Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the distinction were not acknowledged , faith would inevitably find itself eroded and embarrassed by the ineluctable facts of history . |
| 2 | I 've yet to meet one who is n't engrossed in comparing his talent with other guitarists or who is n't frustrated or embarrassed by the fiscal constraints on the equipment he uses . |
| 3 | The NME 's owners , IPC Magazines , rapidly became delighted by the paper 's status and profitability but occasionally embarrassed by the weekly outpourings of radical dementia , its enthusiasm for all ( ahem ) manifestations or rock culture and its ( ahem again ) colourful , demotic language . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what is the latest figure for the number of council properties left empty by the 10 councils with the most such properties . |
| 5 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 6 | In this section and the following ones I am concerned with the ‘ shape ’ of the Belfast speech community as a whole , and in particular with a kind of patterning that is not directly accessible by the classic methods of Labov ( 1966 ) . |
| 7 | Amazingly , this church was left untouched by the Swedish troops in 1648 , a miracle ascribed to the Bambino Gesù . |
| 8 | In every State the mass of the uneducated and a large fraction of the educated were deeply hostile to change , quite untouched by the intellectual currents of the Enlightenment and intensely suspicious of any government-inspired innovation . |
| 9 | If provision is to be made ( Clause 20.02.5 ) for retentions from the amount due on account of tax liabilities or compensation for damage caused to the firm by the outgoing partner ( a somewhat controversial matter , but one which might be considered , for example , in relation to increased indemnity insurance premiums becoming payable by the continuing partners as a result of the negligence of the outgoing partner ) the terms must be set out with clarity . |
| 10 | Cita Lemminkaïnen , the tall , rather attractive Finn , half-hidden by the white overalls of Judith Steinway , was sipping a juice . |
| 11 | Since he has only been a director since last May , Wanless is untainted by the strategic mistakes of the past regime . |
| 12 | He gave detailed instructions for the procedure to be followed if no suitable dissertations were submitted , concluding : ‘ But if no such dissertations , worthy , in the opinion of the said Examiners , of any such reward as aforesaid should be offered for seven years , then a Medal , to be purchased with the said accumulations , shall be offered for the best dissertation on any Veterinary subject thought worthy by the said Examiners of such reward , but at all times the Foot of the Horse is to be the subject preferred , and next to that the nature , causes and treatment of Glanders , and the diseases of the Eye in horses : And if there should be no successful dissertation at the end of seven years , then the amount of the said accumulations shall be disposed of by the said Governors in such manner as they in their discretion may think proper , so as they are applied for the promotion of Veterinary Science ’ . |
| 13 | This bouquet is partly inherited , and so the bloodhound can occasionally be confused by the criss-crossing trails of identical twins . |
| 14 | It will be realised that the interpretation of deltas is partly a question of geomorphology , involving form and the use of historical records , but the sediment succession is really only explicable by the detailed methods of Pleistocene stratigraphy . |
| 15 | Like any other youth , I was thrilled by the annual visits of the big circus , and when the Al G. Barnes Circus came to town I paid my own way in to the ‘ show ’ and sat up that night writing the first big-top review for the Times-Herald , which Fred Workman accepted with alacrity . |
| 16 | Wrangham 's ( 1975 , 1977 ) research at the Gombe Stream reserve , a locality originally made famous by the pioneering efforts of Jane Goodall on the chimpanzee , has clarified many mysteries presented by contrasts between the Gombe findings and those of Japanese workers in the Mahali Mountains elsewhere in Tanzania . |
| 17 | Our author , entirely uninfluenced by the dismissive judgements of her distinguished compatriots Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob , hankers after evidence that lends colour to the possibility in principle of an imprinting of somatic characteristics upon the genome , believing in particular that the comparatively recent discovery of the possibility of mapping RNA upon DNA ( ’ reverse transcription ’ ) entitles her to think in terms of ‘ reverse translation ’ — that is a mapping of amino acid into nucleotide sequences . |
| 18 | Bologna was the greatest of the law " schools " by the middle of the twelfth century , unrivalled by the older schools of law at Rome , Pavia and Ravenna . |
| 19 | Dripping with sweat and disoriented by the jocular fusillades of the locals , vying to zap the master , Robin rushed into the wings . |
| 20 | This was too much even for men still undisturbed by the first stirrings of the women 's movement . |
| 21 | ‘ Besides , my young friend here is intrigued by the archaeological implications of our situation . ’ |
| 22 | Still anxious to pursue her nursing studies , she toured America and was impressed by the advanced ideas of Dr Palmer Howard , who held that nurses must be educated in the manner of medical students . |
| 23 | Late in his reign , the Shah was even said to have been impressed by the liberalizing efforts of King Juan Carlos in Spain . |
| 24 | Pat McKenzie , Lending Services VISCOUNT Officer , said : ‘ Most people who attended the demonstrations were impressed by the potential benefits for their libraries and for their users , and felt that the system would be easy to operate ’ . |
| 25 | It was both extended and refined by the successive reports of the Development Team for the mentally handicapped and through the work of Simon . |
| 26 | In northern Europe , however , factors such as population growth , urbanisation and industrialisation during the latter half of the nineteenth century produced a gradual change of heart , although the initial move towards the idea of protecting natural wilderness was encouraged primarily by European sportsmen who became concerned by the diminishing herds of game animals in the colonies ( MacKenzie , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | The committee has been concerned by the high numbers of planning applications granted by six Welsh councils in defiance of published development plans . |
| 28 | I 'm not a fast or very good sketcher , evident by the early stages of the demonstration piece ! |
| 29 | I 'm not a fast or very good sketcher , evident by the early stages of the demonstration piece ! |
| 30 | The only common interest of these ‘ southern ’ countries is their general view that they are being more or less exploited by the rich countries of the ‘ north ’ . |