The phrase "something by which" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce the means or method by which something is achieved or done. Example: "The new technology is something by which we can improve our productivity."
ONCE pop music was something by which you could tell the decade, or even the year.
The officer in charge had told everyone to take something by which to remember that shocking day.
The vodka martini was used as a "character beat" for Bond, something by which the audience can gauge his mood, he added.
Perhaps I ought to keep the details fuzzy, but everyone who plays A Game of You is given something by which to remember what they're been through, and so I heard what that other stranger thought of me.
When Talib Kweli says "speak to the people like Barack Obama," it is no coincidence that he does it on a song entitled Say Something, by which he means "Do Something".
And it would be something by which the public, the NGO community and the media could hold us as a government to account.' But Saferworld responded: 'The UK government does little to check what happens to arms exports once they leave the country.
"So I make sure to say something new" — by which he meant newsworthy, the better to own the next news cycle.
I was advised to write something 'proper', by which they meant realistic, with positive characters and a good story that was communist without being too communist".
Hopefully, in Denis's private response, the 56-year-old ended the evening with something better by which it could be remembered.
Where I part company with Kettle however is in his evident faith that we now have something better, by which I suppose he means capitalism, neoliberalism and the market economy.
I doubt it will cost as little as the Apple TV, but I wouldn't put it beyond Google to work something out by which it is very competitive.
