Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because these histories did n't have any singularities or any beginning or end , what happened in them would be determined entirely by the laws of physics . |
| 2 | Quite the opposite , it was an association of two men wholly different in character and outlook , brought together by the circumstances of Anselm 's exile . |
| 3 | Judged by the highest standards there may have some stiffness in the rhythm , some slack articulation of the words and some raucous tone from certain voices , yet , urged on by the dynamic playing of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra , and especially by the cohorts of percussion , the singing was exhilarating . |
| 4 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 5 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 6 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 7 | Supervision is the process of the laying down by the courts of guidelines for the development of legal principles . |
| 8 | The personal estate was distributed in accordance with rules laid down by the Statutes of Distribution of Charles II 's and James II's reigns . |
| 9 | ‘ Can you bear to be held down by the bonds of marriage ? |
| 10 | We know , for example , that for much of that period , places such as the lower Ouse Valley and the lower Arran and Ada Valleys were in fact flooded arms of the sea and that the sediment brought down by the rivers of Sussex from inland , along with deposition by the sea in the quiet waters within those estuary-type areas , has gradually in-filled them . |
| 11 | Satan , however , will not recognise his defeat until forced to do so by the servants of Christ . |
| 12 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 13 | Opposite was the site of the Royal Palace lived in by the kings of Bohemia from the Hussite Wars in 1419 , until King Vladislav reasserting the rights of kingship in 1484 , returned to the castle . |
| 14 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |
| 15 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 16 | The silence of the wild places should be disturbed only by the sounds of nature . |
| 17 | One day , if only by the laws of probability , the rumours will be proved right . |
| 18 | The rhythms of our daily speech and writing are haunted not only by the rhythms of nursery rhymes , but also by the rhythms of Shakespeare , Blake , Edward Lear , Lewis Carroll , the Authorised Version of the Bible . |
| 19 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 20 | Miles flew by in the barren landscape , punctuated only by the carcasses of kangaroos on the line . |
| 21 | For some years they stood largely empty , occupied only by the ghosts of yesteryear , prey to vandals , fire and decay . |
| 22 | The alternative and , in the last resort , not so very different view is that which sees the Hundred Years War as a wider civil war in which a policy of royal centralisation , based on Paris , was opposed not only by the dukes of Aquitaine and Normandy ( in both cases king of England ) , but by those of Brittany , and ( late in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ) , Burgundy . |
| 23 | To the romantic Jesus expresses his hunger and desire to live only by the words of God . |
| 24 | Coleridge thought The Borderers ‘ absolutely wonderful ’ , and surrounded only by the distractions of friendship and a lovely , unfamiliar countryside , found time at Racedown to make progress with his own play , Wordsworth providing the necessary encouragement as well as some ‘ strict & almost severe ’ criticism . |
| 25 | Their rivalries were not washed away by the flows of commerce and finance . |
| 26 | The corpse of a zebra , under the camera 's necessarily impassive gaze ( some viewers are queasier ) , is reduced almost to a skeleton as skin and then flesh are progressively stripped away by the processes of nature . |
| 27 | Trees of a pendulous habit are for streams and riversides where their fallen leaves can be whisked away by the rains of autumn and winter . |
| 28 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 29 | The media education movement in South East Asia , WACC 's most active media education programme , is sustained largely by the efforts of women . |
| 30 | So , without a Great Detective , or even a lesser detective of the fictional breed , you will find that the clearing up of the mystery , which still must be presented with an air of progress , will be carried out not largely by the processes of ratiocination ( that word invented by Edgar Allan Poe ) but by the duller process of the accumulation of facts , as in real life . |