Example sentences of "marked by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | L&SE went out with a bang rather than a whimper. 12 May was marked by the introduction of no less than four new electric services ; on the Eastern Region branch lines between Wickford and Southminster and between Romford and Upminster ; on the Great Eastern main line between Manningtree and Harwich ; and ( at last ) over the thirty-two miles between Tonbridge and Hastings . |
| 2 | In the normal course of building and landscaping , the division between two adjoining cottages is marked by the internal wall which separates the two dwellings . |
| 3 | His conference speech was marked by the absence of any reference to membership of the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) , and in a BBC interview he added that he would have ‘ no announcement to make about that ’ in his key speech at the Mansion House next week . |
| 4 | The lower substage of barbarism is common and is marked by the discovery of pottery , but the middle substage is marked by agriculture and the domestication of plants in the new world , and by pastoralism and the domestication of animals in the old . |
| 5 | The upper substage is marked by the discovery of iron smelting and the invention of alphabetic writing . |
| 6 | This stage , according to Morgan and Engels , is marked by the limiting of pairing to one generation only . |
| 7 | The end of the Second World War is marked by the incipient commodification of social life , and as such ‘ the disintegration of the Modernist conjuncture ’ ( pp. 60 — 1 ) . |
| 8 | The route had been marked by the reconnaissance platoon ; even so , as they moved at speed past each key point vehicle commanders glanced at their maps to check their progress . |
| 9 | Head down to the Grand'Place ( marked by the finger on the map ) to look at the glittering gilt-laden guild houses from the age of Rubens . |
| 10 | This very early phase of the Bronze Age was also marked by the appearance of a distinctive ceramic form called the Beaker , which also lends its name to this period of transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age . |
| 11 | Still deeply marked by the folk-memory of the Depression , they looked kindly upon Keynesianism and would do almost anything to avoid the dangers of mass unemployment . |
| 12 | The period immediately following Mozart 's return from Vienna in 1773 was marked by the composition of a large number of symphonies . |
| 13 | The Syrians ensured the continuation of Maronite rule by arranging for the installation of Elias Sarkis , a banker of political probity whose rule was to be marked by the further collapse of the country he promised to save . |
| 14 | These were at-home years of high purpose , tough conditions , and not very much humour — marked by the austere image of Stafford Cripps , of whom Churchill observed ‘ There but for the Grace of God , goes God . ’ |
| 15 | The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing . |
| 16 | The end of the night was marked by the heliacal rising of a particular star . |
| 17 | The early life of their son , Henry II , was marked by the wrangle between Stephen and Matilda for the sovereignty of England . |
| 18 | The King 's displeasure with the two counties was marked by the order that all church bells be confiscated . |
| 19 | At home the outbreak of hostilities was marked by the ferry service being terminated at 8.00pm , two hours early . |
| 20 | The occasion was marked by the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in the hall of the College in Camden Town by Professor Clifford Formston . |
| 21 | All over the south and south-west of England and up into the midlands and the borders of Wales we may encounter ancient hill forts on hill tops or upper slopes , still marked by the visible line of prehistoric ditches . |
| 22 | It was already a city of churches beyond counting ; and although trade came to it — including trade in the relics of saints — and a little industry , its permanent character was marked by the tourist traffic , of visitors to the shrines of the apostles and the countless martyrs of Rome , and to the papal court . |
| 23 | Like his early walks in the Vale of Glamorgan , his latest travels have been marked by the study of churches . |
| 24 | They moved into the first , pitch black canyon , faintly lit by a Poacher 's Moon , their passage marked by the persistent bleeping of the detector . |
| 25 | From then on life is marked by the search for an answer which will meet the need and prove trustworthy . |
| 26 | Although many of the houses were originally built earlier , development in the 18th century is marked by the numerous date stones on property about the village , the earliest being 1746 . |
| 27 | This means that , since σ 1 is non-basic in P1/LP5 , it can be eliminated and the σ 1 -column can be dropped , as marked by the asterisk . |
| 28 | Warburton of 69 Squadron undertook a reconnaissance over Southern Italy to seek the results of Operation ‘ Colossus ’ , but this day was marked by the first appearance over the island of 7/JG 26 . |
| 29 | The date was also marked by the announcement of the award of the D.F.M. to the veteran fighter pilot Sgt. Fred Robertson , whose personal score over the island now stood at eight . |
| 30 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |