Example sentences of "is [adv] illustrate by " in BNC.

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1 The change is strikingly illustrated by the number of surviving political bonds .
2 The rationale here is colourfully illustrated by Lord Ellenborough 's dictum in Gardiner v Gray ( 1815 ) 4 Camp 144 to the effect that a person does not buy goods simply for the pleasure of depositing them on a dunghill .
3 The madness of all this is constantly illustrated by a jumbled host of fragmentary images that surround us , of body hair and smells and leakings , of panty liners , bikini lines and cellulite .
4 The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners ' strike of 1984–85 .
5 The point is nicely illustrated by one case where the Central Electricity Generating Board unsuccessfully sought a court order to require the Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall to compel his officers to remove or assist the Board in removing people obstructing a survey site .
6 The benefit of such consolidations — or perhaps more accurately the disadvantage of not treating a customer in his entirety — is nicely illustrated by my own personal experience with a highly respected financial services provider .
7 The fact that such an ‘ Expressive Revolution ’ is not unrelated to other , much more obviously parricidal ones , and that all of these insurrections against cultural restraint can be traced to childhood failures in the acquisition of the superego is nicely illustrated by an Italian terrorist who , having put his revolutionary ideology into practice by murdering seventeen people and kidnapping an American general , justified his activities at his trial by proudly explaining that ‘ My challenge began from the school benches of Centocelle [ his home town ] .
8 This places enormous pressure on famous monuments and landscapes , as is starkly illustrated by the severe erosion in parts of the Lake District , the Peak District and Snowdonia .
9 The difference is best illustrated by a case example .
10 The point is best illustrated by reference to specific examples under the existing United Kingdom constitution .
11 This is best illustrated by an example .
12 The answer is best illustrated by explaining the steps which DOS follows after you type in a program or command name at the DOS prompt .
13 This is best illustrated by reference to Article 1 of the Protocol .
14 This is best illustrated by considering the flow of information through the various stages of recognition , as shown in Figure 3.1 .
15 With an advertisement you will often have to decide whether it is best illustrated by a drawing or a photograph .
16 The range of humane and other qualities most admired is best illustrated by the contents of the few obituaries carried in its pages .
17 The nature of this " representative function " is best illustrated by considering the kind of student which Bateson wishes university English to produce .
18 The procedure is best illustrated by means of a numerical example : we choose A to be the matrix of ( 2.10.2.16 ) .
19 How mental schemata operate in discourse production and comprehension is best illustrated by an example .
20 The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy .
21 The next phase is best illustrated by statues from Attica .
22 The transition from classical elite theory to modern variants of elitism and to its mutant offshoot pluralism is best illustrated by reference to the work of Joseph Schumpeter , whose most important contribution to modern political theory is to provide the template for many theoretical efforts to reconcile the ‘ fundamental fact ’ of elitism with democratic theory .
23 The difficulty of applying life-style to marketing decisions is best illustrated by the " Yuppy " .
24 That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham .
25 The methodology is best illustrated by an example which is taken from Avison ( 1981 ) .
26 This is best illustrated by taking a hypothetical example .
27 It is best illustrated by the Crossman Diaries Case , A-G v Jonathan Cape Ltd [ 1976 ] QB 752 where the court would not prevent the publication of diaries of cabinet discussions on grounds of confidentiality after a period of ten years .
28 Things are n't so clear cut and straightforward as you think Wednesday and that message is best illustrated by looking at your financial affairs .
29 Things are n't so clear cut and straightforward as you think Wednesday and that message is best illustrated by looking at your financial affairs .
30 The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school is further illustrated by quoting from respondents interviewed by the author , though fewer of these took this position than were committed to a ‘ defence of kinship ’ view and their views tended to be less strongly and less explicitly-stated .
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