Example sentences of "[that] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But though this was so , Lord Coke reports that it was resolved by the whole Court of Common Pleas ‘ that payment of a lesser sum on the day in satisfaction of a greater can not be any satisfaction for the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum : but the gift of a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , in satisfaction is good for it shall be intended that a horse , hawk , or robe , etc. , might be more beneficial to the plaintiff than the money , in respect of some circumstance , or otherwise the plaintiff would not have accepted it in satisfaction . |
| 2 | There is a second point stated to have been resolved , viz. : ‘ That payment of a lesser sum on the day can not be any satisfaction of the whole , because it appears to the judges that by no possibility a lesser sum can be a satisfaction to the plaintiff for a greater sum . ’ |
| 3 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 4 | Findspots and masons ' marks confirm Pausanias 's division of the subjects between east and west , and his order ( except that by a slip he omits the dragging of Cerberus from Hades ) . |
| 5 | It showed that by a ratio of 2 : 1 the electorate preferred to have my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in charge of the policy than the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 6 | . However , and come to the conclusion that by a name Egyptian Children of Israel . |
| 7 | Radcliffe-Brown 's lifelong conviction was that by a kind of Newtonian revolution , replacing the historical speculations of ethnology by a scientific methodology , social anthropology might become ‘ a theoretical natural science of society ’ , in a sociological tradition he traced to Montesquieu , Comte , Herbert Spencer [ q.v. ] , and Durkheim . |
| 8 | At the same time they submitted a memorial to Manners which stated their conviction ‘ that by a developement [ sic ] on the basis of the old architecture of the country there exists the best hope of our Public Buildings being effectually improved in character ’ . |
| 9 | If the whites in Southern Africa could see this , not as a threat but as an opportunity — if they could grasp the truth that by a change of will and spirit they could deprive the Communists of their best propaganda weapon — there still might just be time for things to move in a new direction . |
| 10 | And that by a stroke of coincidence no bed and breakfasts were open and you were forced to seek help at the Hall ? |
| 11 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 12 | It has been established by the judgment of this court given on 3 February 1992 that by a letter to the mother , dated 23 September 1991 , the father expressed his acquiescence in the removal . |
| 13 | This Fraxillian city apparently had none of those things , except objects that by a stretch definition could have been called buildings . |
| 14 | They almost succeeded , so that by a combination of close range misses , poor handling and half-hearted rebounding they trailed 33-27 at the break . |
| 15 | This would suggest that by the date of the walls , the interior was already well built-up ; indeed excavations near the south-west gate she wed the intervallum road to have been re-metalled six times indicating prolonged usage . |
| 16 | Even so , there can be little doubt that by the middle of the war , the hold of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was among German youth , too , in a process of disintegration . |
| 17 | The industry 's multi-processing unit gurus assembled at the Microprocessor Forum in California last month , looked into their crystal balls and predicted that by the middle of the decade a typical high-end microprocessor would run at 250MHz-300MHz with about 64Kb of on-chip cache and a maximum issue rate of 4–6 instructions a cycle , double today 's leading silicon . |
| 18 | Criticisms such as these were so widely deemed effective that by the middle of the 1960s Realism was popularly held to have been superseded as the dominant approach in the discipline . |
| 19 | The result was that by the middle of 1990 , both companies were finding sales of their established ‘ bread-and-butter ’ linguistic product lines seriously eroded . |
| 20 | This was so successful in London and the South-East that by the middle of 1937 there existed something like a parallel system to the official machinery . |
| 21 | He reminded me there was a counterclaim for £2,444 and that by the order the plaintiffs in this action were released from any possible liability on the counterclaim . |
| 22 | And such was the momentum of the new German scholarship that by the beginning of the nineteenth century Germany had become the European centre for classical studies , traditional as well as new , and an unprecedented growth in the scale of scholarly work of a host of different kinds well under way . |
| 23 | Erm this gives an average over say a five year period of about a hundred and forty nine dwellings per annum , if you if you divide that by the household er estimate of something like two point five household size , which is the current sort of level in Cleveland . |
| 24 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 25 | AMERICA ‘ Latest estimates show that by the year 2010 , the USA will be a Japanese-owned country speaking Spanish . |
| 26 | ( Mind you , if you had extrapolated the trend of Dixons sales in the mid-80s , you would have concluded that by the year 2020 we would be spending every penny of our income on consumer electronics . ) |
| 27 | But Parents for Safe Food are lending their support to the Soil Association 's efforts to ensure that by the year 2000 , 20% of our food will be organic . |
| 28 | The effect will be that by the year 2000 nuclear energy should overtake oil as France 's main fuel , with oil consumption falling by 26% , representing a considerable reduction in the cost of importing energy . |
| 29 | It has been predicted by motor industry scientists that by the year 2000 only half of cars will still use petrol , with methanol the next largest power source followed by diesel , liquefied petroleum gas and alcohol produced by biomass . |
| 30 | These facts , coupled with population growth , suggest that by the year 2000 most of the remaining forests will have disappeared and been replaced with subsistence farming with a little surplus income derived from cash crops . |