that the woodsman is earning a living or the marksman engaged in a vendetta . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Would we accept this if it were proposed as the means by which we controlled , say , the operations of our secret services . |