Example sentences of "by [noun prp] in the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We put on three new plays by Will in the next year , and some plays by other writers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An own-goal by Rocha in the seventh minute put the Italians on the way and Fusi 's 77th minute strike proved decisive . |
| 11 | These taboos are interpreted by Freud in the same way as neurotic prohibitions and obsessive acts , that is , they appear to be performed out of deference and respect , or even positive love and care , but unconsciously they are produced by motives of hostility . |
| 12 | The horizontal part of the total demand for money curve shown in Fig. 4 is sometimes referred to as the liquidity trap , a theoretical possibility pointed out by Keynes in the General Theory . |
| 13 | The Hood block , which lies close to recent discoveries , was awarded to a group operated by LASMO in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 14 | situated in Ludgate in the City of London near Blackfriars , the church had been rebuilt by Wren in the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | The best example of this is the fact that none of the greatest music of the period was inspired by the idea of military conflict ( as some of that written by Beethoven in the following generation clearly was ) . |
| 16 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 17 | The extent of inequality depends on the variation in N and , magnified by the serial correlation induced by al in the former case , but moderated by the term . |
| 18 | Mungo Campbell A Complete catalogue of works by Turner in the National Gallery of Scotland ( National Galleries of Scotland , Edinburgh , 1993 ) 104pp. 76 b/w 65 col. ills . |
| 19 | ‘ Beings such as Medoc and the old Erl-King , although the Erl-King was vanquished by Cormac in the last century . ’ |
| 20 | They thus gave specific attention to the instinctive bases of human behaviour , this being much more than an attempt to make an analogy between the human world and the struggles for survival identified by Darwin in the natural world . |
| 21 | In the same way many of the cities of the Swedish Baltic provinces , such as Riga and Dorpat , received promises to respect their existing position and rights when they were conquered by Russia in the second decade of the eighteenth century ( though these promises were not always kept ) . |
| 22 | Eight days before the choice Mains ' face seemed set in a state of shock , for the All Blacks had just escaped 24–21 from defeat by Ireland in the First Test . |
| 23 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 24 | Given the range of the latter , his historical output was substantial , with his work in English history , best represented by England in the Nineteenth Century , 1815–1914 ( 1950 ) , eclipsed in quality by his work on French history , which was attractively written and distinctive in approach and content : his several books on the subject included Democracy in France ( 1946 ) , which ran into five editions before his death . |
| 25 | No permanent theatre was permitted in Rome until that built by Pompey in the mid-first century BC . |
| 26 | Since its discovery by Avogadro in the early part of the nineteenth century , this knowledge has also become a major problem for homoeopathic practitioners . |
| 27 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 28 | Hereford fell again … only one goal in it … they 're always so close are United … but not close enough on the attackers for the winner which was scored by Morris in the first half … |
| 29 | The music consists largely of madrigals , though there is a good deal of purely chordal writing ; the solos by Caccini , Cavalieri , and Peri have a great deal of coloratura , as in this ‘ Ecco con due risposte ’ by Peri in the fifth intermedio : |
| 30 | There is also a picture ( Church and School of the Carita ) by Canaletto in the National Gallery , London , of a woman on a balcony with a distaff and spun thread in her hand , which lends further credence to the idea . |