Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delving in the archives one is struck by the frequent references to shortage of funds , a situation which , unfortunately , still applies today . |
| 2 | The towering cliffs , rising to a vertical 350 feet below the lighthouse and to 800 feet in places to the east , are the highest in mainland Britain and are virgin , just as they were sculptured , and explored only by the countless seabirds to which they are home . |
| 3 | One method which has previously been tried , albeit unsuccessfully , seeks to invoke principles of international law that would allegedly relieve taxpayers from their liability to pay tax on the ground that their assessments are rendered invalid by the unlawful purposes to which the taxes levied are to be applied . |
| 4 | The privileged position of statutory undertakers was further reduced in 1973 when a code of practice was agreed between departments and commended by the appropriate ministers to statutory undertakers . |
| 5 | The use of this term is inaccurate and misleading because the fact is that the recorders are required by the appropriate regulations to be painted a brilliant colour so that the investigators can find them more easily in the wreckage . |
| 6 | The British legal system is already in a bit of a sorry state but this is only part of the story because we are faced with a creaking Government bureaucracy that has often been shown by the Higher Courts to be acting in an illegal and unfair manner . |
| 7 | The decision by the Financial Times to back Labour for the first time since 1966 was attacked by Sir John Banham , director general of the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 8 | Perhaps these were the monoliths worshipped by the aboriginal Gaunches to which they offered sacrifices of milk , honey and sheep fat . |
| 9 | The first defendants lent a grinding tool owned by the second defendants to the plaintiff . |
| 10 | Under the Third Republic coded diplomatic telegrams were passed as a matter of course to the French foreign office by the postal authorities to be decoded and read ; and this activity reached a climax in the first years of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | The ash cloud reached over 15,000 metres in height and was carried by the prevailing winds to the north-east , into Argentina . |
| 12 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 13 | When headmen 's posts became vacant , many were sold by the chief headmen to the highest bidder . |
| 14 | For twenty paces you can feel your way along by the low walls to your right . |
| 15 | There have been reports of extrajudicial executions , killings and mutilations of civilians or captured members of armed forces and of the torture or ill-treatment of people detained by the various parties to the conflict . |
| 16 | On Feb. 3 the 70-year old Italian Communist Party ( PCI ) was formally dissolved by the 1,500 delegates to its congress in Rimini , and reconstituted as the Democratic Party of the Left ( Partito Democratico della Sinistra — PDS ) . |
| 17 | Are we going to withdraw from the risk of being contaminated by the modern alternatives to following Jesus ? |
| 18 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 19 | Westward of the Duomo across the Piazza del Duomo , one of the finest sweeps of paved pedestrian walkway in Europe and , thankfully , not badly scarred by the two entrances to the new Metro Line 3 , is a monument to Vittorio Emanuele II , a bronze equestrian statue by Ercole Rosa dating from 1896 . |
| 20 | Vogel 's watercolours were taken by the occupying forces to Germany but in 1946 were successfully claimed back and returned . |
| 21 | For instance , if we take the basic wage paid by the largest firms to be 100 , firms in the two smallest size bands pay 78 per cent and 52 per cent of these rates . |
| 22 | Practitioners should bear in mind the obligations under the rules to serve a statement of special damages with the statement or particulars of claim , as the case may be , and the Practice Note ( QBD ) ( Personal Injury Actions : Special Damage ) ( 1984 ) 1 August ( [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1127 ) which requires the service of particulars of special damage , in the form of a schedule if appropriate , so that the extent to which special damages are agreed may be indicated by the other parties to an action in advance of the trial . |
| 23 | A witness who refers to case records when testifying must submit them to examination by the other parties to the proceedings , if required , and runs the risk of being cross-examined on their contents . |
| 24 | There is no need to prove authenticity if this is admitted by the other parties to the proceedings . |
| 25 | As the year went by the economic sops to the peasantry provided by NEP began to have a relaxing effect on this class , but industrial unrest throughout Russia continued to rise . |
| 26 | Other contemporary ‘ strategic ’ decisions include the Green Paper on Radio ( 1986/7 ) , the proposed White Paper on broadcasting ( 1988 ) and , from 1987 , the Conservative Government 's intention to raise the percentage of independent productions broadcast by the existing organizations to 25% . |
| 27 | In these circumstances , a futures market may convey some more of the information possessed by the informed traders to the uninformed . |
| 28 | Their action effectively scuppered six years of negotiations , since all decisions taken by the 22 signatories to the 1959 Washington Treaty — the framework for the political and environmental protection of Antarctica - must be unanimous . |
| 29 | One man who had got himself clear in that way drove in his own carriage by the very commissioners to whom he had but lately surrendered , and splashed both them and his creditors with the dirt of his chariot wheels . |
| 30 | Western journalists were taken by the Iraqi authorities to the site , where more than 300 bodies — including those of at least 91 children — were recovered , many burnt beyond recognition , and it was feared that many others remained buried in the wreckage . |