Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 2 | At the moment computers are increasing in speed by an average factor of ten per annum , and the number of computers in use in the Western world is increasing by about twenty-five percent per year . |
| 3 | The term ‘ indiction ’ has been used earlier in this chapter , and although the system is unlikely to be encountered in isolation by a local historian it is worth recording , if only for the sake of completeness . |
| 4 | ‘ Keep it ! ’ she blazed as he tossed it on to the terrace by the front door . |
| 5 | A minority shareholder may override the transfer provisions in a company 's Articles of Association by a successful application for an order under s459 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 6 | It becomes more difficult each year to find words that will reflect the invaluable help given to the Association by the young people of the Air Training Corps and the Girls Venture Corps Air Cadets . |
| 7 | I have been examining the exercise of critical thought , but the account up to now has largely concentrated on critical thinking by the individual student . |
| 8 | They stress the theory-laden character of our pictures of the world and the extent to which scientists are said to be influenced in their thinking by the social factor of the spirit of the age . |
| 9 | After a minute or two Crane appeared leading a horse by a broken rein . |
| 10 | No-one ever told Artemis Deverill that her mother had been killed out hunting that fine October morning , knocked from her horse by the young Stanhope-Murray boy as he tried to thrust his way past her , jumping a hedge and instantly breaking her neck . |
| 11 | The ugly weal across his throat told its own story of why he was unable to say what had happened , although the gamekeeper believed he must have been swept from his horse by the low-lying branch of a tree . |
| 12 | For them the answer to the question of interpretation , and at the same time to the question of evaluation , is provided by the concept of structure ; good literature or poetry is distinguished from bad literature or non-literature by an objective structure of meaning , the balancing or reconciliation of opposing attitudes or terms . |
| 13 | A Treaty Too Far by Michael Spicer , MP for South Worcestershire has a forward by the High Priestess of anti-Federalism , Lady Thatcher . |
| 14 | Although libraries may classify new stock by the latest edition of DC , earlier editions remain important because many libraries are reluctant to reclassify , and thus leave stock classified according to earlier editions long after they have been superseded . |
| 15 | It was flanked on one side by a great domed hall , supported on a quadrant of megalithic arches , each one at least twelve feet thick ; to its side the palace wall rose upwards with a colossal , almost Romanesque massiveness . |
| 16 | Such upwarps consist of broad swells running parallel to the coast and are in most cases flanked on their oceanward side by a great escarpment . |
| 17 | Strathbeg is bordered on its landward side by a vast , derelict , World War II airfield ; deserted , pock-marked runways lead to the base of a Ministry of Defence 900-foot-high radio mast , surrounded by ancillary buildings . |
| 18 | In the centre was the velour package of diamonds , framed on each side by a half-pound block of tacky beige substance . |
| 19 | multiply that side by a hundred and twenty so we must do the same on the other side of the equation . |
| 20 | Right so you do it on other side and then work out what that comes to , so why did you multiply that side by a hundred ? |
| 21 | It appears to be bounded on the west side by a considerable ditch running down the hill slope . |
| 22 | Altair is flanked to either side by a fainter star , Gamma or Tarazed and Beta ( 3.7 ) ; Gamma is a K-type star , very clearly orange when seen in binoculars . |
| 23 | The patio was bounded on the road side by a high flint wall which , to the south and east , curved to little more than four feet to give an unimpeded view across the headland to the sea . |
| 24 | Vine Street itself appeared to be a short cul-de-sac that was hardly more than an alley , and mostly dominated along one side by the towering rear facade of some big hotel . |
| 25 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |
| 26 | It has been cut on the south side by the modern lane approaching the ‘ villa ’ . |
| 27 | There is a kind of insularity at Lochranza cut off from the Corrie side by the great glens and hills of Sannox and on the other side by the long wild uninhabited coastal stretch to Catacol . |
| 28 | The unofficial side was represented by the friendly way he was being offered coffee in a thin china cup , and the official side by the nervous energy of the AC 's manner and the fact that he was unobtrusively taking notes . |
| 29 | To the Northumbrian army they must appear as three arrowheads with a thousand barbs each , roofed and armoured on either side by the heavy , scaled ranks of their shields ; the risky moment was the first , when they made impact . |
| 30 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |