Example sentences of "by which he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its colouring , combined with the dismal weather , the heavy-handed architecture and the beech trees dotting the grounds , created an atmosphere by which he felt instantly oppressed . |
| 2 | His depth of vision , grasp of essentials , logical thinking , and the intuition by which he seemed to sense what was in the minds of those about him always ensured the best results . |
| 3 | Instead of the author receiving 10% of the list price when a copy of his book is sold , the literature board could fund a scheme by which he receives the whole of the list price . |
| 4 | This method of Cartesian doubt was the process by which he reached his famous dictum : Cogito ergo sum ( ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ ) . |
| 5 | No Northern Nigerian Resident was ever more concerned with the ineffability of the art of judgement than was Furse , who was proud to think of the process by which he reached his decision as one of the ‘ arcana imperii ’ . |
| 6 | The 21-year-old was spending her first night at Sussex University , near Brighton , when she was woken at about 4am by a man who turned on the bedroom light , held a knife to her throat and raped her , before escaping through the open window by which he had entered . |
| 7 | But sixteen days later , on 18 February 1756 , Miller quickly wrote to apologise for giving the wrong name of the ship by which he had sent seeds , roses and cedar cones , and also to thank Bartram for his letter of 9 December in which he mentioned he would like the Norway Maple . |
| 8 | Scrambling to his feet , he took the case and hung it by its handle on to a support-post of the fence , then quickly climbed back over , lifted down the case , and hurried back across the glade and down the path by which he had come , finally disappearing into the trees . |
| 9 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 12 | I slipped in by the cemetery gate , as I left , and he went up through the trees to the path by which he had made his way to join me . |
| 13 | Neither writer gave McQueen the credit of his own history ; neither enquired into , or assessed , the status he might have had before the ‘ 45 Rebellion , in which he had participated , and by which he had most likely been reduced to keeping this crude but hospitable inn . |
| 14 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 15 | He locked the door by which he had entered and put the key in his pocket . |
| 16 | George did n't bother to explain the process by which he had deflected the first demand — that Maxim go round to Century House by himself — by a counter-offer of Number 10 ( ‘ As it 's a Saturday , we could use the Cabinet Room ; think how that would look in your memoirs ’ ) — or one of his clubs , naming the one that had been effectively the HQ of the Intelligence Service in the heady days of World War II , and finally agreeing on this no-man's-land . |
| 17 | He moved towards the inner door by which he had entered , no long time ago . |
| 18 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 19 | It was accepted quite early on that a seller would be bound by any description by which he had sold specific goods ( Shepherd v Kain ( 1822 ) 5 B&A 240 ) . |
| 20 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 21 | One of the last examples for this period was the conscious creation of a further naval base at Granville , in western Normandy , called the ‘ clef du pays par mer et par terre ’ by Charles VII in the charter by which he granted privileges to those who would come to settle there to keep it for the good of France . |
| 22 | His present campaign of eloquent pleading for Corea is a manoeuvre by which he hopes to ride to power as a national hero . |
| 23 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 24 | But when the fever struck in 1756 he was obliged to give up the periodical work by which he made a living in London . |
| 25 | It 's a nightmarish complaint , as he looks perfectly well and can still play/compose the complicated music by which he made his living . |
| 26 | As they left the village and found the dirt road by which he 'd arrived , she could see that he was nervous . |
| 27 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 28 | In June 1561 , just before the personal rule began , Elizabeth 's ambassador Nicholas Throckmorton warned her that ‘ your realm is in no other case at this day , than all other realms of Christendom are ’ , by which he meant torn by religious controversy and conflict ; in the twentieth century , J. H. Elliott was to characterize this period as the decade of revolution , when Scotland was only one of eight countries including France , Spain , the Netherlands and England which experienced upheaval and revolt . |
| 29 | To the rejoinder that he wear the gown showing his ‘ highest proficiency ’ he replied , ‘ Ah , well , 1 should not need to put any other gown in my bag than 1 usually carry ’ , by which he meant his night-gown , as ‘ that represents my greatest proficiency ’ . |
| 30 | It was Spurgeon who insisted on a classical design by which he meant a rectangular building with portico and six Corinthian columns . |