Example sentences of "by which we [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 When we choose to drop some of the social and individual details by which we are recognized , then we acquire a different form .
2 We considered the possibility that the client might be not one individual , or even an individual plus family and friends , but the organisation by which we are employed .
3 He also criticised the decision of the Court of Appeal in the South Hetton Coal Co. case [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , by which we are bound , and with which in any event I agree .
4 The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree .
5 By disrupting the delicate nexus of ties , formal and informal , by which we are linked with our neighbours , crime atomizes society and makes of its members mere individual calculators estimating their own advantage , especially their own chances for survival amidst their fellows .
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