Example sentences of "by which [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) . |
| 2 | In general , discoveries in geology follow a cyclical descriptive-inductive pattern , by which fieldwork leads to theoretical advances , which suggest further fieldwork and so on . |
| 3 | Radical feminists see the put-downs and discrimination experienced by girls as the means by which men control women — and by which boys control girls . |
| 4 | The mechanisms by which platelet sticks to platelet during aggregation are not fully understood . |
| 5 | Mechanisms by which scientists advised Government on national research priorities were indirect or diffuse , until Mrs Thatcher introduced the Advisory Committee on Science and Technology . |
| 6 | To the extent that it is used in many countries as part of the process by which scientists communicate , and through which scientific knowledge grows , it will be treated here as equivalent to the formal . |
| 7 | Interpreting taxonomic richness thus comes down to identifying the ways by which diversity has been decreased . |
| 8 | They are essentially of two kinds : ‘ fair rent ’ , a system by which tenants pay a rent determined by a rent officer , and ‘ co-ownership ’ , where part of the tenant 's rent goes towards partial ownership of the dwelling . |
| 9 | The fundamental achievement was the elucidation of the structure of DNA and proteins together with the mechanisms by which genes code for and control the structure of proteins . |
| 10 | Subsequent steps by which genes influence bodies are a little less obviously computer-like . |
| 11 | That , however , is a vague remark ; and must remain as such , because the mechanism by which genes build bodies is one of the great unsolved problems of biology . |
| 12 | The means by which genes produce their effects are known in some detail . |
| 13 | Morphology is the mechanism by which morphemes combine to form words . |
| 14 | It was beyond the scope of this study to enquire into the way by which urethane inhibits mucosal repair processes . |
| 15 | Likewise , what we find in the reflection is not a person , by which Romanyshyn means the empirical events that define an individual 's life , but a figure in a story . |
| 16 | We may look for generalizations linking all these groups , but we should also be aware of the different routes by which biologists came to realize that it was possible to specialize in what soon became known as ‘ ecology ’ . |
| 17 | In the twentieth century , natural selection has emerged as the dominant theory by which biologists explain the evolutionary mechanism . |
| 18 | This treatise , however , is designed to clarify the process by which man turns from death to life and finds " all he has " , Jesus . |
| 19 | They provide the framework by which man enters into , and sustains to the end , his spiritual life in Christian belief both personally and socially . |
| 20 | Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive . |
| 21 | In the progress of the Mirror the meditations ( which this text also calls contemplation ) on the Passion are one part of the process by which man sees God in himself since it activates the trinitarian structure of the soul and is the means by which the Incarnation is realised and man becomes holy . |
| 22 | When you are interrupted in contemplative devotion , says Hilton , do n't be angry and depressed but This is the mode by which man following a mixed life realises in himself the creative love of God — the fire of love that Rolle talked of as consuming all that is dark . |
| 23 | Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain . |
| 24 | The mechanisms by which secretagogues exert these multiple effects on the pareital cell are incompletely understood . |
| 25 | The second way by which BRAC gauged the effect of its Oral Therapy Extension Programme was by commissioning the Research and Evaluation Division of BRAC to perform a study . |
| 26 | There were three ways by which BRAC obtained information regarding the effectiveness of Phase 1 of the Oral Therapy Extension Programme . |
| 27 | The mechanism by which TFIIA influences initiation on TATA-less pol III genes is unclear at present . |
| 28 | There are two basic mechanisms by which bias works : choice of pronouns ( specifically in the case of gender bias ) , and choice of names for people . |
| 29 | But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures . |
| 30 | It has become the means for distinguishing between leases and licences , the latter being the means by which lawyers sought to find a way around statutory controls regarding the levels of rent and security for the tenant . |