Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is indeed the landscape of one 's dreams , a paradise still largely untouched and unspoiled by the activities of man . |
| 5 | Netwise 's RPC Toolkit is OEMed by the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Unix System Labs . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Could this be the secret passageway to the Litani , groined by the forces of Christendom to escape from their ancient predicament ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In a letter to his wife , the latter described Stirling as ‘ a gentleman obsessed by the pleasures of chance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Similarly they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest partisan voters find the relative impartiality of television news somewhat irritating . |
| 20 | Martin-Jenkins told his readers : ‘ Pakistan are far from damaged by the allegations of ball-tampering . |
| 21 | But the Founders ' vote for Manchester was also supported by Walsh , who was excited by the possibilities of fund-raising from the northern councils . |
| 22 | The Formalist principle whereby ‘ the forms of art are explainable by the laws of art ; they are not justified by their realism ’ ( Shklovsky 1965b : 57 ) is manifest in almost every aspect of Sterne 's novel and does not have to be inferred from it by analysis ( as perhaps it does in Gogol 's Overcoat ) . |
| 23 | It is issued to passengers whose flights have been cancelled or delayed and is redeemable by the airlines at face value . |
| 24 | Adult education , unencumbered by the constraints of certification and examination , has been a popular breeding-ground for courses which focus on women 's cultural and political ideas and activities . |
| 25 | It is a voice unaffected by the changes in articulation which have taken place since the 1930s . |
| 26 | Per curiam. ( i ) It would be wrong for police officers to adopt or use an undercover pose or disguise to enable themselves to ask questions about an offence uninhibited by the requirements of Code C and with the effect of circumventing it ; were they to do so it would be open to the judge to exclude the questions and answers under section 78 of the Act of 1984 ( post , p. 237E–F ) . |
| 27 | If this tableau of LP ( w 1 , … , w p ) is optimal ( ) for positive weights , then the BFS is optimal and hence efficient by the results of Section 9.3 . |
| 28 | Since there is no necessary chemical connection between the substances which bind to allosteric proteins , and the chemical reactions those proteins catalyse , it follows that the results of metabolism , although fully interpretable by the laws of chemistry , are not dictated by those laws , but by the physiological needs of the organism , and ultimately by natural selection . |
| 29 | Thirdly , both arid and glacial climates leave the landforms bare and almost devoid of vegetation and , since the regions as a rule are infertile , natural forms are left unobscured by the activities of man . |
| 30 | So does his use of omens and prophecies — a feature of The Lord of the Rings which may furthermore seem to deny the idea of free will being left intact by the forces of providence . |