Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
2 | It needs to be emphasised that in marking intonation , only stressed syllables are marked ; this implies that intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit and that the pitch of unstressed syllables is either predictable from that of stressed syllables or is of so little importance that it is not worth marking . |
3 | It is possible to argue against this view : in Chapters 10 and 11 , word stress was presented as something quite independent of intonation , and subsequently ( p. 157 ) it was said that ‘ intonation is carried entirely by the stressed syllables of a tone-unit ’ . |
4 | This was music in which note-values were determined entirely by the prosodic quantities of the text , so that note-against-note setting was inevitable . |
5 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
6 | When once the German impetus had exhausted itself , ground down by the lethal barrages from the Bois Bourrus guns , the inevitable French riposte would — within 24 hours — push the survivors back again . |
7 | Development in the Third World has stalled , ground down by the relentless wheels of the global economic machine . |
8 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
9 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |
10 | These were thrown down by the Persian invaders in 480 , and shattered remains preserved for us in terraces and foundations of the fifth century . |
11 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
12 | Unfortunately , the articulate voices of anger get shouted down by the bad boys in the back of the room : NWA outsells Fishbone and the Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy by about 50 to one over here . |
13 | The " marker " price of North Sea Brent crude , which had already risen by 60 per cent in six weeks to $24 per barrel on Aug. 3 , passed $30 per barrel on Aug. 22 , with production down by the 4,000,000 barrels per day of lost Iraqi and Saudi production . |
14 | The 1992 world champion had been in a subdued mood all weekend and it was clear he was being worn down by the continuing rumours over his future . |
15 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
16 | Horace Walpole also had a villa at Twickenham , Strawberry Hill ; but he seems to have been inspired less by the Palladian principles of his neighbour 's house than by Pope 's grotto and the sensations of his garden . |
17 | I trust you will look favourably on both these applications and on any others that may be sent in by the various organisations within the village . |
18 | expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right . |
19 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
20 | In silence they passed down the grandness of Whitehall , hemmed in by the blank facades of bureaucracy , ministries where men and women toiled in cold obscurity . |
21 | ( There is another argument , nowadays timidly advanced only by a few academics of the old hair-shirt tendency , that the white man has fixed the game , making it almost impossible for the others to get in . ) |
22 | His face was flat and wide , clean , the skin marked only by a few freckles on the right cheek , the eyes set far apart and shallow in their sockets . |
23 | His patronage was extended not only by the forfeited estates of Lancaster , Badlesmere and the Contrariants but also by the confiscated temporalities of bishops such as Langton ( at the beginning of the reign ) and Stratford , Orleton and Burghersh ( at the end ) . |
24 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
25 | The debate has been marred only by the snide remarks of the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) about my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham ( Mr. Grant ) . |
26 | Apart from fire opals , which can stand being faceted , opals can be prepared for jewellery only by the age-old techniques of grinding and smoothing , owing to their tendency to crack . |
27 | An ever increasing flow of economic data has been matched only by the multifarious ways in which it can be interpreted and applied in relation to economic policy . |
28 | There was a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs at her feet . |
29 | At a few selected points , the particles crash together head-on , generating energy of an intensity matched only by the first moments of the explosion physicists believe created the universe . |
30 | For example , the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century was constituted not only by the new theories of Descartes , Galileo and Newton but also by new ways of experiencing the world , interacting with it and thinking about it . |