Example sentences of "means [prep] [Wh det] he [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He found in its nature the means by which he could impart freshness , immediacy , spontaneity , imagination to his own vision as a writer . |