Example sentences of "by [Wh det] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was noted in the introduction to Chapter 21 that , if planning represented the route map for the journey , then organizing represented the means by which one could arrive at the chosen destination . |
| 2 | We should regard negotiations rather as the means by which we could establish formal agreements between our state and Israel . |
| 3 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 4 | Dana was much more experienced than I : he taught me a form of carezza by which we could indefinitely prolong erection and contain ejaculation . |
| 5 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 6 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 7 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 8 | There is ample evidence that in the Victorian and Edwardian ages working-class women were knowledgeable about techniques by which they could control family size . |
| 9 | Of 223 defaulters at the Pickering Forest eyre of 1334 , only nineteen finally surrendered themselves at the York county court in August 1338 ; the remainder , who had no lands or chattels by which they could be distrained were outlawed . |
| 10 | The wide range of existing tranquillizers had no common chemical features by which they could be identified , so this approach had some merit , particularly in inspiring chemists and setting them free to pursue interesting chemical problems with no biological constraints . |
| 11 | This versatility rested on two bases : first , the structure of the rights set up by trusts ; second , the procedural system by which they could be enforced . |
| 12 | There were no landmarks , no features by which they could determine their position even if it had been light enough to see them . |
| 13 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 14 | A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time . |
| 15 | This development is particularly important in the study of those who wrote in the vernacular for laymen who were cut off from the richness of recollected prayer in the practice of the liturgy and in search of modes by which they could realise the substance of their faith . |
| 16 | Jenny saw one way by which she could reach and stop Miss Clinton before either of them — if she had the pluck . |
| 17 | Made some sort of mark by which she could be remembered . |
| 18 | Was there perhaps some route by which it could be circumvented ? |
| 19 | There is no difficulty in explaining how a structure such as an eye or a feather contributes to survival and reproduction ; the difficulty is in thinking of a series of steps by which it could have arisen . |
| 20 | If character was the watchword of moral philanthropy as personified by , for example , the COS , so citizenship was the criterion by which it could be judged . |
| 21 | ‘ . The transformation of the industry would undoubtedly be both costly and painful but it was the only means by which it could ensure a future for itself . |
| 22 | Each science in its infancy has had to establish the assumptions and procedures by which it could claim to extend our knowledge of nature . |
| 23 | Whilst it may be possible for certain hoists and lifts to be provided with dual controls and to be relied upon to assist in the initial stages of smouldering fire or even the last stages of salvage and reinstatement , and whilst the provision of a portable extinguisher could be regarded as standard , the dangers involved in aligning the confines of a lift or cage to a developing fire in the only manner by which it could be used effectively are sufficiently great to warrant special mention when consideration is being given to emergency planning . |
| 24 | The greatest obstacle to the acceptance of the drift hypothesis was not so much the nature of this supporting evidence ( although alternative explanations were readily proffered ) but rather the failure to find a convincing mechanism by which it could occur . |
| 25 | The passage continued narrow , clearly cut and low-roofed , a safe and secret way out of the castle by which the garrison could retreat towards Shrewsbury , if too hard pressed , and by which it could receive stores and reinforcements in time of siege , or emerge to raid and counterattack by night . |
| 26 | Being married and having young children , the range of chef 's hours available within contract catering was , of course , attractive ; but the main incentives were the obvious routes by which I could move upwards on joining High Table . ’ |
| 27 | By this time the " All Clear " sounded and there was a certain amount of light by which I could plainly see I was in what appeared to be an MT parking lot , When the rear gunner returned he reported that we were in the Manston MT yard . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |