Example sentences of "[art] [adj] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The Prudential was assessed to stamp duty on the consideration for both the land and all building works on the grounds that the two agreements were a single commercial transaction , the substance of which was the sale of the developed site to the Prudential by the developers .
2 It is made none the easier by the differences in approach used to analyze the nature of the problem .
3 In fact the tactics of the provos today are the same as those used in the 1940's by the Zionists .
4 Night had descended quite suddenly , and , as neither of them had bothered to switch on any lights , the house was in complete darkness , a darkness made all the heavier by the remnants of the storm outside .
5 This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings .
6 The former are bounded by the main stems of the principal Veins , and the latter by the branches of the forked veins .
7 The authority of medicine finally ousted Artemidorus 's invocations of antiquity or the increasingly muted references to the supernatural by the clergy , in explaining life 's ordinary ecstasies and tribulations .
8 Both factors are being exploited to the full by the Socialists .
9 But we get killed just the same by the Provies .
10 The newest machines were used by the administration and advertising staff , the oldest by the journalists .
11 We now had to grapple with problems of ethics , with questions of morality and of personal philosophy , as we tried to draw a simple police code of practice together to frame those new deviancies created in the 1960s by the Acts of Parliament relating to drug use .
12 Although the English savant Roger Bacon deciphered the composition of gunpowder in the thirteenth century , it was used in the twelfth by the Moors in wars in Spain and so was probably known to the troops of Barbarossa , perhaps as a terrible Moorish secret weapon .
13 It was strongly supported in the 1950s by the companies who purchased the cotton grown as a cash crop in the savannah , because it appeared to be the most effective way to reverse the declining fertility and falling yields which had become apparent by that time .
14 He expresses favouritism , not love , from one daughter to the next by the things they will do for him , a characteristic not correct in any parent .
15 According to German records the aircraft fell victim to A.A. fire ; it was in fact claimed as a probable by the guns , but was also attacked by Plt.Off .
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