Example sentences of "spark off by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of all his interest in connections between worship of totemic plants , rain ceremonies , and modern life , it becomes clear why ‘ Gerontion ’ is sparked off by a passage from Benson 's Fitzgerald where Benson is quoting Fitzgerald . |
| 2 | It is possible that against a long-term downward movement of population , perhaps sparked off by a variety of economic concerns , the economic depression helped to determine the immediate attitudes in some of the old declining industrial centres just as the prospect of prosperity , and the accumulation of consumer goods and property , may have stimulated a desire to control family size among the population of the expanding industrial centres of the Midlands and the South East . |
| 3 | Whether this burning interest came from a transmigration from a previous existence I do not know , but it may have been sparked off by a small and relatively insignificant incident which occurred in the spring of 1929 . |
| 4 | The merger ‘ scramble ’ of l959–61 was largely sparked off by a bid by well-known takeover specialist Charles Clore for Watney Mann . |
| 5 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 6 | This was sparked off by a federal Collective State Presidency order on Jan. 9 , apparently aimed principally at republican-controlled forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which required that all " unauthorized " armed units should surrender their arms within 10 days to the JNA . |
| 7 | Amidst declining opportunities for casual work , the unrest was sparked off by a local government decision to end an emergency aid programme . |
| 8 | The murder could have been sparked off by a minor row leading to a slap or punch . |
| 9 | Tom Berenger 's ‘ Sgt Barnes ’ symbolised the brutalising effects of the war , but in this sequence Stone 's script was honest enough to show how unintended atrocity may be sparked off by an accidental chain of events . |
| 10 | ‘ It looks like a short-term reaction to a short-term situation , partially sparked off by the ridiculous reaction to the August trade figures , ’ Sir Trevor added . |
| 11 | The myth was probably sparked off by the existence of a St. Thomas ' Lane and Well in the town ( locations now unknown ) , the St. Thomas ' chapel in All Saints ' church , and the Hospital of St. Thomas and St. John ( now Lord Burghley 's Almshouses ) , which apparently had a chapel over the bridge . |
| 12 | ‘ It was ’ , he would read , ‘ inevitable that the Solidarity revolution was sparked off by the Gdansk shipyard workers . |
| 13 | Moreover , Keeble argued ( see section 2.4 ) that the shifts in the 1970s were due precisely to the counter-processes which can be sparked off by the concentration of development in a particular area . |
| 14 | Our concern about police investigations was sparked off by the realisation that the trial is not an adequate tool for testing their reliability , which in turn disqualifies the trial as a verifying test . |
| 15 | The crisis was sparked off by the arrest and dismissal on Feb. 19 of three Council members , namely Col. Thaabe Letsie , Lt.-Col. Joshua Sekhobe Letsie ( both cousins of the King ) and Col. Aloysius Kethang Mosoeunyane , and of the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications , Maj. Philip Moyani Mokhanto . |
| 16 | The reaction of Palestinians to the killing of seven labourers from Gaza by an apparently deranged Israeli civilian gave fresh impetus to the flagging uprising or intifada , itself originally sparked off by the killing of a similar group of Gaza labourers in December 1987 [ see pp. 35856-60 ] . |
| 17 | The unrest was sparked off by the arrest of a local policeman on charges of corruption . |
| 18 | It was sparked off by the rape of a schoolgirl at a school in northern Paris on Sept. 27 , and by other attacks in schools in the Paris area . |
| 19 | An Amoco spokesman described the evacuation as a ‘ controlled downmanning ’ although it had been sparked off by the early-morning emergency . |
| 20 | The strikes were sparked off by the rank and file , most were unofficial , and often they were resisted at the outset by national trade union leaderships . |
| 21 | The violence began on June 4 in the city of Osh , which had a majority Uzbek population , sparked off by a dispute over the use of farmland for housing ( the scarcity of housing in Central Asia had become a major political issue in recent years , and had already been a factor in ethnic violence between Uzbeks and Meskhetians in the nearby Fergana valley in June 1989 , and in rioting in Tadjikistan in February 1990 — see pp. 36744-45 ; 37256-57 ) . |
| 22 | The disclosures , which follow a fortnight of leaks sparked off by the Guardian 's revelation of the sweeteners scandal — show how far Lord Young was prepared to go to sell Rover to the private sector . |
| 23 | First , if I may paraphrase , ‘ Nuno is crap ’ and second , also paraphrasing , ‘ Trantec ads are crap ’ , sparked off by the correspondence on DOD ads . |
| 24 | The Nov. 5 assassination in New York of the extremist Jewish leader Meir Kahane [ see p. 37872 ] intensified tension and fuelled the spiralling violence in Israel and the occupied territories in November , sparked off by the Oct. 8 shooting of at least 17 Arabs at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem . |