Example sentences of "[vb past] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But should the barrels stay missing for a while , they are not likely to be posing much of a health hazard — at least , not nearly as much as that posed by the tonnes of poison whose storage , legal or otherwise , is now going to be looked into . |
| 2 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 3 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 4 | Yes , the Safrane V6 is a big step in the right direction , but judged by the standards of Renault 's recent efforts , it could have been better . |
| 5 | There is a pretty conservatory where meals are served , a large , colourful garden and several interesting outbuildings such as the 17th-century half-timbered stable block which has been converted to provide four bedrooms , and the cellar , bread oven and fishpond dug by the monks from Bordesley Abbey . |
| 6 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 7 | The tacksmen , he told Johnson , were emigrating , unable to comply with the exorbitant rents demanded by the lairds and deluded by the dreams of wealth they had promised their own tenants . |
| 8 | Sanctioned or authorized by law or right , lawful , proper ; ( c ) normal , regular ; conformable to a recognized standard type ; ( d ) sanctioned by the laws of reasoning ; logically admissible or inferable . |
| 9 | It is worth emphasising that the period spanned by the lives of El Greco and Velázquez saw in Latin America the consolidation of colonial government and of the Christian church , the establishment of the Spanish language and of European culture , the introduction of new methods of exploitation of people and resources . |
| 10 | The sense of adventure felt by the pioneers of flight still remains with those who carry on the tradition of ballooning today . |
| 11 | He decided to make Maurice understood by the undergraduates of Durham University . |
| 12 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |
| 13 | It was an enormous humiliation and Galileo was left a broken man , almost mentally deranged by the months of pressure . |
| 14 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 15 | And nothing in these accounts , whether familiar or otherwise , is compatible with the myths peddled by the merchants of nostalgia . |
| 16 | Following the example of George Müller [ q.v. ] , and his own highly original survival training in Hull , he lived by the principles of faith and prayer on which he later built his mission : never appealing for funds except to God , and administering all gifts with scrupulous stewardship . |
| 17 | New environmental enclosures could be created to demonstrate the conditions ( soil , temperature , humidity , light , diurnal and seasonal fluctuations etc. ) experienced by the plants of Dhofar , for example . |
| 18 | ( avoiding the word " but " ) , the sufferer is presented with clear choices that have been discussed and agreed by the participants in advance . |
| 19 | Thus RENFE unions achieved a position of influence over the day-to-day organization of railway work comparable to that exerted by the unions in BR . |
| 20 | As late as 1191 the tomb of Rosamund Clifford — Henry 's " Fair Rosamund " , who died in 1176 — was still covered in silk cloth and tended by the nuns of Godstow Priory in accordance with the terms of Henry 's benefaction to their nunnery . |