Example sentences of "[was/were] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examinations were by a National committee . |
| 2 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 3 | You could tell where the best-known pros or the most famous celebrities were by the larger galleries following them . |
| 4 | Eternal values can also be sought in art , as they were by the French art historian Élie Faure , whose open mind accepted disparate arts , a view which he expressed like this : ‘ It is not paradoxical at all to affirm that an Ivory Coast mask and the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel express the same need to manifest a harmonious rapport which exists between mankind and the universe . ’ |
| 5 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 6 | But , as we have seen , other products of social organisation , such as seals and medallions , can have this quality too and , in the right conditions , may be aptly considered more reliable , as they were by the medieval knights . |
| 7 | State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege . |
| 8 | And he could recall seeing one or two small oils hung in local restaurants and pubs , slap-dash in technique and economical of paint , but so different from the prettified watercolours that it was hard to believe that they too were by the same hand . |
| 9 | When such details are examined it seems that , in spite of all their contrasts , these pavements were by the same craftsman/men . |
| 10 | Draper 's own favourite records of the moment were by the Brazilian guitarist Egberto Gismonti , Joni Mitchell and the virtuoso jazz pianist Keith Jarrett . |
| 11 | As well as being mysterious the wind is powerful : it was by a mighty wind that God assuaged the waters of the Flood ( Gen. 8 : 1 ) , and by a wind that he caused the waters to recede before Israel at the Exodus ( Exod. 14:21 ) . |
| 12 | Last entry in the register was by a passing stranger during the Wall Street crash . ’ |
| 13 | I chose the St Edmund Hall book I did because it was by a contemporary politician , and also because it was representative of one of the largest classes of dispersed books , those used by the immediately preceding generation : that is , those published in the fifties and sixties . |
| 14 | The Sun Goeth Down , Mary 's great aria , never felt comfortable , hindered as it was by a disappointing violin solo from Andrew Martin , substituting after the interval for an indisposed Edwin Paling . |
| 15 | It was by a modern playwright . |
| 16 | All meetings were boring to him unless the participants could talk in depth and unless the debate was by a small enough number of people for personal friendships to be fostered . |
| 17 | Nizan 's war correspondence makes it clear that his resignation was motivated as much by a refusal to accept the moral integrity of the Soviet alliance with Hitler , as it was by a complete lack of faith in the French communist party leadership to think beyond blind and servile acquiescence to Moscow . |
| 18 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |
| 19 | Yet once children were taken into care , and especially if this was by a compulsory route , parents frequently felt ignored and excluded , and there was evidence that they were often left to cope alone with the practical and psychological barriers that divided them from their children . |
| 20 | The fact that Dissent appeared to flourish under toleration became a great cause for concern to those devout Anglicans who throughout the 1680s had been encouraged to believe that the only way to protect the Church and State was by a strict enforcement of the penal laws , and their anxieties were further reinforced by the sermons of the high-flying clergy . |
| 21 | Indeed the only method of granting local government to a locality until the early part of the nineteenth century was by a Royal Charter and grants of franchise to corporate bodies and to individuals . |
| 22 | Well I was given a really big chance a while ago , it was by a single parent who was an editor of the community newspaper , I 'm now the business and production manager , I 'm a single parent , my wee boy 's three . |
| 23 | The largest deal , however , was by a British company in The Netherlands , with Scottish & Newcastle Breweries ' acquisition of CentreParcs . |
| 24 | The entrance to the harbour was by a clear channel for the last two hundred yards or so , unmarked but familiar to the fisherfolk , the rest a widespread menace . |
| 25 | The way through was by a supported family meeting . |
| 26 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
| 27 | The system was 6 miles long , the voltage was 525 D.C. and current collection was by a third rail , central until 1905 , then outside . |
| 28 | Cos I know when I was at school we actually got our sex education in fourth year , and it was by a visiting lecturer , it was this wee old man about fifty , he said basically , this is a male body , this is a female body , nothing about sexuality , orgasms anything ! |
| 29 | The first complete English translation was by the Carthusian Nicholas Love and licensed for reading by the Archbishop of Canterbury , Thomas Arundel , in 1410 , but portions were translated earlier than this . |
| 30 | The Icelandic saga writer Snorri Sturluson was by the early thirteenth century calling this brother Eglaf , and identifying Ragnvald as earl of Västergötland in Sweden . |