Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun] that " in BNC.

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1 The two days of scheduled meetings were deadlocked , however , by the Japanese insistence that North Korea open its nuclear facilities to international inspection in line with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which North Korea signed in 1985 .
2 In this sense , it is unlike Barrie 's Neverland — a place which , however fantastical and fey , is governed by the alternative rules that must underpin any convincing alternative universe .
3 In this sense , it is unlike Barrie 's Neverland — a place which , however fantastical and fey , is governed by the alternative rules that must underpin any convincing alternative universe .
4 A corrective is needed , however , to the impression that state enterprise management is entirely conditioned by the political forces that impinge upon it .
5 Again Wexford was becoming bemused by the colours , by the seductive spectrum that caught and held his eye wherever he looked .
6 The symmetry of his body and the smoothness of his movements were thrown out of balance by the slight bulge that heaved one shoulder out of line with its fellow .
7 Thus there is every indication that the Cubans , stung by the ignominious discovery that Moscow 's attitude towards dependent Third World allies was not significantly different from Washington 's in the context of superpower relations , managed to extract significant compensation ( both material and symbolic ) for the slight .
8 ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any .
9 The Church 's great feasts , organized by the lay brotherhoods that canalized so much popular piety in Castile , were the expression of the corporate existence of a town .
10 Reduced to speechlessness by the conflicting emotions that tore at her , she found herself meekly following where her whispering ‘ captor ’ led .
11 The ruling by the European Court that the British law does not break EC rules leaves the whole business in chaos .
12 In this case it was held by the European Court that where the Community has exercised an express internal power , the corresponding external powers , that is , the power to negotiate an international agreement relating to external aspects of the same matter , fell within Community competence .
13 BRITAIN 'S safety arrangements for pesticides is in disarray following a ruling by the European Commission that the voluntary code , which is operated by the industry , is a breach of the EEC 's rules on free trade .
14 Their happiness was to be destroyed by the heart-rending realisation that Kimberly was not his child .
15 Soviet interest was aroused by the Iranian view that ‘ there will have to be guarantees that neither the Americans nor American surrogates substitute for the departing Russians ’ , that the problem of Afghanistan should not be solved in the East/West context .
16 Plainly by the defensive introduction that you have written in the results publication , we are not the only people wondering whether the BAIE is nothing more than a self-serving cabal .
17 Win Morgan smiled with a flash of humour that was rare because she was a woman grown old before her time , worn by the constant pain of her bone ache and wearied by the persistent cough that racked her .
18 ‘ She told me she and Mellor had long chats about politics , and that it had been suggested by the Prime Minister that at the end of the year Mellor would be made the new Party chairman . ’
19 ‘ It is recognised by the Prime Minister that the recovery will initially be slow and patchy … in time , it should give rise to sustainable economic growth and the creation of new jobs . ’
20 On the other hand I was assured by the Lord Chancellor and by the Prime Minister that the Cabinet would be perfectly happy to work either under me or Alec Home .
21 Now cheap low sulphur coal is being imported ( after a statement by the Prime Minister that this option would not be acceptable to the people of Britain ) , gas is being burned , and only 8,000 MW is being fitted with FGD. 14 .
22 It was on the fifteenth of April that they waylaid the lord of Parfois on his own ground , in the thick copse of scrub-oak and brushwood threaded by the narrow path that linked the main approach of the castle with the highway to Shrewsbury .
23 ‘ Crying In The Chapel ’ was first recorded by C&W singer Darrell Glenn in 1953 and immediately covered by The Orioles , a group headed by the glorious voice that was Sonny Tills .
24 Any ‘ stable world ’ it presents is further overwhelmed by the progressive revelation that each narrator exists only as an imaginative device of a subsequent one , in a succession of evasions leading towards the unnamable author and the depths of an impulse to articulate , which can neither rest nor ever consummate its desires .
25 Rain continued to sweep into the cottage , driven by the strong wind that screamed around the building .
26 I am encouraged by the fact that President Moi has expressed his willingness to move towards multi-party democracy , and by the recent indications that fresh general elections may be held early next year .
27 If the Government are confident that quality will not be affected by the financial pressures that they are imposing on higher education to cut the inward resource year after year , the answer is to ensure that the inspectorate for higher education is wholly independent of the funding system and solely concerned with the issue of quality .
28 It has been suggested that the growth of environmentalism was stimulated by the anti-materialistic philosophy that found its expression in neo-Lamarckism .
29 Today 's Stagisti , guided by the mechanical tragedies that befell their hapless predecessors , know that preventive maintenance is the key to dependability .
30 Of course I take account of feeling in the area ; but , as I said earlier , I also take account of the way in which feeling has been influenced by the misleading statements that have been put about over recent months .
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