Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [coord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The most pernicious aspect of ageism is not that which is present in the minds and attitudes of individuals , but that which is confirmed and reinforced by the functions and rules of everyday social life . |
2 | This nature is defined by the functions and aims ( not necessarily conscious aims ) of the creature in question ’ ( 52–3 ) . |
3 | Those who thought him in error became the co-traitors of his personal mythology , the Bloomsbury ‘ mice ’ , who would be ‘ cleaned up ’ by the truncheons and boots of the new heroes , once the Fascist revolution had been accomplished in England . |
4 | Present them with a vision of a world in which meals were eaten at a table instead of on the knees before the flickering screen ; in which conversation was commonplace ; political and social ideas worked out by individuals , not spoon-fed into the mind by paid commentators ; a TV-less world in which we danced and sang and played charades to entertain ourselves or even popped round to the neighbours ; in which our children were not fed visions of death and dead bodies on the daily news , their infant imaginations no longer turned feverish and fearful by the sobs and sorrows of the bereaved ; nor subject to the cruel , disagreeable and frequently morbid fictional fantasies of others — would we not really vote for this ? |
5 | Mr Gray said Century Hutchinson accepted that Lord Aldington was ‘ a brave and dedicated officer with a deservedly distinguished war record and that at all times he was conscientiously seeking to implement the orders of higher commands without suspicion that atrocities would be committed by the Soviets and Titoists ’ . |
6 | The groups formed by the females and kids are small , and solitary animals , usually males , are far from uncommon . |
7 | He worked in Europe , the USSR and North and Latin America and covered such important events as the storming of Berlin by the Russians and Poles in 1945 , the Potsdam Conference , the Nuremberg Trials and many post-war Summit Conferences . |
8 | In the other cases , part of the tax is felt by the producers or suppliers in the form of the lower prices that would have obtained if VAT did not apply . |
9 | The exercise of this delegated authority by the headteacher is circumscribed by the processes and structures outlined . |
10 | The thin man returned to his earlier plan that they should cut loose the horses and make their way back as inconspicuously as possible by the paths and game-tracks . |
11 | Often the good qualities can be hidden by the problems and parents need help in changing their emphasis on bad behaviour to good behaviour . |
12 | As he grows older he is naturally nearer to the world outside school ; he is ready to demand a good reason for doing whatever he is asked to do ; and he is extremely easily distracted by the problems and dramas of his own life and hard times . |
13 | It seems that the mode of politics in any situation is governed as much by the actors and interests involved , as by the geographical scale at which it takes place . |
14 | The details of the story of this major theory change , a change that took place over one and a half centuries , do not lend support to the methodologies advocated by the inductivists and falsificationists , and indicate a need for a different , more complexly structured account of science and its growth . |
15 | The most determined resistance of all was put up by the Koryaks and Chukchis of the north-east , who faced a fierce and explicitly genocidal Russian campaign up to the 1750s . |
16 | During one of the meetings for negotiation , King Charles introduced a proposal which had been submitted by the Independents and Anabaptists calling for freedom of worship . |
17 | Moreover , even of the rulers who were more strongly and self-consciously influenced than Maria Theresa and Charles III by the attitudes and assumptions of the Enlightenment none , with the exception of Catherine II , regarded himself as absolute in any complete sense . |
18 | From this standpoint racism appears to be a matter of individual prejudice which , even when institutionalized , is ultimately sustained by the attitudes and actions of racists . |
19 | An assumption of the research is that the experience of unemployed people is , to one degree or another , shaped by the attitudes and opinions of the working population . |
20 | Most of the Committee 's recommendations were speedily implemented in the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958 , which was amended by the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1966 . |
21 | by the canals and office-blocks of Carthage . |
22 | Most rock critics take this line , seeing Elvis 's career as a progressive sell-out to the music industry , a transition from ‘ folk ’ authenticity ( the Sun singles of 1954–5 ) to a sophisticated professionalism ( epitomized by the ballads and movies of the 1960s ) in which the dollars multiplied but musical values went by the board . |
23 | ‘ I have had to develop my own identity through having something to fight against , trying to stay true to my ideals as an artist and not allowing that to be compromised by the opinions and attitudes of others . |
24 | In fact the municipal system as at present constituted is an astonishing block of power , controlled by professionals who run the schools and the social services , and by the administrators and councillors who operate the machine in a bureaucratic darkness rarely pierced by public inspection ’ ( Walker , 1983 , p. 4 ) . |
25 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
26 | In music dating from the 11th century to the present day , each major festival in the church 's calendar was celebrated by the singers and instrumentalists of Musica Sacra , directed by Ann Pinhey . |
27 | After a brief search , I found it tucked into a corner , guarded by the pikes and pennants of the Twenty-First Lancers . |
28 | After reports in the Washington Post that the ICRC and UN field workers had hired several thousand local " mercenaries " to protect food distribution operations , the ICRC on May 8 issued a statement to the effect that " local relief committees " organized by the clans and sub-clans were acting as a " police force " ; a small amount of the food aid was to be given them as " food for work " . |
29 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
30 | She was making serwal — pantaloons , the jodhpur-like underpants worn by the women and children which tie at the waist , fasten at the ankle and are loose , cool and comfortable . |