Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its tragic grandeur it seems to forestall by a century some of the finest thoughts of Sibelius . ) |
| 2 | These dreadful events took place in the south of Sri Lanka , which is dominated by the majority Sinhalese population . |
| 3 | She wrote : ’ … essential , right now are groupings of women quite free of the practices of party politics dominated by the fascism inherent in their structures and phallocratic ideology . |
| 4 | Although it seems so fanciful , Wemmick 's cottage ornee at Walworth in Great Expectations ( 1860–1 ) , surrounded by a moat complete with drawbridge to ‘ cut off the communication ’ , is the quintessence of the Victorian home : entirely true to its owner , radiant with contented domesticity , though without the slightest claim to taste or wealth . |
| 5 | It was George Bernard Shaw who claimed that Britain was an island consisting of coal and iron-ore , surrounded by a sea full of fish : It took the British to create a shortage of all three at the same time ! |
| 6 | The Etruscan calf bindings utilized a marbled centre panel surrounded by a border stained terracotta and decorated with black Greek palmettes , copied from Etruscan and Greek vases . |
| 7 | Fur collar hunched round his shoulders , flat hat askew , he was surrounded by a background warm with a sense of movement , an atmosphere thronged with the memories and moments of a long life . |
| 8 | But here , in the heart of rural Stirlingshire and surrounded by the party faithful , he is in good form . |
| 9 | Thus the modest increase in DNA synthesis started in hepatocyte cultures by TAGH ( 1:5000 ) is of similar magnitude to that reported for triiodothyronine alone and must act by a pathway other than that of direct interaction with the EGF binding site of the EGF receptor . |
| 10 | On Bonaire all three seats were won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union ( Union Patriotico Bonairiano — UPB — one in 1985 ) ; on St Maarten the Democratic Party of St Maarten ( DP-SM ) won two seats ( three in 1985 ) and the Patriotic Alliance won one , entering parliament for the first time ; on Saba the single seat went as before to the Windward Islands People 's Movement ( WIPM — not the West Indian People 's Movement as given on p. 36212 ) ; and on St Eustatius the single seat went as before to the Democratic Party of St Eustatius ( DP-SE ) . |
| 11 | We hereby inform the valiant and heroic nation of Iran that last night 50 invading Iraqi tanks which , by the will of God , had become bogged down in mud were attacked by the fighting Iranian forces ; all of them were destroyed and the invaders fled . |
| 12 | French coal production is likely to fall by nearly 40% by 1990 and to halve by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | The company estimates that wind power alone could supply at least 10 per cent of Britain 's energy needs by the year 2025 . |
| 14 | Other ‘ Cambrian ’ news is that the new 158 set broke down with a flat battery on the morning of the 7th July and had to be substituted by a Class 150 Sprinter . |
| 15 | ‘ A Whiter Shade of Pale ’ , launched during Art Cologne in November and on show until 19 December , is Kittelman 's challenge to the ‘ over organised audience ’ attracted by the art fair , an attempt to present in a commercial gallery the type of exhibition more usually seen in a Kunsthalle . |
| 16 | The judge pronounced that , as he was so attracted by the number four , he would be sentenced to sixteen years ' imprisonment , four years for each of his four ‘ marriages ’ . |
| 17 | organised by a group responsible for the whole course programme . |
| 18 | It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund . |
| 19 | It comprises 30 pictures organised by the Church Urban Fund . |
| 20 | Project topics should be organised by the tutor prior to presentation so that a logical sequence can be developed , aiding discussion by the total group . |
| 21 | These may include events organised by the school such as regular parents ' evenings , careers evenings , prize-givings , Compact meetings or socials . |
| 22 | The biggest event organised by the Trust this year took place over the weekend of 23 and 24 June when the countryside was brought to Salford in Greater Manchester . |
| 23 | David Blunkett , another member of the national executive , told a conference fringe rally organised by the soft-left Labour Coordinating Committee that Labour would have to find additional funds for its social programme by cutting £9.5bn from defence spending over five years , and raising the level of taxation on the rich . |
| 24 | On Jan. 8 President Menem had publicly claimed that the latest wave of corruption allegations surrounding his government [ for allegations during 1991 see pp. 37959 ; 38144 ; 38674 ] were part of a smear campaign organised by the opposition Radical Civic Union party ( UCR ) and a malicious press . |
| 25 | For most of the 1975–76 civil war , the massive stone keep of the twelfth-century Castle of St Gilles that still towers over Tripoli was occupied by a Sunni Muslim militia that made its head-quarters in the crusader banqueting hall . |
| 26 | That lay on the east side of Russell Road , now partly occupied by the Sauchiebank Industrial Estate . |
| 27 | The defendant lived with his brother for two and a half years in property owned by the plaintiff local authority of which the brother was a secure tenant under the Housing Act 1985 . |
| 28 | Finally , clause 56 states : ’ Where an offence under this Part committed by a body corporate is committed with the consent or connivance of , or is attributable to any neglect on the part of , a director , manager , secretary or other similar officer of the body , or a person purporting to act in such a capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence . ’ |
| 29 | ( 6 ) Where an offence under this section committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of , or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of , any director , manager or secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity , he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly . |
| 30 | PRESCRIPTION charges are to soar by an inflation-busting 13 per cent to £4.25 , the Government announced yesterday . |