Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day we explored Bragança 's castle , which is superbly preserved and houses a military museum , showing Portugal 's colonial past and the role played in this by the menfolk of Bragança . |
| 2 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 3 | At the end of Charles Bridge you come to the beautiful gateway into the Old Town built between 1370 and 1410 by the workshops of Peter Parler . |
| 4 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 5 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 6 | This sum was increased to £7,500 for causes of action accruing on or after 1 April 1991 by the Damages for Bereavement ( Variation of Sum ) Order 1990 and can be further varied by the Lord Chancellor by order made by statutory instrument ( s1A(5) ) . |
| 7 | Untouched by the reforms of Baron Larrey , it bore the permanent stench of death and corruption , its handful of battle casualties heavily outnumbered by those suffering from accidental or self-inflicted injury , fever , dysentery and venereal complaints . |
| 8 | Following the passing of the Development Land Tax of 1976 , all land acquisitions by authorities were made at a price net of any tax payable by the sellers of development land . |
| 9 | We are witnessing only the latest episode in that long history , in which geography itself has been remade , and the landscape , now more than ever , is transformed not so much by the efforts of individuals , as by public policy and the stroke of a pen . |
| 10 | But Hong Kong was chilled as much by the implications of Tiananmen as by the spectacle . |
| 11 | Wives , becoming less absorbed as babies become more clearly their own persons , but often remaining tied , tired or bored by the demands of toddlers , perhaps feeling lonely and lacking enough external stimulus , may similarly find themselves resenting and envying what they see as their husbands ' ‘ freedom ’ of action . |
| 12 | Like my colleagues in Newport , I have been dismayed by the checks for people over 75 : it is not just the collection of medical facts but the appreciation of the social and personal difficulties of elderly people . |
| 13 | The Slav-Greek-Viking metropolis was capital of one of the greatest states in medieval Europe : it was all but destroyed in 1240 by the Mongols under Genghis Khan 's grandson Khan Baty . |
| 14 | It seems he was totally bewildered by the streams of traffic and all the noise and was very glad to get back to rural tranquillity . |
| 15 | Six of these were elected by Port Users paying £4 or more per annum in dock dues , three by the Owners of ships registered in the Port , three by the Edinburgh City Council ( representing both Leith and Edinburgh ) and one each by the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce , the Leith Chamber of Commerce and the Edinburgh Merchant Company . |
| 16 | This is indeed the landscape of one 's dreams , a paradise still largely untouched and unspoiled by the activities of man . |
| 17 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 18 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) asserts that the prime objective of perinatal care should be ‘ to ensure that new individuals reach adult life in the best possible state ’ and that the final outcome is determined by many interacting factors from genetic endowment to educational development , but above all by the qualities of parents , eugenically before conception , psychologically during pregnancy and personally after birth . |
| 19 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 20 | Unremarkable by the standards of police officers , that is . |
| 21 | Netwise 's RPC Toolkit is OEMed by the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Unix System Labs . |
| 22 | Foster City , California-based nCube Corp , majority-owned by the co-founders of Oracle Corp , surely wins the TeraFLOPS-boasting prize , with the launch next week of the 6.5 TFLOPS nCube 3 , its third-generation general-purpose hypercube supercomputer — see front page . |
| 23 | Like Jonah , we are all storm-tossed by the seas of life , undergo apparent death and certain burial , but then attain a blinding resurrection as the car-ferry doors swing open and we are delivered back into the light and into a recognition of God 's love . |
| 24 | Bernard had always been intrigued by the possibilities of photography — Cartier-Bresson being an early idol as much as Hemingway now he had an opportunity to indulge his aspirations . |
| 25 | He and his colleagues were intrigued by the aromas of cedarwood and myrrh which were still perceptible on the inner bandages after nearly 3,000 years ! |
| 26 | But if Eisenhower and Dulles were frustrated and disappointed , they were also impressed by the divisions of opinion within the United States and among their allies on the subject of Indo-China . |
| 27 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |
| 28 | But the number of people that I 've had in erm both customers and visitors like yourselves , that have been so impressed by the standards of housekeeping and cleanliness and tidiness , for an engineering facility . |
| 29 | The relationship flourished following a visit to Moscow by Sun 's Bill Joy and John Gage in October 1990 — Sun was impressed by the levels of reliability and miniaturisation , combined with a close integration of hardware and software that Elvis+ has brought to wireless networking . |
| 30 | At the end of Precambrian times , one can not but be impressed by the similarities of deposits such as the Eocambrian of Greenland , the Swedish Jotnian , the Scottish Torridonian and the French Brioverian . |