Example sentences of "by [Wh det] it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the Commission was urging that the EEC , by which it meant itself , should have an independent source of revenue out of which it could finance its own activities : the EEC was still dependent upon direct contributions from national treasuries . |
| 2 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 3 | Similarly , all the forms of human culture — art , law , religion and so on-are objectifications of the human spirit by which it projects itself externally in order then to move on through them to a higher self-realisation . |
| 4 | Leeds polytechnic has voted to change the method by which it elects its President . |
| 5 | In one was a fat , broad-faced man ; the body perfect and soft , as if just dead ; the lid had been glewed together , lengthways , and the weight of the earth had prest down his nose ; his beard was about half an inch long ; the winding-sheet was crape , tied with black ribbons ; and the thumbs and toes with the like ; the date was composed of small nails ( 1665 ) by which it appeared he had been dead seventy-two years ; as were also the figure of an hour-glass , death 's head , and cross bones . |
| 6 | But at that moment the phone perversely decided to break its vow of silence and ring — if ‘ ring ’ was quite the right word for the refined sound by which it alerted her to its sleekly Design-Centred presence . |