Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] [is] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between The Colossus and the end of her life less than three years later , Sylvia Plath wrote the poems ( well over a hundred were written during this period ) by which she is chiefly remembered . |
| 2 | This alone would permit the evaluation of UK problems and policies in their international setting and clarify the implications of policy choices at the EEC level for the UK and the rest of the EEC as well as locating options for Europe as a whole in the global context by which it is powerfully influenced and constrained . |
| 3 | Thus if we have a set of N words or store locations , each has an associated numeric value in the range zero to N -1 , the store address , by which it is uniquely specified . |
| 4 | The altruistic purpose is obviously admirable , but there are factors within the text by which it is necessarily compromised . |
| 5 | Yet despite the iconic status of Van Gogh 's ‘ tragic ’ life , it is the appearance of his work by which he is ultimately signified , his thick impasto brush-stroke , his vibrant yellows , the urgency of his creative drive . |
| 6 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 7 | A statute is , after all , the formal and complete intimation to the citizen of a particular rule of the law which he is enjoined , sometimes under penalty , to obey and by which he is both expected and entitled to regulate his conduct . |
| 8 | Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known . |