Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Depressing because here was an opportunity in a mainstream publishing venture to include some of the new writing on the arts by black women in Britain . |
| 2 | As always when he felt deserted , he went to see Chester Klein , patron of the arts by diverse hands , a man who claimed to have been excised by fretful lawyers from more biographies than any other man since Byron . |
| 3 | ‘ At 28ft the front window cracked and I had a job getting up again' he writes , the Prime Minister did not approve of such risks by senior officers , but the CCO felt his men expected such leadership . |
| 4 | Even ‘ good ’ emperors could be reused for portraits of their successors by provincial craftsmen short of material . |
| 5 | Hepatocyte function in disease may be perturbed by degradation of the normal matrix and its replacement with interstitial collagens by activated lipocytes . |
| 6 | The rest all happily sent in rewritten songs by real song-writers . |
| 7 | They preserve a great number of preludes and dances ( many by ‘ N.C. ’ , supposedly Nicolaus Cracoviensis , ‘ Mikolaj z Krakowa ’ ) , organ service-music , transcriptions of Josquin and his contemporaries , chansons by Janequin ( ‘ La Guerre' of course ) , Sermisy , Sandrin , a little Senfl ( including ‘ Ave rosa ’ ) , but only three or four German songs by minor composers — though the monk of Cracow does include a transcription of Mahu 's ‘ Ein' feste Burg ’ which had appeared in Rhaw 's Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge only four years before . |
| 8 | Schumann 's Frauenliebe und Leben , and songs by Schubert and Brahms are on while an ‘ Anthology of English Song ’ ( ) has 17 lesser known songs by English composers from the beginning of the century . |
| 9 | Other historians have seen the Restoration as a counter-revolution ; a palace coup d'éat in which power passed from one part of the élite to another ; and a transfer of power which was an integral part of the growth of national , and nationalist , awareness among a people faced for the first time in centuries by real threats from the outside world . |
| 10 | The poignant meeting took place in a Corfu bar after an amazing series of coincidences led to 17 separate sightings by British tourists . |
| 11 | Government intervention , usually involving the direct buying or selling of domestic and foreign currencies by central banks . |
| 12 | He was vital to much of the department 's internationally distinguished research in comparative endocrinology , assaying minuscule levels of hormones in experimental animals by physico-chemical techniques . |
| 13 | Europe , not the States , was still the mecca , and many shopping trips by eager Scousers willing to supply the demand in their home city went some way to doing this . |
| 14 | Several new interesting development projects are scheduled for the forthcoming year notably sixty-nine 1 , 2 and 3 bedroomed houses and flats by Salthorp at Milton Heights near Abingdon , Forty-four 1–4 bedroomed units by Ideal Homes at Crowmarsh , Gifford and several further phases of larger sites currently under construction . |
| 15 | A total of 23 theoretical and application papers were presented with four addresses by invited speakers . |
| 16 | People say that the Arabs were told to leave their homes by Arab countries . |
| 17 | In June 1991 , following the trauma in Orkney , the government announced categorically that no more children were to be taken from their homes by social workers in dawn raids . |
| 18 | Some caves , technically known as cliffcaves , are dug into natural loess bluffs or mountain sides ; others made homes by digging pits , 7–8 metres deep , then building caves underground . |
| 19 | He had seen too many prominent European industrialists toppled from their pedestals by tabloid revelations of the pathetic vanity of their wives , frivolously whittling away the family money on a succession of oversexed gigolos . |
| 20 | The convoy drama unfolded after more British troops were sent to help guard the lorries following the massacre of eight civilian drivers by Croatian gunmen . |
| 21 | They were sold in tiny cages by little boys who poked them so that they chirruped for potential customers , for the feistiness of a cicada is judged by the pitch and quality of its song . |
| 22 | They won the CANZ series after a phenomenal series of results : they beat all the main contenders by substantial margins and inflicted defeats by over 40 points on their main rivals ; Otago , the provincial champions of the touring Rugby Canada . |
| 23 | Precisely the same fear of revaluation underlay the continual reluctance of the German and Japanese authorities to see their currencies held as reserves by other countries . |
| 24 | Such models are necessary for the realisation of Wilson 's claim , and there have been several attempts at preliminary formulations by social scientists , archaeologists , population geneticists and from Wilson himself . |
| 25 | From any solution of this equation we can generate equivalent solutions by changing coordinates ; they are equivalent because the measurable tidal effects are determined by the difference in h at two places and remain the same whatever the choice of coordinates . |
| 26 | London was linked to all parts of the provinces by weekly services as far back as the reign of Charles I and probably earlier . |
| 27 | Groups of actors have often provided the focus of stories about the victimisation of innocents by totalitarian forces ( examples include To Be or Not to Be , Privates on Parade , The Last Metro and the recent Spanish film Ay , Carmela ! ) , so it 's interesting to see such a relatively early variation on the theme as this . |
| 28 | The detentions marked the first major roundup of Jews by French police during the Nazi occupation of France . |
| 29 | With there often being many routes to approximately similar goals , there would appear to be little to be gained from studying these developing routes through the design process , However , the constraints and objectives set on the way are seen to " steer " the designers towards similar goals by differing paths . |
| 30 | Some place must be found for the principle of self-determination as a basis for altering international boundaries and the controlled and limited use of force in the service of this principle , and , in order to establish the boundaries of such legitimate force , it will be necessary to establish rules to which appeal can be made for the settlement of territorial disputes by international courts as an essential precondition of the legitimate resort to force . |