Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 2 | The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life . |
| 3 | ‘ The crudest joke against the human race lies in that sweaty farce by which we are first formed and given life — ’ the words caught his eye . |
| 4 | We should be clear about what ‘ allowing market mechanisms and incentives to do their job ’ means — the consolidation of the two-thirds society ; the perpetuation of the spiral of poverty , by which we are now seeing a generation of young adults emerging whose parents have never known regular employment , and who no longer expect — or even seek — it for themselves ; the creation of a permanent underclass , its anger turned in upon itself , its hope for the future devoured in poverty , crime , violence and despair . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When we choose to drop some of the social and individual details by which we are recognized , then we acquire a different form . |
| 7 | And look at the way the wish connects with the fear , in a kind of fascinated ambivalence , a horrified curiosity about experiencing , through literature , something we may unconsciously want but by which we are consciously appalled . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is also a third form of competition , one which comes neither from the academy , nor from the laity , one by which we are all influenced but which rarely receives the attention it deserves : novelists , journalists , film-makers and dramatists are , at least in part , also professional students of the social world . |
| 10 | to distinguish them from the signs by which we are already combining elements of Q. The new symbols are sufficiently unfamiliar to remind us of their defining role but sufficiently similar to + and . |
| 11 | The principles of inference by which we are to move from basic to non-basic beliefs are fallible , in the sense that they take us sometimes from true beliefs to false ones . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The passages were not part of the ratio of the decision by which we are bound and with which I respectfully agree . |
| 14 | I assure him that the highest priority will be given to developing those roads , within the budget by which we are currently constrained . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The policies which are adopted are important , but the means by which they are implemented will be critical to their effectiveness . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We now return to the processes by which they are formed and consider their impact on freedom of choice . |
| 21 | Its vision for society is that of a reconstituted pre-industrial kind of community in which everyone knows who they are , what is expected of them and the kind of values by which they are to live . |
| 22 | And so are the ones by which they are judged . |
| 23 | And as one of Althusser 's commentators reminds us , ‘ Not only is there no special reason to believe that the subjects constituted and distributed by these mechanisms should be constituted so as to ‘ understand ’ the mechanisms by which they are constituted but , on the contrary , it is a condition of operation of many of the mechanisms that they are not understood by the subjects they ‘ constitute ’ . ’ |
| 24 | Such measures are often not independent , for many lawyers advise clients what it is ‘ reasonable ’ to want , and thus supply the criterion by which they are to be judged ( although Rosenthal did construct an independent measure ) . |
| 25 | Paasi then investigates what he terms the ‘ institutionalization of regions ’ , the process by which they are created , which involves four stages in the formation of ‘ structures of expectations ’ that embrace both the physical and the cultural characteristics of a region . |
| 26 | They also tend to be middle-minded , not just because of the selective ( and , until recently , highly secretive ) recruitment procedure by which they are appointed , but also because in the course of their training and socialization they are imbued with a particular self-perception about their role that amounts almost to a consistent ideology ( Parker et al. , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | In " A Description of the Western Isles , " Volume 2 , 1819 , he says " places referred to may be specific , without the necessity of having much recourse to the often dissonant Celtic and Scandinavian names by which they are marked . |
| 28 | In " A Description of the Western Isles , " Volume 2 , 1819 , he says " places referred to may be specific , without the necessity of having much recourse to the often dissonant Celtic and Scandinavian names by which they are marked . |
| 29 | Watson also deserves credit for lifting the veil from Braidwood 's secret teaching methods by publishing after Braidwood 's death in 1806 a book entitled The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb : or a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language , which made the early technique of such teaching in this country public knowledge . |
| 30 | Look , too , at the process by which students are assessed : very rarely do examiners in higher education try to identify explicitly the criteria by which they are going to examine . |