Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] laws [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 2 | There must be an ultimate limit to the speed at which a cheetah or a gazelle can run , a limit imposed by the laws of physics . |
| 3 | It is a dilemma inherent in the dramatic difference in intensity between outgoing sound and returning echo , a difference that is inexorably imposed by the laws of physics . |
| 4 | We seem to have another unfortunate trade-off imposed by the laws of physics . |
| 5 | The life of the farming families here has been harsh for hundreds of years but this harshness has been intensified by the laws on land inheritance and land revenue introduced by the British , which have already been described . |
| 6 | The physical sciences had developed quite dramatically in the previous half-century , when such apparently disparate phenomena as heat and energy were unified by the laws of thermodynamics , while electricity , magnetism and even light itself converged towards a single analytical model . |
| 7 | 20.2 This Agreement and all matters arising out of it shall in all respects be governed by the Laws of England . |
| 8 | 19.1 This Agreement and all matters arising out of it shall in all respects be governed by the Laws of England . |
| 9 | Later , in 1894 , Max Rubner ( 1854–1932 ) demonstrated that the quantity of energy extracted from food by the body is largely determined by the laws of thermodynamics . |
| 10 | The way the universe would begin would be determined by the laws of science . |
| 11 | The initial configuration of the universe may have been chosen by God , or it may itself have been determined by the laws of science . |
| 12 | But if everything is determined by the laws of science , then free will must be an illusion , and if we do n't have free will , what is the basis for our responsibility for our actions ? |
| 13 | And we realize that the initial state may itself have been determined by the laws of science . |
| 14 | Finds from the wreck are covered by the laws of salvage . |
| 15 | In the 1940's Khomeini published his view that the clergy must ensure that secular rule is limited by the laws of Islam . |
| 16 | For writers like Altvater , Muller and Neususs , Holloway and Picciotto , Hirsch , Offe , and Gerstenberger , while the role of the state is limited by the laws of capital accumulation ( the state can only redistribute wealth once profits have been made ) and the imperatives of capital that must be maintained , the role of the state in modern capitalism is not to defend the interests of a ruling class on every specific but to provide for the interests of capital ‘ in general ’ . |
| 17 | This metaphysical commitment came under scrutiny not only from those artists who refused to be limited by the laws of perspective but also from ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ’ . |
| 18 | Provided that the above rules of base pairing are guaranteed by the laws of chemistry , it is easy to see how replication gives rise to two daughter molecules identical to the original one . |
| 19 | Ellwood asked a lot of questions ; Piper told him a great deal about how the universe was ordered by the laws of music . |