Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And in addition to all these again , there are thousands of kinds of habitat or potential habitat — created consciously or inadvertantly by the activities of human beings .
2 The vaginal nerves are directly affected , the clitoris — which is much more sensitive — is affected either directly , if the position and angle of entry allow , or indirectly by the movements of the folds of flesh surrounding it .
3 2.11 In practice most claims under the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 are brought by a widow or widower on behalf of herself or himself and their children , or sometimes by the parents of an unmarried son or daughter who was contributing to their support .
4 The origin of life on a planet can be a very improbable event indeed by our everyday standards , or indeed by the standards of the chemistry laboratory , and still be sufficiently probable to have occurred , not just once but many times , all over the universe .
5 Judged by the highest standards there may have some stiffness in the rhythm , some slack articulation of the words and some raucous tone from certain voices , yet , urged on by the dynamic playing of the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra , and especially by the cohorts of percussion , the singing was exhilarating .
6 This would mean that in the absence of clear words , the terms of the hypothetical letting would be dictated by the market at the review date , and not by the terms of the lease .
7 But both men and women in modernity have been too influenced by the romanticism of popular literature and supremely by the dreams of Hollywood .
8 On passing into the liquid solution the chain achieves relative freedom and can now change rapidly among a multitude of possible equi-energetic conformations , dictated partly by the chain flexibility and partly by the interactions with the solvent .
9 The location of European industry was dictated partly by the availability of capital and markets , which meant that countries which were rich before industrialization tended to become richer , and partly by the deposits of the raw materials , coal and iron .
10 The ordinary annual grant for restoration will be used up partly by the Laboratorio del Restauro in Palazzo Barberini , which recently restored Correggio 's Borghese ‘ Danae ’ , and partly by the needs of the five other museums which the Soprintendenza is responsible for : the Gallery in Palazzo Barberini , the Spada Gallery , the Corsini Gallery , the Museum of Musical Instruments and the Borghese Gallery .
11 In the United States union membership from the mid-1930s to 1947 was undoubtedly stimulated first by the 1935 Wagner Act and later by the actions of the War Labor Board in promoting collective bargaining and union recognition ( see Chapter 5 ) .
12 British higher education remained another source of national pride and complacency , with the high international standing of British universities and polytechnics generally assumed , even though the differential fees imposed on overseas students in Britain , first by the Callaghan government , and later by the Conservatives after 1979 , somewhat eroded this appeal .
13 Although evaluation is a complex issue , it is important in considering future development to ascertain whether day care is fulfilling its objectives as perceived both by the providers and also by the consumers of services .
14 Reasoning about diseases of the heart and blood vessels began to have a sound basis when , in the seventeenth century , William Harvey established that blood circulates from the heart , through arteries to the minute capillary vessels in every organ , and back by the veins to the heart .
15 Wheatley was heavily influenced by evidence given by the departments of the Scottish Office and particularly by the planners of the Scottish Development Department ( Keating and Midwinter 1983:97 ; Page 1983:44 ) .
16 There was a special problem in the fact that castles held by the Lusignan family and particularly by the Counts of Angoulême could at times hinder land communications between the Duke 's three administrative capitals , the old Roman and episcopal cities of Poitiers , Saintes and Bordeaux .
17 Far below us pine forest bearded the foothills , broken here and there by the scars of red roofed villages , sensibly sited well away from the vulnerable coast .
18 He was depicted as the sun , a young warrior who was born each day , defeated the stars of the night and was resurrected again and again by the souls of warriors in his care .
19 The rhythms of our daily speech and writing are haunted not only by the rhythms of nursery rhymes , but also by the rhythms of Shakespeare , Blake , Edward Lear , Lewis Carroll , the Authorised Version of the Bible .
20 Loyalist intransigence was bolstered not only by the new IRA campaign but also by the actions of three leading Fianna Fáil politicians in the South who were open and vocal in their support for the IRA .
21 The whole situation regarding the over-valuation of estates consisting of freehold and agricultural property by district valuers has now been highlighted , not only by the case of J Hedley Walton deceased v CIR , but also by the decisions of the Lands Tribunal in Exors of Lady Fox deceased v CIR .
22 Understanding the advertising business inside out is vital , for it is they who must be aware of all the numerous restraints imposed , not only by the advertising industry itself through the Advertising Standards Authority and The Independent Television Companies Association ( ITCA ) , but also by the manufacturers of products in sensitive areas .
23 Invading fans are not only repulsed by the occupants in defence of their home ‘ turf ’ , but also by the police in their pursuit of law and order and the status quo .
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