Example sentences of "[noun pl] and by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the earliest military initiatives of the new state — the raising of an expeditionary force to suppress the Irish rebellion — was partly motivated both by security considerations and by the prospect of financial gain , but was also widely seen as a religious crusade ; this fact was clearly demonstrated in the autumn of 1649 , when Cromwell 's soldiers attacked the Catholic inhabitants of Drogheda and Wexford with a savagery which only religious conflict can engender . |
| 2 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 3 | Throughout the I930s the parliamentary situation was complicated by these divisions within the major parties and by the aftermath of the disintegration of the Liberals and the defection of MacDonald in 1931 . |
| 4 | Werewolf proceeded to try and blow all four stereo speakers and by the time he had the volume where he wanted it , and was playing along on his air guitar , we were through Sidcup and heading for the motorway . |
| 5 | Even before the final settlement was reached , Montgomerie , disillusioned by William 's stalling tactics and by the fact that his own personal political ambitions had been frustrated , turned to plotting , attempting to build up an alliance of Club members and Jacobites who would be able to " bring home King James in a Parliamentary way " . |
| 6 | Enclosed monks and nuns , hermits and anchoresses , were sought out by the secular clergy and by the laity for advice and help . |
| 7 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 8 | The nature of operations is illustrated by the closure of Howard Doris with 650 job losses and by the experience of Charlton Leslie offshore which , in June 1987 , had only 11 employees , down from a previous total of 700 , but on receipt of a new order expanded to some 300 in partnership with McNulty Offshore . |
| 9 | Done really effectively there should be few , if indeed any , survivors and by a continuation of this method big areas of woodland can be tackled efficiently . |
| 10 | I was there for nearly six months and by the end of the first week , I wanted to die . |
| 11 | Erm you get most of your you know you The amount of weight and height you put on from say , nought to six months and then six months to two months and by the time you 've got to about eight or something . |
| 12 | SP/32 anticipates adding AIX and HP clients and by the middle of next year will come up with a Unix server model for Sun , IBM , HP , Ultrix and perhaps Alpha OSF/1 . |
| 13 | I imagine they 'll be woken at Easter by their hormones and by the sound of the Mr Whippy ice cream vans in the street . |
| 14 | Backed by summary jurisdiction applied by local justices in the provinces and by the excise commissioners in London , its ability to secure conviction against evaders was , by eighteenth-century standards , astonishing . |
| 15 | Even specimens which have a sparse covering of spinelets and therefore resemble G. arcticus can be distinguished by the multipointed crown of the spinelets and by the occurrence of spinelets in the interradial areas . |
| 16 | ‘ New client publishers are judged by the complementary nature of their lists and by the quality of the relationship , rather than by the potential turnover that may be gained , ’ Mr Binns comments . |
| 17 | The dysfunctional force of this distinction between education and training has been reinforced by the binary system of state and public schools and by the belief in a ‘ classic ’ non-vocational education as a gold standard or jewel in the crown against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged . |
| 18 | In fact , they have been accompanied by a massive redistribution of population away from the largest cities to smaller settlements and more rural areas and by an acceleration of the drift from North to South . |
| 19 | The government wants to stimulate new industry in these areas both by encouraging the growth and development of new companies and by the expansion of existing companies . |
| 20 | The indifference of the electorate was blamed partly on the apathy produced by this being the fourth election in 18 months , by the confusing number of different party slates and by the lack of concrete proposal and programmes from the candidates . |
| 21 | Whilst the experiment was limited to trainee engineers and by the type of microcomputer used , the results of this investigation indicated that : 1 ) the mode of man-machine interaction which was most popular and has the fewest dissenters , was one in which the user directed the course of action , as in the modular program ; 2 ) a fast design time was most likely to be achieved by the use of an optimization technique ; 3 ) an optimum design was most likely to be achieved by a preprogrammed optimization technique , but only where the problem , design parameters and constraints were understood ; 4 ) the technique thought most likely to allow some gaining of insight was one in which the user has control of the program , as in the modular program . |
| 22 | To understand the year-to-year changes of sea level , we need to understand the ocean circulation and how it is driven by winds and by the balance of tropical warming and polar cooling . |
| 23 | They have waited in an unattractive waiting room for long periods and by the time they reach a counter are at breaking-point . |
| 24 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
| 25 | Very soon this rigidity starts to restrict movements and by the time we reach old age we can barely get around . |
| 26 | But encouraging and rewarding reliance are not always of decisive importance ; it is sometimes better to leave some matter unregulated by convention in order to allow the play of independent judgment both by judges and by the public in anticipation of what judges might do . |
| 27 | We 'd stock up the shelves and by the middle of the afternoon all that would be left would be size 14s in puce and some size fives that maybe a girl would pop in and buy for a party just before we shut . |
| 28 | The ruling has been attacked by local shopkeepers and by a member of the town council . |
| 29 | Thames TV chief executive Richard Dunn said on Sunday : ‘ The new channel will get a fast and economic start by using one of Thames ’ Astra transponders and by the use of some of Thames ' broadcasting assets . ’ |
| 30 | Observation and assessment confirmed that Gary was indeed showing all these behaviours , but also revealed that they were being heavily reinforced by attention from his parents and by the fact that the shouting and temper tantrums usually resulted in Gary 's getting his own way . |