Example sentences of "[adj] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " 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 | It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | While the visit was , of course , an unofficial one , it had a serious purpose which was made clear by the discussions about the problems facing France . |
| 11 | The need for this enterprise has been made clear by the magistrates in their year-long anti-graft campaign Clean Hands . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 : |
| 13 | The function of the pre-trial review is made clear by the instructions to the district judge whereby he or she is required to ‘ … give all such directions as appear to be necessary or desirable for securing the just expeditious and economical disposal of the action or matter . ’ |
| 14 | In each of these cases there is a disposition whose content is not made clear by the words in the will , and the question for the jurist is whether that means the disposition is void or that it ought somehow to be supplemented . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The power output was indeed high by the standards of the time — 400 watts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Which makes it more difficult for us , ’ said Pooley , ‘ since they did n't hang around for as long as usual , and therefore every single one of them was unobserved by the others for a minimum of half an hour . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The appeal is named after Amar , a 10-year-old boy orphaned by the bombings in the marshlands , who was flown to London for plastic surgery at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 22 | Outmoded by the plastics for smaller kites , it comes into its own for the big stuff as , for example , replica Cody man lifters , or the large Baden-Powell ‘ Levitor ’ where , in turn , it replaces the bamboo spars in the original pioneer designs . |
| 23 | In return for the loan , the company issued warrants for 300,000 shares of Common Stock exercisable by the lenders within 90 days at $9.00 per share . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Accustom the eye to perceive the relation of one line to another by the angles by which they intersect each other . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This sum was increased to £7,500 for causes of action accruing on or after 1 April 1991 by the Damages for Bereavement ( Variation of Sum ) Order 1990 and can be further varied by the Lord Chancellor by order made by statutory instrument ( s1A(5) ) . |
| 30 | However , many townsmen were reasonably well-off by the standards of the time and were able to rebuild their modest dwellings . |