Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fly over the solitary rock washed by the glacial tears of sorrow , let there be at your passing , a radiant beam over the gloomy solitary rock . |
| 2 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 3 | At the level of village life , this pattern provides stability and cohesion , for villagers are interlinked by the criss-crossing relationships of compadrazgo . |
| 4 | Heavy fighting continued notwithstanding yet another ceasefire agreement signed by the warring factions on Dec. 13 , providing also for humanitarian corridors to be opened to evacuate the Sarajevo population . |
| 5 | Delving in the archives one is struck by the frequent references to shortage of funds , a situation which , unfortunately , still applies today . |
| 6 | At a time when the party leadership was dominated by the sectarian views of Barbe and Celor , such reticence can not simply be explained by a sense of personal solidarity on the part of Thorez , and especially Vaillant-Couturier , for Barbusse . |
| 7 | We have been approached by the leader of a Youth Club who organises displays by the young girls in flag waving and club swinging . |
| 8 | 27 year old Corporal Staples is well respected by the young men from Dalton Barracks , in Abingdon . |
| 9 | The ethos of conflict avoidance has also promoted a propensity on the part of both management and unions , and encouraged by the political concerns of governments , to avoid major industrial action . |
| 10 | they were highly organised and ideologised and , prompted by a sympathetic political situation and finally by the political actions of management , they became a powerful militant force . |
| 11 | Ceramic materials may take over the role of cobalt in magnets , a move stimulated by the political upheavals in Zaire in 1978 , which forced up the price of the metal and made many manufacturers look for substitutes . |
| 12 | Thus the different socio-political contexts were mobilized by the political parties of protest in different ways , producing a more complex electoral geography than would have been the case if Wales had a uniform political culture . |
| 13 | Communicators are restrained by other forces : by shared ethical assumptions , by non-legal rules which find favour with the Press Council and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission , by pressure from advertisers , by the political predilections of proprietors , and by the host of subjective considerations which go to make up " editorial discretion " . |
| 14 | The heterogeneity of French solo song at the beginning of the century is shown by the six books of Airs de différents autheurs published by the lutenist Gabriel Bataille ( 1575–1630 ) during 1609–15 ; each book consists partly of his own compositions , partly of airs de cour and psalm-settings by Pierre Guedron ( d. 1621 ) , Le Jeune 's successor as Compositeur de la chambre du Roi , Guedron 's son-in-law Antoine Boesset ( 1586–1643 ) , the elderly Mauduit , and others . |
| 15 | These often show a winter profile combed down into a series of bars and troughs caused by the destructive waves of winter storms and a steeper summer profile with a large inshore berm built up by swell waves of constructive type . |
| 16 | Requests by the Baltic states of Lithuania , Latvia and Estonia for observer status were rejected , the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky reminding the delegates that only sovereign states could be represented . |
| 17 | During one of the indiscriminate assaults by the murderous flocks of birds the screaming inhabitants of the town ran to and fro in a vain attempt to ward off their attackers . |
| 18 | ( a ) Conventions are non-legal rules of constitutional behaviour which are considered to be binding upon those who operate the constitution but which are not enforced by the courts or by the presiding officers in Parliament . |
| 19 | In due course , however , they began to be influenced by the astrological beliefs of converts from paganism ; as a result , they adopted the planetary week . |
| 20 | All this they did to please God , who had since the foundation of the Christian Church , been plagued by the gaudy contrivances of man . ’ |
| 21 | Universities do not have enough money for urgently needed repairs claims a report published by the Lay Chairmen of University Councils . |
| 22 | A complete contrast to this story of stability and continuity is provided by the successive owners of Balderton Hall , an Elizabethan timber-framed dwelling that still stands a mile or so to the east of Myddle village . |
| 23 | The movement of the tide is well illustrated by the successive books of Monteverdi 's madrigals . |
| 24 | Cocaine is traded openly in the favelas , which are ruled by the semi-fascist authorities of drug dealers . |
| 25 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 26 | Edward 's coup was not , therefore , followed by the lavish displays of patronage which had followed Edward II 's victory in 1322 or the triumph of Mortimer and Isabella in 1327 , and there was no immediate and general reversal of the judgements of 1326–7 . |
| 27 | Great as his victory had been , London was not quite ready for a twenty-foot high anatomically accurate Achilles , especially as the statue had been commissioned and paid for by the grateful women of England . |
| 28 | This is not a sentimental journey in quest of ways and means of making life easier for the offender , but a realistic attempt to tackle the economic problem of saving the community from the losses and suffering caused by the anti-social activities of criminals . |
| 29 | Indeed , the general conception of the cosmic process envisaged by the ancient inhabitants of Mesopotamia precluded the possibility of history having any ultimate significance or purpose . |
| 30 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |