Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The very high level of demand for labour was maintained throughout the late sixties and early seventies by the trend of capital accumulation . |
2 | The threat of greater competition brought about by the trend towards government curtailment of professional monopolies and relaxation of advertising rules means that refusing to contemplate the idea of incorporation could entail a heavy loss of business . |
3 | At any moment the fortunes of ICI are more likely to be affected by the trend in exchange rates , or oil prices , or the budgetary policies of the United States of America , or the attitude to international trade of the Japanese , than by things which are more directly within our own control . |
4 | This new field of local political research was stimulated by an increase in local authority activity , especially in housing and urban renewal , in the 1960s and early 1970s , as well as by the responses of community groups . |
5 | But that case was the subject of research by Mr. Glick and his team , and was revealed ( from the reports in Lofft 655 and in the State Trials 20 St.Tr. 239 ) to be a cause celebre in which the great issue ( of immense public interest ) related to the power to levy taxes in the island of Grenada following its capture from the French King , it being accepted by the Crown without argument that the relevant taxes , if not duly levied , must be repaid . |
6 | Woolwich did not suggest that the difference between the treatment of voluntary and compulsory payments was wrong , rather did the principle involve the proposition that an unlawful demand by the Crown for tax or other similar impost per se implied a measure of compulsion or duress which entitled the payer to recover . |
7 | ‘ Upon review of medical evidence regarding HIV and AIDS together with the evidence of the complainants , I am satisfied that the arguments as presented by the Crown with respect to the vitiation of consent to unprotected sex with the accused are sufficiently persuasive for me to conclude there is some evidence upon which a jury , properly instructed , could … convict of aggravated sexual assault . ’ |
8 | It is the fact that when people and territory previously ruled by the Crown in Parliament become a separate and independent state , we do not , because we can not , endow it with a statehood like our own . |
9 | The inspectors , appointed by the Crown in order to avoid governmental interference , had right of access to virtually any chemical company . |
10 | These entries related to royal debts assigned to Elijah by way of compensation for debts pardoned by the Crown in favour of the abbey of Stratford , and the alterations allegedly had the effect of enriching Elijah at the Crown 's expense . |
11 | This was an appeal by the Crown by leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Lane C.J. , Hutchison and Mantell JJ. ) from its decision on 22 April 1991 allowing an appeal by the defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his conviction at Isleworth Crown Court ( Mr. Recorder Bassingthwaighte ) on two counts of theft , the defendant having on 20 April 1990 pleaded guilty on re-arraignment to one count and on 24 April 1990 been found guilty by verdict of a jury on a further count . |
12 | It is assisted by the tradition of knowledge that values perception and disdains sensation , maintaining that what we feel is less important than our awareness of reality . |
13 | Explanations of the contrast are framed by the tradition of group loyalty and consensus formation . |
14 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
15 | Having said this , there is emotion in Owen 's other poems , but the emotion is created in the reader by the description of war , while in this , the grief and bitterness of the poet is more openly expressed . |
16 | The assertion is supposedly absolved of its racist and ethnocentric connotations by the neutrality of literacy . |
17 | Morning and afternoon sessions were mainly taken up with the business of the Union and these were highlighted by the clarity of reporting and the general agreement of delegates to the proposals put forward . |
18 | The whole house would be consumed by the fever of haytime , the fear of broken weather until every wisp was won . |
19 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
20 | Although portal pressure is determined by the interrelationship of blood flow and vascular resistance , it is generally accepted that portal hypertension is initiated by an increased resistance to portal blood flow . |
21 | She was blasted by the friction of re-entry , scorched by her wild rush through particles and atoms of welcoming air , hurled through the orbiting phase . |
22 | It is difficult to see how any of the dramatic problems of the modern world thrown up by the exhaustion of Fordism — can be solved unless there is some sort of co-operation among major and lesser powers and some sort of political involvement of those groups and movements that articulate concern about these global problems . |
23 | They ate in silence , broken only by the clatter of cutlery and requests for the salt . |
24 | The difficulty experienced by the abbot of Fécamp in getting a decision on this small point has both a general and a particular interest . |
25 | They took Rye and then attacked Winchelsea , but found it heavily defended by the Abbot of Battle . |
26 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
27 | ‘ Have you ever tried a cold egg-and-breadcrumbed veal cutlet eaten in the fingers — holding it by the bone of course ? ’ |
28 | However , this is not the end of the matter for the scope of this withdrawal of immunity is limited by the remainder of section 17 , which provides three routes through which secondary action may finally be held to be not unlawful . |
29 | But when Dr Dee ( a scientist too aware of his Welsh descent to want to use the word ‘ English ’ ) wrote about the British Empire in the 1570s he was discussing the prospect of possessions beyond the seas , which were likely to be linked to England by the bond of allegiance to the sovereign more than by anything else . |
30 | New trade routes may be traced by the spread of metalworking skills and the import of rare and exotic materials such as gemstones and ivory for jewellery . |