Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This is indeed the landscape of one 's dreams , a paradise still largely untouched and unspoiled by the activities of man . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Unremarkable by the standards of police officers , that is . |
| 10 | Netwise 's RPC Toolkit is OEMed by the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Unix System Labs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I am very much , very greatly concerned by the traditions in bus garages and to the facts that er workers are out of work being their position at work be very considerably worse off . |
| 21 | Could this be the secret passageway to the Litani , groined by the forces of Christendom to escape from their ancient predicament ? |
| 22 | This can be particularly important in family-held groups , where holdings are often complicated by the workings of trusts and the family may be resident in several countries . |
| 23 | As the war in Europe reached its last stages , the task of making a lasting peace seemed certain to be complicated by the differences of policy , already apparent , between the Western Allies and the USSR . |
| 24 | This process is complicated by the differences in salary , qualification and experience which exist between field social workers who hold legal responsibility for such children and their residential colleagues who provide care for those children who are placed in children 's homes . |
| 25 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 26 | In a letter to his wife , the latter described Stirling as ‘ a gentleman obsessed by the pleasures of chance . |
| 27 | And what a despicable set of values — rendered all the more offensive by the revelations from Wall Street , London , Tokyo and Dublin , that the mandarins , gurus and executors of capitalism are as trustworthy as a fox guarding a chicken coop . |
| 28 | Indeed they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest that bias in a freely chosen medium such as a newspaper is actually popular with the electorate rather than resented . |
| 29 | Similarly they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest partisan voters find the relative impartiality of television news somewhat irritating . |
| 30 | Giugiaro continues to dominate Seat 's future product plans , giving the company the Latin feel deemed essential by the bosses at VW . |