Example sentences of "by [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 2 | They do this when they believe they can operate more profitably and with greater stability than could be achieved by reliance on the workings of imperfect international markets ( Buckley and Casson , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | A benefit suggested by 17% of the wives from the ‘ substitution attendance ’ was that it would allow them to help each other out in emergencies . |
| 4 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 5 | During the late 1940s and early 1950s the Communist movement was further weakened by splits in the parties of Mexico , Venezuela , Colombia , Argentina , Bolivia , Peru and Brazil — mostly over the questions of local tactics discussed above or because of rivalry for the party leadership . |
| 6 | Dexter was unable to decide whether her wistfulness was caused by sympathy for the victims of adultery or knowledge that the majority of murders were committed by close relatives of the dead . |
| 7 | 17.46 By building on the experiences of earlier key stages pupils should be made aware of the following range of functions of writing : ( a ) — primarily to communicate meaning to others : reporting , narrating , persuading , arguing , describing , instructing , explaining ; ( b ) — for thinking and learning : recollecting , organising thoughts , reconstructing , reviewing , hypothesising ; ( c ) — using language in aesthetic and imaginative ways . |
| 8 | If Wishart stayed the night at Hamilton Terrace his cup of tea the next morning was laced by Minton with the dregs from the night before . |
| 9 | But the arbitrator is sufficiently expert to enable him to decide just by inspection of the goods in dispute . |
| 10 | By contrast with the offences in Part 1 of the Act which specifically provide for a requirement of mens rea , no such explicit provision is made in this Part of the Act . |
| 11 | There was a civilized comfort about these winter evenings that gained by contrast with the hardships of daytime . |
| 12 | The substitution of the term " information " for the old " press and propaganda " , and its promotion to ministerial level seemed to indicate a more wide-ranging approach to questions of what the general public might know and think of the regime ; while the allocation of official attention to tourism suggested that , by contrast with the days of autarchy and isolationism , foreigners were henceforth to be encouraged to come to Spain . |
| 13 | Europeans , by contrast with the peoples of other continents , were to become noticeably more curious and impatient with the world as they found it , and more inclined to tamper with its workings . |
| 14 | By contrast to the moods of Faldo and Ballesteros , Ian Woosnam , who was defending the title in New Orleans just as he will at Augusta , was close to despair after his final round of 74 . |
| 15 | Extensive sheep pens at the side of the line at Rogart indicated that stock still travel by rail to the markets in the south . |
| 16 | The wagon that carried her was waylaid and stolen by vagabonds in the forests of my domain , and in my lands she came to rest . ’ |
| 17 | [ Dulwich Picture Gallery : No.331 By permission of the Governors of Dulwich Picture Gallery ] |
| 18 | The plaintiff 's action succeeded but his damages were reduced by 80% on the grounds of contributory negligence . |
| 19 | The predictable seasonal changes are anticipated by birds through the changes of day length . |
| 20 | Neumann further excuses this fast Beethoven minuet tempo , referring to the fast verbal tempo indications by Haydn for the minuets of his last eight quartets , by calling attention among other things to Beethoven 's accompanying words to this Menuetto , ‘ Allegro molto e vivace ’ , saying that ‘ when Haydn [ and , we presume , Beethoven ] wanted a minuet to be played faster than the unhurried Allegretto , he unfailingly indicated his intentions with eloquent tempo words . ’ |
| 21 | The deputies unanimously declared : " Immeasurable sorrow was caused by Germans to the peoples of the world during the time of National Socialism . |
| 22 | By Direction of the Owners FOR SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY |
| 23 | A century later , to eyes hardened by exposure to the brutalities of reinforced concrete , the dams and weirs seem part of the landscape from which their stone was taken . |
| 24 | It campaigned for free universal state pensions for everyone over the age of 65 , in order to combat the poverty created by the rejection of older workers by employers on the grounds of age . |
| 25 | Political consciousness of the public would be enhanced by recognition of the benefits of cooperation , then of the need for cooperative representation . |
| 26 | Washington even seemed prepared to go some way towards meeting the desire of the USSR to revise the treaties relating to the rights of passage by warships through the Straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — an issue with a long and complicated history reaching back into tsarist times . |
| 27 | Such interests can not be transferred without writing , and in most cases a deed is required ; in any case the transfer is not complete except by entry in the books of the Bank of England or of the body or company concerned . |
| 28 | This is no longer surprising after the discussion in Section I. The second , which is more remarkable , is that the liberal interpretation put forward is reached precisely by analogy with the institutions of the civil law . |
| 29 | Such recognition is reflected , for instance , in the enhancement by statute of the rights of employees against dismissal , which from an aggregate wealth viewpoint may be depicted as inhibiting factor mobility and hence on occasion as being wealth reducing . |
| 30 | To re-define charity by statute on the lines of existing law would not be easy and might well confuse rather than clarify the law , for the essential difficulties connected with benefit to the public require more explanation and analysis than is convenient in an Act of Parliament . |