Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | All the country round about was owned by the Earls of Chesterfield , who resided at neighbouring Bretby House . |
| 32 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 33 | ( ii ) The plaintiffs contend that variation should be refused on the ground that the information which led the Bank of England to issue the section 39 notice became available to them as a result of a serious contempt of court committed by the defendants in breach of the injunction . |
| 34 | A Greek presence is attested by the altars to Astarte and Hercules and by a gold betrothal ring inscribed in Greek to Aemilia . |
| 35 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 36 | We are reminded by the silences in Leapor 's texts that the pursuit of happiness as an enabling myth , in terms of official precept accessible to women through romantic love and marriage , remains in this period largely a privilege of bourgeois male subjects . |
| 37 | The nationalisation programme was soon to be regarded as failing to tackle many of the country 's more fundamental economic problems , such as the still heavy reliance of the old industrial areas upon a narrow range of traditional industries — a reliance , if anything , re-emphasised by the needs of war — and the chronic problems of poor management , the commercial application of new technology , and industrial relations . |
| 38 | A visit to the Minotaur 's lair : Poppy Holden is captivated by the layers of life on the island of Crete |
| 39 | Perpetually subdued by the rigours of behaviour , and almost unable to express himself outside the vernaculars of Hunting , Racing , Shooting , Fishing and Cricket , he had never been able to make his case against Nico : " Awful , awful " was the best he could do . |
| 40 | Before this was achieved , where the new town governors ' literacy proved too feeble to cope with challenges , it could be supplemented by the skills of notaries like Galbert of Bruges . |
| 41 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 42 | We will be tracing its pervasive effects below , firstly in relation to the largely untrammelled sentencing powers that have traditionally been enjoyed by the courts in England , and secondly in inhibiting policy initiatives that have sought to substitute an element of strategic planning for the policy vacuum that continues to characterize the English sentencing system . |
| 43 | Many of the powers of arrest enjoyed by the police in relation to civil liberties are , therefore , untrammelled by the restrictions introduced in the 1984 law . |
| 44 | A large number of the old lime trees were felled by the gales in October 1987 , but young limes have been placed in those same positions in order to preserve the avenue . |
| 45 | In 1884 , sightings of a submarine eruption were reported by the officers of ships , right in the middle of the ocean , half-way between Ireland and Newfoundland . |
| 46 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 47 | However , the medical advances were made , and so were many other scientific discoveries , impelled by the necessities of war . |
| 48 | Viewers did not seem to be repelled by the complexities of procedures — in fact many were intrigued — but there had been reaction to the sight of empty benches . |
| 49 | Topographic features are degraded by the impacts of bodies smaller than a few millimetres , by finely divided ejecta , by the solar wind and by seismic waves . |
| 50 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 51 | This conflictive relationship between popular culture and official culture manifests itself in Augusto Roa Bastos 's Son of Man , in the life-sized figure of Christ carved by a leper , which , despite the disapproval of the ecclesiastical authorities , is venerated by the townsfolk of Itapé in preference to the stylized crucifix in the local church . |
| 52 | Buying the rights to use a section from a feature film , or even an off-cut from a film , was , and remains , a standard practice open to Directors confined by the limits of budgeting . |
| 53 | Later he wrote , " I was completely overwhelmed by the expressions of loyalty given to me when I left . |
| 54 | Sandwiched between the sufferers and the directors or managers of the institution in which they work ( or overwhelmed by the pressures of survival if they work on their own ) they may expect or be expected to carry and solve the burdens of both . |
| 55 | Well there is n't actually regrettably there is so much personal debt within the City , and the problem is rising to such an extent that all the bodies that provide money advice , including for example the Citizens ' Advice Bureau , which we also fund , are overwhelmed by the numbers of people coming to them . |
| 56 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 57 | This regressive nature of the community charge is modified by the systems of rebates and exemptions . |
| 58 | In other words , conscience begins to have marked effect , as the attitudes and strictures of which the child has bad experience during its upbringing are supported or modified by the beginnings of life within society , and is built into the sexual persona of the boy or girl ( increasingly meaningful terms at this stage ) which the child now finds itself to be . |
| 59 | And they had to concern themselves with the possibility of igniting even greater disturbances which could not be contained by the forces at hand . |
| 60 | He was breathing the words against her skin , his voice muffled by the folds of cotton he had pushed aside to enable his mouth to cherish the tender apices of her pale breasts . |