Example sentences of "by which [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Past history is thus significant as the occasion by which we have been enabled to see what otherwise we might have failed to grasp ; but the real content of the revelation is in principle detachable from the particular history through which it has been manifested . |
| 2 | At this point , it would have been pleasant to record a series of strategies by which they had been facilitated . |
| 3 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 4 | The market is the mechanism which has traditionally been invoked to limit , control and thereby legitimate private power , whereas the mechanism by which it has been sought to control and justify the exercise of public power has traditionally been the ideal of the Rule of Law . |
| 5 | I have chosen to do this by reviewing the present position of the study of Romano-British coarse pottery , some of the processes by which it has been reached , the unsatisfactory nature of our present state of knowledge , and some thoughts directed towards the future . |
| 6 | Pizzorno argues that the modern underdevelopment of the south of Italy can only be understood in terms of the historical relationship of area to the locations of power and productivity by which it has been dominated and to which it has been marginal . |
| 7 | At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved . |
| 8 | This is the Chinese name by which I have been known ever since and which is my personal ‘ chop ’ . |
| 9 | Of course , on any theory , the ceremony by which he had been invested conformed to no canonical rules of election or investiture , and it is astonishing — or rather , it would be astonishing in anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of Canon Law — that among all his other objections , Anselm never mentioned the defective procedure as a reason for refusing the office . |