Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Supervision is the process of the laying down by the courts of guidelines for the development of legal principles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Can you bear to be held down by the bonds of marriage ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was a big undertaking , this farm , with hired hands on a permanent basis , so they were pretty well off by the standards of Baldersdale . |
| 13 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 14 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 15 | He was one of the seven magnates whose confederation in April 1258 began the revolution ; he was one of the baronial twelve who were to draw up the plans of reform ; and he was one of the council of fifteen set up by the Provisions of Oxford to govern England in the king 's name . |
| 16 | The stresses set up by the effects of heat and cold on the glass could have weakened it to the point that it may fracture under pressure in the aquarium . |
| 17 | The failure of the insurgents to secure the country 's political and economic nerve-centres , the provision of German and Italian military aid and the resistance put up by the defenders of Republican legality had turned the insurrection into a war whose duration or outcome no one could foretell . |
| 18 | We have the personal testimony of the South African Oxfam partner detained and tortured by security forces before being forced into exile ; the telex messages from Oxfam 's Mozambique office saying that South African-backed rebels have just burst into a hospital full of women and children and massacred over 400 ; and the telex that tells the dreary tale of Oxfam emergency relief trucks blown up by the agents of apartheid . |
| 19 | His tale was a sad one , backed up by the men of Lewes 's troop . |
| 20 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 21 | More than 70 British beaches have been omitted from the latest edition of the Marine Conservation Society 's authoritative Good Beach Guide after new research suggests that waters previously considered safe may in fact be hazardous to health The research , carried out by the Departments of Health and Environment , reveals that previous UK standards were too lax . |
| 22 | We were all of us outcasts ; we were all of us flung out by the Lords of Tara , who were jealous of their lineage and protective of their inheritance . |
| 23 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 24 | His music is the kind of accessible and easy listening fare churned out by the likes of Michael Bolton and Lionel Richie , who have both shifted considerable numbers of discs in European markets . |
| 25 | His wife , Mary , accompanied him on his early forays , but in 1862 , while travelling on the Zambezi , she caught a fever and died , worn out by the privations of travel and child bearing — her fifth child was born under a camel thorn bush on a trek through arid wastes of the interior ; her fourth child , born on an earlier trek , had lived only six weeks . |
| 26 | With the other , he would exploit the nuclear defence philosophy sketched out by the Chiefs of Staff in their 1952 Global Strategy paper to get rid of National Service . |
| 27 | The resolution then being flashed out by the amendments of Councillor and recognising the work of members of governing bodies given so freely . |
| 28 | Dowie had two chances to increase the lead after the interval , but just failed to reach a cross from Black and then saw a low shot kept out by the legs of goalkeeper Kapilarii . |
| 29 | In addition , the economies of the most advanced capitalist nations would advance to a point where any further development of production would be held back by the crises of capitalism and by the desire to produce for profit rather than the general good . |
| 30 | They tend to see people as unthinking dupes who arc simply pushed and pulled around by the needs of capital . |