Example sentences of "and by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem obvious that Inday was killed by the intransigence of Western banks , like Barclays ; by the harsh conditions imposed by the IMF ; by the malevolent impact of Del Monte ; and by the economic policies of successive Philippine governments . |
| 2 | In this , the companies were aided and abetted both by the dislocating and isolating processes that impinged on the people who came to their villages and by the key agents in both pits and communities ( the buttymen and the Spencer group ) who contrived a particular mixture of deference , self-interest and non-political association in the locally-constructed significant reality of the working people . |
| 3 | This right to speak ill of the dead is justified in the interests of historians and biographers , and by the practical difficulties of subjecting deceased persons to cross-examination . |
| 4 | He acknowledged the interest the Zone idea had raised in Southeast Asia , indicated by the fact that ‘ representatives of the most diverse social groups advance many ideas concerning the organisational forms of translating the idea of neutrality into practice ’ , and by the regular meetings of a special ASEAN committee to formulate recommendations that could form the basis of a plan for neutralising Southeast Asia . |
| 5 | And by the first days of May , the entire Russian line in the area was in flight . |
| 6 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 7 | Joseph Chamberlain retained his preference for independence but allowed himself to be overruled by Austen and by the overwhelming wishes of the Liberal Unionist Council to merge . |
| 8 | This project carries out a study of the electorate , designed to be a continuation of the uninterrupted series of academic studies started by Butler and Stokes in the 1960s , taken up by Sarlvik and Crewe throughout the 1970s , and by the present investigators in 1983 . |
| 9 | But it was sent to the National Security Council and in the meantime Secretary of Defense Johnson , according to the internal ‘ History of the Indo-China Incident ’ prepared for and by the Joint Chiefs of Staff , had called upon the NSC to determine exactly how US security was threatened by the current situation in the Far East and to formulate tentative courses of action which were to be co-ordinated for the whole region and were to outline specific objectives to be attained . |
| 10 | At the same time , the rise of this new class , and the transition from feudalism to capitalism which it accomplished in Western Europe , were made possible by other transformations and political or cultural conflicts ; by the establishment of centralized , effectively administered nation states , and by the religious struggles from which emerged the Protestant sects and the diffusion of the Protestant ethic , which at the very least contributed to the self-confidence and determination of the bourgeoisie , promoted a climate of opinion favourable to its activities , and perhaps hastened its triumph . |
| 11 | Theoretical justifications of such a balance were frequent ; and by the middle decades of the century it was being discussed more widely than ever before . |
| 12 | The use of terms such as ‘ social evil ’ and the ‘ social diseases ’ suggests a widespread fear of the social implications of prostitution , and by the middle years of the century this fear was becoming part of a general social anxiety . |
| 13 | Applications for student loans are handled by the Registry Office on the Coleraine and Jordanstown campuses and by the General Offices at Belfast and Magee College . |
| 14 | They heard the geese know when to fly North , and when to fly South and navigate by the stars and by the lay lines in the earth , it 's just is n't it magical ? |
| 15 | It is basically a twelfth-century building , though sadly damaged later on by the iconoclastic Protestants of Jeanne d'Albret in the sixteenth century , and by the fanatical rationalists of the French Revolution who converted it into one of their Temples of Reason . |
| 16 | Each ship he described is a microcosm , an enclosed community where individuals will be challenged by nature and by the crowded pressures of their comrades in service : each is , besides , a microcosm standing , in an archetypal metaphor , for the whole world . |
| 17 | Bérégovoy was described by Le Monde of April 3 as the " quintessence of political professionalism " and by the Financial Times as " a paragon of gravity , moderation and great experience " . |
| 18 | Because of rising costs and the import of cheap foreign lead in the late 1800s , the market collapsed and by the early years of this century the mines had all closed . |
| 19 | Gradually , the noise and traffic increased , and as they passed through the meat market at Smithfield , Oliver was amazed by the sight and smells of so many animals , and by the huge crowds of people , all pushing and swearing and shouting . |
| 20 | It had been intensified by the mysterious directive of my dream , and by the provocative conversations with Edward . |
| 21 | The evangelical and puritan strands vigorously opposed the double standard , and by the last decades of the century were able to pose a significant challenge to its easy acceptance . |
| 22 | Tolkien and Lewis had met as early as 1926 ; in 1939 Charles Williams had moved as a publisher from London to Oxford , and by the last years of the war Christian revival was in active literary life . |
| 23 | The authorizing of a new ordination service for the clergy in 1550 was followed two years later by the appearance of a second Edwardian Prayer Book , and by the last months of Edward 's reign the country was officially Protestant . |
| 24 | Spurred by a fleeting but unmistakable echo of Thetis 's music , interpolated in its original key as if to remind him of his mother 's counsel , and by the groaning shades of his dead countrymen , he sets forth to exact vengeance for the Trojan victory ( ex.10 ) . |
| 25 | The relationship between centre and periphery in the Merovingian kingdom was thus extremely complex , because the connections between the two regions were exploited both by the Gallo-Roman aristocracy and by the northern rulers for their own ends up until the eighth century . |
| 26 | That is just the reaction provoked by Jesus and by the informal missionaries in the Acts ( Mark I:27 , Acts 4:13 ) . |
| 27 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 28 | Before the war grammar schools were distinguished by their academic curriculum , by the existence of sixth forms , from which there could be progress to university , and by the academic qualifications of the teachers ; and so , after 1944 , it was taken for granted that the grammar school ideal must be preserved in its familiar form . |