Example sentences of "by [noun prp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is certainly the case that the idea that existence is not a predicate , a quality of things such as blueness or hardness , was clearly recognised in classical philosophy long before it was taken up by Kant in the eighteenth century and further refined by Bertrand Russell in the twentieth . |
| 2 | When the concept was first introduced by Faraday in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century it was very vague , and was articulated with the aid of mechanical analogies and a metaphorical use of terms such as ‘ tension ’ , ‘ power ’ and ‘ force ’ . |
| 3 | For these reasons , they were the first to have theories developed for them : gravity by Newton in the seventeenth century , and electromagnetism by Maxwell in the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | The most important dream-book of this sort was the compilation made by Artemidorus in the second century AD , taking material from Middle Eastern , Greek and North African sources . |
| 5 | This included Phil Morris , who had been apprenticed to a graphics printer for four years when he joined the company and who was immediately sent by Bernard on a further course in fabric processing . |
| 6 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 7 | Much investment has borne fruit already : in the publication by Chadwyck-Healey of the British Library Catalogue on CD-ROM , in the electronic output ( including CD-ROM publications ) of the National Bibliographic Service , in the publication by Bowker-Saur of the retroconverted Catalogue of Printed Music , and so on . |
| 8 | Another approach to creating a user-friendly system has been worked on by Doszkocs at the National Institute of Health : CITE ( Current Information Transfer in English ) is a natural language query capability for the MEDLINE database . |
| 9 | Within the Delphi Centre , although it is possible to identify the employment by Roger of a distinctive strategy for resolving the demands that are made of him , it is radically different from that of Owen and the Victoria Centre . |
| 10 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 11 | IBM demonstrated imaging extensions to its X-Window software in an implementation produced by the New York-based software house Congruent Corp , The X Imaging Extension ( XIE ) is the imaging software for X submitted to the X Consortium by DEC as a proposed standard . |
| 12 | By Mitch at the 350 Salon , Battersea |
| 13 | That was seen to maximum effect two years ago when just a hint from McGuinness that the IRA might declare a ceasefire in return for talks with the Government was hailed by Whitehall as a major breakthrough . |
| 14 | The schema was promptly attacked by Lienart on the basic ground that there are not two sources of revelation , but only one : the Word of God . |
| 15 | Wexford found the lead , obligingly left by Sheila in a prominent position on top of the refrigerator . |
| 16 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 17 | The physics and cosmology that provided the framework in which this astronomy was set was basically that developed by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C. In the second century A.D. , Ptolemy devised a detailed astronomical system that specified the orbits of the moon , the sun and all the planets . |
| 18 | It is in fact the reading contract , the explicit relationship between writer and reader that is at the heart of the technical problems experienced by Nizan as a revolutionary novelist . |
| 19 | The polite , complacent literature of fully integrated bourgeois writers such as Andre Maurois , Jacques de Lacretelle and Julien Green is unceremoniously attacked , as is the work of Jean Giono classified by Nizan as a naive form of utopian escapism in the face of modern industrial society Equally , Nizan is extremely hostile to the sentimental , colonial and populist literature produced by the bourgeoisie for the mystification of the proletariat . |
| 20 | The stalling of negotiations and the eventual failure to sign any agreement , however , were attributed by Nizan to a complete lack of commitment on the part of the French and British governments . |
| 21 | We put on three new plays by Will in the next year , and some plays by other writers . |
| 22 | The England captain , who had an outstanding match , is eventually halted by Aherne after a powerful midfield burst — but not before Geoghegan and Matthews are sucked in … |
| 23 | Brunel then prepared some guide-lines , which were approved by the other judges and sent to the assessors by Buckler on the same day . |
| 24 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 25 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 26 | But while international and long-distance tariffs have been reduced especially in the USA and Britain — the gap between costs and prices remains massive ; the price charged by Intelsat for the transocean telephone call from Paris or London to New York is multiplied by something like ten times when the customer is billed . |
| 27 | The process of exchange , the underlying grammar of narrative so cherished by Greimas as a fixed structure , ‘ must ’ in fact be ‘ mutable ’ . |
| 28 | Standing stripped to the waist , cheered on by Redcoats in a packed arena of wooden chalets and Beachcomber bars , he won the body beautiful contest . |
| 29 | REVOLUTION , literature and love , and the roads and side-roads which join them together , are concerns which join together the Czech writers Milan Kundera and Ivan Klima , whose name is used by Kundera for the uxorious philanderer of his novel The Farewell Party . |
| 30 | An own-goal by Rocha in the seventh minute put the Italians on the way and Fusi 's 77th minute strike proved decisive . |