Example sentences of "by [Wh det] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Glasser 's book , and in Fraser 's , the activities of the poor can be seen as activities which had been performed , and written about , in the past : but these are books which intimate that the lists and specifications of a caring naturalism — features by which they have indeed been influenced — were never exhaustive : that the truth-tellers did not tell it , and that the omissions were systematic . |
| 2 | It should come as no surprise , therefore , to find that detailed ethnography of police social practice is antithetical to the philosophies of control by which they operate . |
| 3 | Professor Andrew Greeley extended this by drawing attention to the special sensitivity of the sufferers , by which they are easily hurt , which he found often resulted from an unhappy childhood . |
| 4 | It has been made after repeated lobbying by the big brewers for an extension to the deadline by which they must free from the tie half of their pubs above a ceiling of 2,000 . |
| 5 | Through monogamy , men obtained a sexual monopoly over individual women by which they ensured that the children of these women were their own . |
| 6 | Conservative CIDs , for example , have all sorts of tricks to frustrate an incoming radical chief superintendent , by which they can legally send clear-up rates into a tailspin — so leading to the rapid transfer of the reforming senior officer . |
| 7 | First , a comprehensive civil disobedience campaign was begun by which people severed , or minimised , all the contact points by which they were bound to the Israeli occupation authority . |
| 8 | They want some kind of ‘ market ’ solution — by which they usually mean spreading losses around to other , unaffected names . |
| 9 | But their main aim is to rid Assam of ‘ foreigners ’ , by which they mean virtually all Bengalis , whether from Bangladesh or not . |
| 10 | The way in which the three parts of Hobbes 's system are meant to hang together and the methodology by which they are worked out in detail is , of course , most fully explained in its first part , De Corpore . |
| 11 | All we can find out ‘ by the appearances or effects of nature , which we know by sense , [ are ] some ways and means by which they may be , I do not say they are , generated ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Precisely what they would do to justify their share of the precious filtered air in the bunker is unclear , although only marginally less so than the process by which they were chosen for the job in the first place . |
| 14 | The most obvious case is when a hoard includes both coins and other objects ; indeed it is only in these cases that the objects in question can be accurately dated ( or rather the date by which they must have been made can be accurately established ) . |
| 15 | This then led to an obsession with political and social questions with decreasing reference to the criterion by which they were being examined , namely the Christian gospel of salvation for all mankind . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The unusual closeness of the two families obscured the glare of loathing by which they were surrounded . |
| 18 | To obtain this information , one measures their geometrical ‘ parallax ’ , the tiny distance by which they appear to move against the background of the farthest stars during the six months that the Earth takes to move to the opposite side of the Sun . |
| 19 | It could also throw light on the process by which they trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere . |
| 20 | The policies which are adopted are important , but the means by which they are implemented will be critical to their effectiveness . |
| 21 | Most of them have been accidentally obtained from seeds so they must not be esteemed as different species , therefore I shall only insert their common names by which they are known in gardens , that those who are inclined to collect all the varieties may be at no loss for their titles . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , a time by which they must be achieved should be stated . |
| 23 | God , they have said , is ‘ being ’ or ‘ being itself ’ ( by which they mean that all else has to be ‘ something ’ , whereas God as pure being simply ‘ is ’ ) . |
| 24 | For older mentally handicapped children , it offers an excellent method by which they can develop independent domestic skills without being placed in total isolation . |
| 25 | Both combined lead to political conclusions which are in some ways akin to those of Rawls : political action should be concerned with providing individuals with the means by which they can develop , which enable them to choose and attempt to realize their own conception of the good . |
| 26 | A gigantic West Indian , his black face glistening with sweat , bracing himself with legs astride in the midst of the fumes and the heat and the din , dragged the heavy castings from the grid with a steel rod , and attached them to hooks on a conveyor belt by which they were carried away , looking now like carcasses of meat , to another stage of the cooling process . |
| 27 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 28 | He envies too the regularity , the normality of a life at sea and the unique relation of those who work it with the element by which they are surrounded : ‘ The water opens and closes continuously , and only those who are on board know that they have really passed through . |
| 29 | And in Asturias 's Men of Maize , which deals with the expropriation of Indian communal lands for the commercial exploitation of maize , the Guatemalan Indians ' resistance to the destruction of their way of life is waged not only with arms , but also through the myths by which they preserve their concept of the world . |
| 30 | Paying public respect to eminent people is a good thing ; and using the names by which they were known is direct and refreshing . |