Example sentences of "by [Wh det] he [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , even without knowing it , he may be looking to her as a vehicle by which he might rediscover his lost self , which did n't have the chance to blossom earlier . |
| 2 | Harry held his breath , catching at that as at the first landmark by which he might hope to get his bearings . |
| 3 | Men may , for example , both see themselves as ‘ stronger ’ than women and tend to see women as more weak and passive , but also see women as having a power over them that can seem to engulf the man in forms of emotional dependence by which he may feel threatened . |
| 4 | Mr Wolski turned back to his bed content to have made a decision by which he would stand , and feeling that the tiredness he felt coming over him was decades old . |
| 5 | It is to the cavity magnetron that Harry Boot made his greatest contribution and by which he will be long remembered . |
| 6 | In one case Valens discusses a trust worded ‘ Let Stichus be free : and I request that my heir teach him a skill by which he can look after himself ; in another Ulpian deals with a bequest of an annual sum in which the amount has been left out . |
| 7 | Sir Hugo Mallinger , to a limited extent , uses his property for the common good , not least in raising Daniel Deronda ; Grandcourt regards his inheritance as the means by which he can indulge his vices . |
| 8 | He has a local European Member of Parliament and I am sure that he is aware of ways by which he can speed up replies . |
| 9 | But if man is vulnerable to impulses which send him spiralling down into darkness , that very vulnerability is the means by which he can existentially know the strength whereby it can be healed and stabilised . |
| 10 | First comes the inner experience of a spiritual reality described as a door opening to reveal not only the face of the Beloved but a way of love by which he can be reached ( 15.92 ) . |
| 11 | There is a potency in his warning at the end of chapter fourteen that the world is dependent on time which will end , and man 's most urgent and natural work , therefore , should be to find the means by which he can pass beyond it . |
| 12 | ‘ His plea of guilty is the only means by which he can express his contrition today and acknowledging it must be a lengthy prison sentence which he now faces . ’ |
| 13 | Let us look at a holy man in action , and the means by which he could exercise local power in a society where constitutionalism by no means ruled . |
| 14 | The head lamps were in the conventional position on the dash and there was a mirror under the canopy edge so that the driver could view the interior of the car without turning round and another just above the stair opening in the canopy , by which he could view the upper deck . |
| 15 | But he was now in his fifties and , despite his son 's boast , there was no means by which he could be financially independent for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 17 | It is worth noting that the Cuban revolution avoided a similar fate by incorporation of the Communists ; the Bolivian experience may well have been in Castro 's mind when he was assessing the means by which he could sustain his own revolution . |
| 18 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |
| 19 | While Mountbatten was still alive , Charles had begun working on many projects and had become enthused by what he could do to help the young and the disadvantaged ; he was fired by what needed to be done in the inner cities and keen to find ways of defusing racial tension . |
| 20 | And perhaps , occasionally , he was frustrated by what he could or could not achieve . |