Example sentences of "by which [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , he is tracing the means by which anthropologically quaint units decline . |
| 2 | We are particularly concerned here with the process by which strategically usable information is transferred from the external environment to those within the enterprise charged with making strategic decisions . |
| 3 | It will not be easy to speed up the system by which mentally disordered people are moved through the courts , prisons , NHS hospitals , Special Hospitals and , eventually , back into the normal community . |
| 4 | Nicolas Platon ( 1968 , pp. 167–8 ) mentions the remarkable technique , perfected by the Minoan metal workers , by which superbly decorated daggers were produced . |
| 5 | The intelligence , by which alone such subjects were supposed to be understood , was thought to be wholly distinct from other , lower , faculties . |
| 6 | However the actual molecular mechanism by which so much energy can be absorbed during fracture varies a great deal between the different kinds of solids . |
| 7 | One possible solution is the evolutionary approach , by which only minor enhancements are made to a pre-existing architecture so that all programs are upwards compatible to the new computer . |
| 8 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 9 | It lay in producing those written documents — charters , writs , letters , accounts — by which hitherto spasmodic personal contacts between princes and their officials and subjects could be regularized , and in inventing new ways of increasing efficiency . |