Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [noun pl] of [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 | Could this be the secret passageway to the Litani , groined by the forces of Christendom to escape from their ancient predicament ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In a letter to his wife , the latter described Stirling as ‘ a gentleman obsessed by the pleasures of chance . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Similarly they must be pleased by the traces of evidence that suggest partisan voters find the relative impartiality of television news somewhat irritating . |
| 18 | Martin-Jenkins told his readers : ‘ Pakistan are far from damaged by the allegations of ball-tampering . |
| 19 | But the Founders ' vote for Manchester was also supported by Walsh , who was excited by the possibilities of fund-raising from the northern councils . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I also take the opportunity to inform him and the House that the people of Leicestershire have been shattered and appalled by the relevations of abuse in our children 's homes . |
| 28 | Without the emergence of Hitler and his National Socialists all that was rotten in Germany , that had been positively fostered by Romanticism and encouraged by the humiliation that Germany had suffered under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles — racism , social Darwinism , anti-intellectualism , phoney mysticism — might have persisted indefinitely and gradually eaten away the fabric of the country and its culture , gone unchallenged by the forces of reason , lain for all time under layers of sophistry . … |
| 29 | If an individual is aggrieved by the actions of government , a public body , or certain domestic tribunals or associations , he may claim that there has been a breach of natural justice . |
| 30 | Rufus had been astonished by the quantities of junk in that house , the ornaments and knick-knacks and stuff like vases and candlesticks and ashtrays and glass and brass that Hilbert Verne-Smith and his wife had accumulated over the years . |