Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was perfectly entitled to do this by the statutes of the English Faculty ; but there being , at that date , no one in Oxford who could teach it , Lewis had to organize a tutor from Aberystwyth to be brought to Oxford once a week by train . |
| 2 | The following day we explored Bragança 's castle , which is superbly preserved and houses a military museum , showing Portugal 's colonial past and the role played in this by the menfolk of Bragança . |
| 3 | Er we are confirmed in our reservations about this by the results of the regional census study as I noted in my brief commentary N Y three . |
| 4 | The women achieve this by the performances of countless religious rituals of their own which are observed for the welfare of their male protectors in their families . |
| 5 | Tamed native birds flocked on the poolside boardwalk of their rented hideaway , ‘ Hawksnest ’ , as we met for the first time , and Robin encircled his shyness with a stream-of-consciousness banter , made easier by the antics of a visiting cocker spaniel , which bit the head off a parrot . |
| 6 | At the end of Charles Bridge you come to the beautiful gateway into the Old Town built between 1370 and 1410 by the workshops of Peter Parler . |
| 7 | Soon it would be completely behind her , and she would be able to get on with living again , untroubled by the cataclysms of her emotions . |
| 8 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 9 | ‘ Poor ’ in person , the monks enjoyed nevertheless a standard of living far above the Sussex norm , a situation made clear by the accounts of the late fourteenth-century cellarer , Brother Thomas Ellam , who bought the bulk provisions the monks needed : |
| 10 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 11 | The power output was indeed high by the standards of the time — 400 watts . |
| 12 | But I am more bothered by the implications of losing what may be the last chance of a home-grown refuge free from ongoing human interference . |
| 13 | ‘ A large percentage have spent years hiding their arms under long sleeves and are highly embarrassed by the results of a mistake made years ago . |
| 14 | By one o'clock he 'd be staggered by the reels of shiny new bureaucratic red tape and return to the hotel fort where we would lunch by the pool , talk , plan , watch , and he would slowly recuperate . |
| 15 | He comically dismisses his attempts to project himself into the narrative future and finds that the past is rendered elusive by the distortions of the means he uses to recapture it . |
| 16 | However , in order to ensure deductibility by Target of such payments , the termination payments must be " wholly untrammelled by the terms of the bargain [ that the vendor ] shareholders [ have ] struck with [ Newco ] and [ that Target ] come to a decision to pay solely in the interests of the trade " ( see the James Snook case , above ) . |
| 17 | On one famous occasion an aspiring pro , later to play in the Ryder Cup , was so incensed by the antics of his pro-am partners that he left the course in mid-round . |
| 18 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 19 | However , many townsmen were reasonably well-off by the standards of the time and were able to rebuild their modest dwellings . |
| 20 | Rolle is emphatic that " ryghtwysnes " is not in the discipline itself , but it is the fruit of it , a state of inner freedom untouched by the constraints of outward circumstances : He recognises that the will to effect such inner effort has to be awakened — drawn — that it is the response to goodness in men and in Christ , and to the joy of heaven , which starts to work man 's salvation . |
| 21 | Untouched by the reforms of Baron Larrey , it bore the permanent stench of death and corruption , its handful of battle casualties heavily outnumbered by those suffering from accidental or self-inflicted injury , fever , dysentery and venereal complaints . |
| 22 | Because they want nothing , they 're untouched by the evils of the outside world . |
| 23 | The essence of the feminine spirit was still there , untouched by the ravages of her leprosy . |
| 24 | Clearly any or all of these are possible but erm er naturally you would understand that if you had them daily by film you would be having you know ninety pieces of paper er and clearly that may not be appropriate at times well times , you know hundreds by the looks of it now but usually times ten at least . |
| 25 | They are payable by the occupiers of the property , and the rateable value is assessed on the annual letting value of the property . |
| 26 | Following the passing of the Development Land Tax of 1976 , all land acquisitions by authorities were made at a price net of any tax payable by the sellers of development land . |
| 27 | SPECIALISTS are urging women not to be alarmed by the results of a Canadian study on breast cancer screening which is due to be made public soon . |
| 28 | In different ways , both government are alarmed by the implications of what is happening . |
| 29 | Even if direct physical assault was made impossible by the bars of the cages there was something about this sudden attack on Creggan that replaced the fear he had felt earlier with anger . |
| 30 | We are witnessing only the latest episode in that long history , in which geography itself has been remade , and the landscape , now more than ever , is transformed not so much by the efforts of individuals , as by public policy and the stroke of a pen . |