Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , however arbitrary musical meanings and conventions are — rather than being ‘ natural ’ , or determined by some human essence or by the needs of class expression — once particular musical elements are put together in particular ways , and acquire particular connotations , these can be hard to shift . |
| 2 | These are prepared by Counsel in a Court of Session action or by the solicitors in a Sheriff Court action , on the basis of the evidence on the insurance file . |
| 3 | The central theme of Hopscotch is the quest for the authenticity which Western man has lost , stifled by a distorting rationalism and by the conventions of the bourgeois social order . |
| 4 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 5 | on a cursory inspection and by the methods in current use , to consist of a number of interdependent sub-systems — the economy , the status system , the polity , the kinship systems and the institutions which have in their special custody the cultivation of cultural values Each of these sub-systems itself comprises a network of organisations which are connected , with varying degrees of affirmation , through a common authority , overlapping personnel , personal relationships , contracts , perceived identities of interest , a sense of affinity within a transcendent whole and a territorial location possessing a symbolic value . |
| 6 | I 'm not bothered either erm and he goes he goes , he goes I have n't got the best handwriting and by the looks of things neither has Mr it 's completely changed from the first three weekly you had . |
| 7 | Already in his first novel , Boccalone ( 1979 ) , widely recognized as the best to come out of the youth movement of the late 1970s , Palandri had shown an extraordinary ability to create sufficient space for his characters , ‘ enrico ’ and ‘ anna ’ and their friends , to speak for themselves without being overwhelmed by the surrounding clutter or by the pretensions of ‘ literature ’ , pretensions from which the narrator keeps his distance : ‘ I do n't want to make big speeches , I never did when I was with anna and I was better off ; I just want to recount incidents and let the rest come out of that , if there actually is anything ’ ( Palandri 1979 : 124 ) . |
| 8 | Its qualities were also appreciated by the Sumerians — carnelian rings formed part of the queen Pu-abi 's head-dress and by the citizens of the Indus Valley civilization . |
| 9 | In the former areas the chief executive is sustained in his perennial struggle for mastery with congress by his claim to represent the nation as a whole and by the provisions of the Constitution that designate him as Commander in Chief and give him special responsibilities in international relations . |
| 10 | The integration cause and its stress upon a broad economic approach were also aided by the current pattern of international trade and by the limitations of the OEEC , which could not sponsor any forward movement without the consent of all its members . |
| 11 | Under pressure from diminishing resources and central government exhortations , much greater emphasis is being placed on the careful targeting of policy measures to the places where people suffer from the most severe problems , as evidenced by the successive reviews of regional policy and by the initiatives of the 1970s and 1980s aimed at rejuvenating inner city areas . |
| 12 | In Sri Lanka the best specimens are always found on the shallower areas of the river-bed and by the water-pools by the river edges , where it is very muddy . |
| 13 | Treaty or by the Acts of Accession ; again such conflict should be avoided . |
| 14 | It was certainly much wider than the definition required by the local authority for an official notification of a violent incident or by the police for pressing charges of actual bodily harm . |
| 15 | In the period following the execution of the Demoiselles Picasso 's art was informed by two main principles or types of tribal art , the one flatter , more abstract and remote from European art , in which the basic planes of the face are differentiated not by relief but by the directions of the striations or hatchings with which they are covered , the other more solid , sculptural , three-dimensional and naturalistic . |
| 16 | The vast bulk of these were not caused by employees ' carelessness or stupidity but by the conditions under which they are obliged to work . |
| 17 | Individual chats by the coronary nurse and by the physiotherapists in the coronary unit can be supplemented by educational videos , so that the patients can begin to understand more about the nature of the condition . |
| 18 | Talks on the future of the Yugoslav federation began on July 22 in Ohrid , Macedonia , attended by the members of the Collective State Presidency and by the Presidents of the six republics . |
| 19 | ( b ) Every partner must account to his co-partners for his private profits This is recognised in s29 of the Partnership Act : ( 1 ) Every partner must account to the firm for any benefit derived by him without the consent of the other partners from any transaction concerning the partnership , or from any use by him of the partnership property name or business connexion. ( 2 ) This section applies also to transactions undertaken after a partnership has been dissolved by the death of a partner , and before the affairs thereof have been completely wound up , either by any surviving partner or by the representatives of the deceased partner . |
| 20 | Most of the men around the Shah were tied to him by fear , by devotion or by the tentacles of corruption . |