Example sentences of "[noun] by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet , a positive impact was made by the publication of such guidelines by the English Law Society in 1989 . |
| 4 | ‘ Keep it ! ’ she blazed as he tossed it on to the terrace by the front door . |
| 5 | Whether it 's simply the right songs by the right band at the right time , who knows . |
| 6 | The Minister of Education , Mr Yitzhak Navon , said yesterday that he was suspending a ban on the songs by the state-run Broadcasting Authority pending a final decision by the attorney-general . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Ragusans represented a way of life which was completely different from that imposed upon the Balkan peoples by the Ottoman occupation , and their influence on life in the cities was of great historic significance . |
| 11 | A recent Bank project in north-west Brazil , Planaforo , which aims to help correct some of the damage caused to indigenous peoples by the Bank-funded road through Rondonia state , has itself come under attack . |
| 12 | After a minute or two Crane appeared leading a horse by a broken rein . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Community-wide action involving the doctrine of civil liability has been taken in the area of product safety and consumer protection , but is concerned only with losses by a private consumer . |
| 16 | A Treaty Too Far by Michael Spicer , MP for South Worcestershire has a forward by the High Priestess of anti-Federalism , Lady Thatcher . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the centre was the velour package of diamonds , framed on each side by a half-pound block of tacky beige substance . |
| 19 | It appears to be bounded on the west side by a considerable ditch running down the hill slope . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It has been cut on the south side by the modern lane approaching the ‘ villa ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A conventional view would be that the proliferation of new species , discovered between 1650 and 1750 , sank the ark by the sheer weight of their numbers . |
| 24 | Crawford played Constable Gough , a young policeman who is sent to a boarding-house to investigate a revenge murder by a jilted girl . |
| 25 | In its place would be a sentencing discretion , which judges would use , in many cases , to mark the relative heinousness of the murder by a determinate prison sentence . |
| 26 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 27 | It is important to stress that enterprise zones were regarded as a political experiment by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 28 | Or is the idea merely a piece of folklore belief , sustained over the centuries by an inexact understanding of the quality of lunacy and destined to go the way of other popular myths , such as phrenology , astrology , and Mesmerism ? |
| 29 | The central position of theology as the ‘ queen ’ of disciplines was paralleled in later centuries by the similar position occupied by philosophy in Scottish universities ( Davie 1961 ) . |
| 30 | In addition , an elevator for discharging grain from ships was completed on the South side of Edinburgh Dock and connected to the warehouse by a large conveyor band erected on brackets hung from steel principals of a long iron shed . |