Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | by the massifs of Bramsche and Vlotho ( Figs. 4 and 5 ) , where palaeogeothermal events of Upper Cretaceous age have determined the coalification pattern . |
| 2 | The French troops were hidden by the folds of ground and by the woods and high crops , but the smoke was evidence enough that thousands of men had closed on Frasnes in the night to support the battalion of French skirmishers who had been baulked the previous evening . |
| 3 | There is of course no need to be unduly alarmed at these discrepancies ; we should reflect that any normal language presents numerous instances where certain recalcitrant items refuse to fit into a generally acceptable pattern ( e.g. for no very obvious reason the " expected " adverbs difficultly and longly are not accepted in English and have to be replaced by the phrases with difficulty and for a long time . ) |
| 4 | For modern secular Western man , severed from his cultural roots by the processes of industrialisation and secularisation , Marxism makes a real appeal . |
| 5 | [ Gangland is ] isolated from the wider culture of the larger community by the processes of competition and conflict which have resulted in the selection of its population' . |
| 6 | They argue that the time period in which the heroin ‘ epidemic ’ runs its course has a fixed length , due to the speed at which this ‘ infectious behaviour ’ saturates the ‘ susceptible ’ population by the processes of microdiffusion and macrodiffusion . |
| 7 | They came together with pride and passion , each glorying in the belief that Hans Christian Andersen had been right and that their fairy-tale had indeed been written by the fingers of God and come to fruition in the Enchanted Garden that had captured the heart of a city . |
| 8 | Finally , it is fair to point out that sculpture selling at auction is restricted by the problems of size and security . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 11 | The pattern of AIDS research is also likely to be profoundly shaped by the events of the past few weeks , but more importantly by the articles by Fauci and Haase and their colleagues than by the preliminary report of the Anglo-French study . |
| 12 | Another lyric makes even more explicit this identification of life in time with the Crucifixion as the only means by which its true value may be realised : Such lyrics embody an understanding of the process of transfiguration at the heart of the Christian faith which is realised by the mystics in experience and gestured towards in their texts . |
| 13 | The first ground upon which recovery was sought was based upon the constitutional argument that since Parliament had not authorised the collection by the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the tax the corporation was entitled to recover the amounts illegally exacted from it . |
| 14 | The unenclosed wastes in Epping Forest were consequently reduced from 12,000 acres in 1777 to 3,500 acres in 1871 , by illegal enclosures by the lords of the forest manors , and by sale of Crown rights by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests which amounted to disafforestment . |
| 15 | And with the Scottish tour , the All Black tour , the Wallaby tour to South Africa , followed by the visits to Ireland and Wales , coming up , Coker has plenty of incentive . |
| 16 | Britain only have this weekend to worry about , and Widnes and Wigan , with nine squad members between them , should not be extended by the visits of Wakefield and Barrow . |
| 17 | She identifies advertising as one of the main forms of these , and feels that the pressure is intensified by the attitudes of friends and family who have been influenced by the media and make it extremely difficult for girls to remain impervious to the images of beauty which surround them : on TV , in films , magazines and newspapers . |
| 18 | Exceptions occur when a position is so specialised or obscure that search is the only way ; but by the laws of demand and supply , such jobs as these usually attract high salaries in any case . |
| 19 | This explanation , it has to be admitted , is not wholly convincing , and would appear to be contradicted by the actions of investors and the fortunes of firms . |
| 20 | Surrounded by the slums of Portuguese and Arab immigrants , the campus drew its students from the middle classes , but did so under an authoritarian system of education that seemed hardly to have changed in 150 years . |
| 21 | ‘ It has been suggested to me by the parents of Tomkiss and Wattling that their sons are skilled in … metalwork , and that the school should have an … option that would enable them to pursue their interest in this … field . |
| 22 | This Labour is highly reminiscent of the Babylonian myth of the Garden of Eden brought back by the Hebrews from captivity and incorporated with modifica-tions into Genesis , as the apples of the Tree of Death , with Satan in the guise of the snake ( see p. 158 below ) . |
| 23 | The Black Country in its early days was still country , ‘ a countryside in course of becoming industrialised ; more and more a strung-out web of iron-working villages , market towns next door to collieries , heaths and wastes gradually and very slowly being covered by the cottages of nailers and other persons carrying on industrial occupations in rural surroundings ’ . |
| 24 | There is a focus upon natural families , and in particular poor natural families , whose ties are threatened by the powers of courts and social workers to remove children and keep them away from their parents , perhaps permanently . |
| 25 | Exalted patriotism was generated by the battle of Bailén , by the sieges of Saragossa and Gerona . |
| 26 | This can be particularly important in family-held groups , where holdings are often complicated by the workings of trusts and the family may be resident in several countries . |
| 27 | His familiar way of observing things from a distance while highlighting a small detail — described in a different context by Hardy himself when he wrote , ‘ If I were a painter , I would paint a picture of a room as viewed by a mouse from a chink under the skirting ’ , and by the modern poet and critic Tom Paulin when he talks of Hardy wearing his imagination like a miner 's lamp — was now enriched by the workings of memory and the passage of time on the original observation . |
| 28 | It seems he was totally bewildered by the streams of traffic and all the noise and was very glad to get back to rural tranquillity . |
| 29 | Chichester , Burpham ( covering the Arun valley but replaced by Arundel after the Conquest ) , Lewes and Hastings were backed up by the ports at Bosham and Pevensey and the episcopal centre at Selsey . |
| 30 | Industrialisation was prompted by the failures of Europe and the United States during the Great Depression and the Second world war , leading to import substitution , rather than a conscious development policy . |