Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " 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 | Colour for summer ‘ 93 is defined by the trend towards naturals — skin tones , neutrals and pale legwear are set against outerwear 's neutral classics . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A proposal for an internationally supervised ceasefire put forward by the FMLN on Nov. 22 was rejected the following day by Cristiani , who , however , offered on Dec. 10 to renew peace talks . |
| 8 | Exchange in such a commodity with Spain may explain the amount of Anglo-Saxon metalwork in the Bordeaux region of south-west France ( Leeds 1953 ) , as at Herpes-en-Charente , as well as the Frankish interest in the area expressed by the campaigns of Clovis from the late fifth century onwards ( James 1977 ) . |
| 9 | A recent lead article reported on a seminar organised by the CSC for pastors and other church leaders on sexually transmitted diseases , including AIDS , homosexuality and prostitution . |
| 10 | The soldiers and police guarding the gate heard , ‘ By the wires of Greenham , we sit down and weep , weep for this our land ’ . |
| 11 | Appearing before a Senate committee that was pondering ‘ the general area ’ of China and its implications , an official of the State Department said of the fund : ‘ It might be used in other areas of the Far East which are affected by the developments in China . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the notion of intervention by the crown of France as a result of default or denial of justice by a magnate , even by a peer of France or his officers , had begun to develop . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The inspectors , appointed by the Crown in order to avoid governmental interference , had right of access to virtually any chemical company . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A disciplined band of anti-capitalist men in every town , animated by the faith of Cromwell 's soldiers , could sweep away the rottenness that besets our country . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Explanations of the contrast are framed by the tradition of group loyalty and consensus formation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The assertion is supposedly absolved of its racist and ethnocentric connotations by the neutrality of literacy . |
| 26 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 27 | I was dazzled by the clarity of Jean-Claude 's music . |
| 28 | But just as the people in Exodus 16 , when first given the manna , found it hard to come to terms with God 's meticulous generosity , so now they are blinded by the clarity of God 's judgement . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1153 Frederick I , by the pact of Constance , promised not to make a truce with the two other groups that threatened the papacy — the Romans and the ruler , Roger of Sicily . |