Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Passionate debate is provoked by the problems of children whose first language is not English . |
| 3 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His argument is that medicine rests on the discovery of natural laws while legal norms derive from decisions , influenced by the actions of lawyers themselves . |
| 6 | It is a voice unaffected by the changes in articulation which have taken place since the 1930s . |
| 7 | The wardens of Inglewood took ‘ escapes ’ - or fines paid by the owners of animals which had strayed into forbidden parts of the forest . |
| 8 | Indeed , the reason for the greater frequency of chronic diarrhoea in this study in comparison with others in the United Kingdom , may be partly explained by the subgroups of children who had recently travelled abroad and those who had an itinerant existance . |
| 9 | The labour market disadvantages of people with disabilities have been largely caused by unequal treatment institutional discrimination and structural barriers to equal opportunity , rather than by the limitations of disability itself . |
| 10 | The name of the plant describes its historical use by the ladies of Venice who used the plant in the belief that its property of dilating the pupil of the eye converted them into lustrous wide-eyed beauties . |
| 11 | It was here that the Princess was presented with a bonnet of straw-plait made by the ladies of Swanage who stayed up all night to finish it before the royal party left next day from the Quay to join the Royal Yacht in the Bay . |
| 12 | By the looks of Carla she had not had a decent meal for weeks . |
| 13 | The division of the national press into ‘ quality ’ and ‘ popular ’ papers was one of content as well as circulation , and it was itself largely a result of the higher advertising rates chargeable by the papers with readers who had more money to spend ( not necessarily their own ) . |
| 14 | Then to the tune of ‘ By the waters of Babylon I sat down and wept ’ , we sang another version of the words . |
| 15 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 16 | It was described by Bishop Pontoppidan in the eighteenth century as being over a mile and a half in circumference ; he also said the sea all around it was darkened by the jets of ink it spat out . |
| 17 | There had been a house here before , built by the Pagets on land they had bought from Burton Abbey . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Let us hope that G1S can , in some small way , help mitigate the suffering and hardship felt by all those afflicted by the effects of hazards which , as we have learnt with bitter recent experience in the UK , can occur in an untimely fashion in the most improbable of places . |
| 20 | Perhaps the thorniest problems of all were those created by the aspirations of regions whose linguistic and cultural identities were actually distinct from those of Spain , or more properly of Castile . |
| 21 | The leaders remain haunted by the forces of dissent they ordered the army to crush . |
| 22 | The aim of this thesis is to explore the memories that drivers have for everyday driving situations and to decide how such memories may be affected by the feelings of risk they experienced in the situation . |
| 23 | This is a racist discourse profoundly marked by the fractures of identity which produced it , and consequently one whose internal contradictions are both more explicitly articulated and more strongly disavowed . |
| 24 | On the design side , besides herself , there were two assistant designers , Leo and Kerry , both younger than herself , and both , judging by the samples of work they showed Lisa , highly competent in the tasks of pattern-making and fitting , but not quite up to producing original designs themselves . |
| 25 | Shop steward 's chairman who was one of a delegation of six who later had a meeting with Minister for Energy Tim Eggar , said : ‘ We were encouraged by the promises of support we got from the MPs and the Minister has said he will look at the pension scheme position . ’ |
| 26 | If my dreams could be named by the promises of angels what dreams would they be ? |
| 27 | This attack , which made inevitable the outbreak of a great European war ( see p. 298 ) was in part provoked by the contents of documents which a Saxon government clerk had been bribed to betray to the Prussians . |
| 28 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 29 | Each quotation describes a journey in a carriage taken by the protagonists of works which are in many cases those whose titles bear their names : Emma , Madame Bovary , Clarissa , etc . |
| 30 | The king-duke 's rights had therefore to be defended by his proctors at Paris and , above all , by the seneschals of Aquitaine themselves . |