Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Keep it ! ’ she blazed as he tossed it on to the terrace by the front door . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | After a minute or two Crane appeared leading a horse by a broken rein . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A Treaty Too Far by Michael Spicer , MP for South Worcestershire has a forward by the High Priestess of anti-Federalism , Lady Thatcher . |
| 12 | Although libraries may classify new stock by the latest edition of DC , earlier editions remain important because many libraries are reluctant to reclassify , and thus leave stock classified according to earlier editions long after they have been superseded . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the centre was the velour package of diamonds , framed on each side by a half-pound block of tacky beige substance . |
| 15 | It appears to be bounded on the west side by a considerable ditch running down the hill slope . |
| 16 | Altair is flanked to either side by a fainter star , Gamma or Tarazed and Beta ( 3.7 ) ; Gamma is a K-type star , very clearly orange when seen in binoculars . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It has been cut on the south side by the modern lane approaching the ‘ villa ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Crawford played Constable Gough , a young policeman who is sent to a boarding-house to investigate a revenge murder by a jilted girl . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is important to stress that enterprise zones were regarded as a political experiment by the Conservative government elected in 1979 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The controversy was given an authoritative boost by the 1976 report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution , chaired by Sir Brian Flowers , Rector of Imperial College and a part-time member of the Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 28 | An application to join the coalition by a Sarawak-based party , Persatuan Rakyat Malaysian Sarawak ( Permas — the Malaysian Sarawak Party ) , was rejected and the decision to admit the Terengganu-based Parti Ikatan Masyarakat Islam ( Islamic Alliance Party ) was deferred . |
| 29 | The bloody attempt to kidnap Princess Anne on the Mall just yards from Buckingham Palace and the successful break-in to the Queen 's bedroom by an unemployed labourer , Michael Fagan were ample proof of the constant danger the royal family faced . |
| 30 | An elegant environment is created in the bedroom by the attractive wallpaper with its fine blue and white stripes , the delicate Chinese hand-embroidered bed linen and the complementary patterned curtains which are by Dorma . |