Example sentences of "by what [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Autobiographies and interviews , each constrained both by what children could see and also by what they would remember as significant , offer inevitably partial glimpses of the experience of ageing . |
| 2 | They may have some specific items that are to be bought but they also have a general readiness to look around and be tempted by what they might see . |
| 3 | Cardiff turned to see that Rohmer was the only one apparently unaffected by what they 'd all just heard . |
| 4 | Most of us have the luxury of choice but others are limited by what they can do by their physical disabilities . |
| 5 | If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white . |
| 6 | During the war Well while the war as going on nationalization was brought up in the buffets by what we would term now , the activist or militant Labour people . |
| 7 | Another example of such openness is provided by what we shall call the unit-type ambiguity . |
| 8 | In effect , this occurs by what we can regard as a self-timing of the system . |
| 9 | There is a similar relationship between the individual and his surroundings which is suggested in a psychologist 's perceptive formulation of the position : ‘ Part of the intangible boundary of the self is marked off by what we can control . |
| 10 | This fifth causal relation , like several to come , is stated by what we can call iii dependent nomic conditional statements , or simply ill de -pen dent conditionals . |
| 11 | On a deeper level , it will be shown that the case for the traditional view of the Muftilik-essentially that it rose from a position of relative unimportance to become , in the time of Suleyman , the principal office in the learned hierarchy-rests largely on premises conditioned by what one might call the " hierarchical " viewpoint . |
| 12 | The problem has been yet further exacerbated in the modern age as compared with the patristic period by what one must see as the demise of the doctrine of the trinity and its replacement by a tritheism . |
| 13 | She was shocked to the very roots of her being by what she could only think of as an outrage ; a violation of her person . |
| 14 | The educated person is characterised less by what she can do , and more by what the process of learning and knowing has done to her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And perhaps , occasionally , he was frustrated by what he could or could not achieve . |
| 17 | You will be be amazed by what you can see . |
| 18 | In the final analysis , the nicest thing about writing for advertising is that you are judged by what you can do . |
| 19 | The amount you pay should primarily be determined by what you can afford . |
| 20 | Both of them are captivated by what I shall call ‘ the myth of the sense behind the sentence ‘ . |
| 21 | ‘ The constable has a duty to tell the defendant of his right to have the specimens of breath replaced by what I shall call a section [ 7(4) ] specimen , where the intoximeter readings show 50 microgrammes of alcohol or less in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 22 | If you ask in general , why social science has been in so selective in its use of Freud , and so one-sided in its interpretation , the answer seems to be , that since the nineteen twenties and up until very recently , Western social science has been primarily dominated by what I would call , cultural determinism , and by that I mean , a school of thought which believes that , to use a term borrowed from one of its founding fathers , Emile Durkheim , social facts have social causes . |
| 23 | By what I can gather they must have lived in Durham for a time , 'cos when she was saying her prayers she brought in a Mrs Melburn , a parson 's wife , who was kind to them after the father died or whatever , an' from what I made out of her jabbering the woman and the mother have written to each other . |
| 24 | Most of these problems are to do with the nature of conversational English , which still suffers badly from our attempts to describe it using models which originate in earlier studies of the written language , and which have been influenced by what I can only call our innate desire for things to be neat and regular . |
| 25 | ‘ You will be vexed to hear that some of the birds said to be in your last package from Sydney were missing : by what I can gather from your list they formed the whole of one of the smaller packages . |
| 26 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 27 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |