Example sentences of "by which they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All green plants depend on light to power the chemical processes by which they synthesise their body substances from simple elements . |
| 2 | However , although this is in a manner so , ‘ rationality ’ in a more usual sense refers to the particular sort of rationality distinctive of human beings , by which they participate in their own way in the ultimate rationality of the universe . ) |
| 3 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 4 | In nineteen sixty one , prior to the crisis , the Americans had to face the rather humiliating settlement in Laos by which they accepted a communist erm er government , or at least a government which had communist members , erm Kennedy wanted to intervene in Laos but again was restrained by his British ally , MacMillan would n't in fact accept er that we should get involved in a ground war in Indo-China . |
| 5 | Salvadorean women can not begin the practical experiment by which they hope to change their lives — now largely a theoretical debate — until the country 's right to self-determination is respected . |
| 6 | The people of Stamford were passionately anxious that the railway should come their way , for it was plain enough that the great coaching trade , by which they lived , was doomed . |
| 7 | The extreme nature of the damage seen in the diurnal raptors is matched to a considerable degree in some of the owls , and both approach the degree of damage done by mammalian carnivores ( Fig. 3.4 ) , which have the added advantage of crushing teeth by which they break up their prey before ingestion ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 8 | This distinction reflects the mixture of accident and design by which they grew . |
| 9 | We have traced the processes by which they become turbulent in Sections 17.6–17.8 and Chapter 18 . |
| 10 | The form of signals can be understood in terms of the medium in which they are transmitted , their ancestry , and the process called ritualization by which they evolve from their ancestral form into signals . |
| 11 | Replicators that happen to have what it takes to get replicated would come to predominate in the world , no matter how long and indirect the chain of causal links by which they influence their probability of being replicated . |
| 12 | The idea of citizenship itself had a special status during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods as politicians , philosophers , educationalists , and social scientists were continually calling for a revival of the concept , by which they had in mind a form of social organization stressing harmony , duty , service , self-realization , rationality , and morally good behaviour . |
| 13 | The Scots were meanwhile retreating along the same route by which they had advanced , but to a very different reception . |
| 14 | It would be better , they decided , to retrace their steps and find the door by which they had left . |
| 15 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 16 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 17 | He stopped almost opposite the hole by which they had come up , and Hazel joined him . |
| 18 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 19 | As they passed between the two pillars along the path by which they had entered , the Wheel cleared with plenty of room to spare . |
| 20 | Maurice took it without a word and , after a moment , shambled off up the path by which they had come . |
| 21 | They left the house by the same route by which they had entered , though had not gone far when her escort stopped to exchange a few words with an odd-job man who was undertaking a minor repair near some outbuildings . |
| 22 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 23 | The fossils showed that new groups originated in particular parts of the world , and focused attention on the process by which they expand around the globe , often exterminating more primitive forms as they go . |
| 24 | They were more often intellectuals than big industrialists , being what Robert Gray has called ‘ urban gentry ’ , removed from the direct world of production and distinguished from other bourgeois groups by the rigours by which they set forth their views . |
| 25 | The object of parody in Between is not so much theories and belief systems themselves as the linguistic manoeuvres by which they attempt to convince . |
| 26 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 27 | The aim is to identify the elements shaping social identity which are shared by all the family types and those by which they differ . |
| 28 | The interpretative work of field staff , particularly the procedures by which they graft meaning onto the behaviour of polluters for the purpose of categorizing them for future decisions about enforcement , is , then , a central theme . |
| 29 | The letter said that collegiality was novel , unfounded , unscriptural , ‘ not even solidly probable ’ , and hinted at the powerful influence of ‘ non-doctrinal forces , whose aims and methods are not beyond reproach ’ ( by which they meant that the press was distorting the event by presenting it in terms of heroes and villains ) . |
| 30 | The British radicals , including the Chartists , who campaigned for a democratic franchise in the early nineteenth century also campaigned for a free press , by which they meant one unhampered by government censorship and taxes . |