Example sentences of "by which she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Celia Fiennes , a few years later , it was a favourite town by which she judged all others — and generally found them wanting . |
| 2 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 3 | Ardent supporters and a number of ministers applauded her resolve , stressing the narrowness of the margin by which she had failed to achieve an outright win ( blaming the complicated election rules for the stalemate ) , and expressed full confidence in victory in the second ballot . |
| 4 | Her humble beginnings , the magical means by which she had come to share her half-sister 's privileged life and had later by the queen-dowager 's design taken her place , had been part of some pre-ordained plan . |
| 5 | The mother by this time had not acted upon the terms of the ‘ settlement , ’ as it had been termed , by which she had undertaken to commence divorce proceedings . |
| 6 | She thrust the exercise book into a coat pocket and scrambled to the window by which she had entered . |
| 7 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 8 | But the door by which she had entered was not the only way out . |
| 9 | Having lost some of the true Christian Scientist 's sanguinity about money and the faith that good Scientists should be able to demonstrate prosperity , she suggested faintly that Harriet had better take a secretarial course and equip herself to earn what she called a hat allowance , by which she meant a living . |
| 10 | After the war it became clear to her that the one heroic thing she was even faintly equipped to do with her life was to teach herself to die honourably , by which she meant without fear . |
| 11 | It will help her attract support for the Thatcher Foundation — the means by which she hopes to preserve her legacy . |
| 12 | ‘ Personal self-denial for the good of others was the first important lesson Annie learned , ’ says Taylor , ‘ and it was a principle by which she stood for the rest of her life . ’ |
| 13 | These are the gospel by which she lives . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Her first detective novel , The Man in the Queue , a highly accomplished piece of a work for a novice hand , was published in 1929 under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot — the name by which she preferred to be known , in both public and private — though for her seven other works in this genre she took the name Josephine Tey . |
| 16 | Her great deception , that cruel triumphant power by which she held her husband trapped and blinded , was held in tension between the constant possibility of a devastating revelation , and the equal prospect of an indefinitely continued impersonation of a kind of moral perfection . |
| 17 | She had her own yardstick by which she measured complaints as either trivial or needing attention . |