Example sentences of "and [adj] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smoke purled out of his nostrils , taken this way and that by the breeze . |
| 2 | But again , cultural context makes the crucial difference : the appropriation of the romantic , the utopian , and the polymorphous for what has hitherto been marginal , and both demonized and repressed by the centre , and internalized as such at the margins , has quite different effects and implications trom , say , a more general ( post/modern ? ) theory that ‘ anything goes anywhere ’ . |
| 3 | Soon after it was built , it was left high and dry by a storm and thereafter was used as a signalling tower by Blandy 's . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |
| 5 | She was continually amazed and depressed by the way that the neighbourhood accepted and appeared to respect her mother 's self-erected authority ; none of them did as her mother did , and yet they all deferred to the solidity of her principles . |
| 6 | Feeling a little frightened of the dead body behind him in the cart , and depressed by the autumn fog , he stopped for some beer at a pub , where he met Jan Coggan and Laban Tall . |
| 7 | We are challenged to recognise , first , that power is involved in non-decision-making , in inaction , and in non-participation , and , second , that interests are advantaged and disadvantaged by the fact that certain issues are not on the governmental agenda for complicated reasons that take us behind the scenes of the public face of policy-making and into the murky waters of the constraining role of ideas in society . |
| 8 | The Republic of Haiti , which achieved independence from France in 1804 , was ruled between 1957 and 1971 by the President for Life , François Duvalier , and then by his son , Jean-Claude , who fled abroad in 1986 after a period of prolonged popular unrest . |
| 9 | The same happened to Foxley Wood ( Hampshire ) and Tillingham Hall ( Essex ) , new towns that would have been a dream come true for some people , but which were deemed unjustifiable and unnecessary by the Government inspector of planning appeals . |
| 10 | She also suggested raising a fund to relieve the poor and unemployed by a levy on all letters or contracts , and called for drastic simplification of the laws and the establishment of local courts . |
| 11 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 12 | Bearing all this in mind , it may be helpful to those who are still open to suggestions to try to work out with them some very simple menus for a seven-day period ; meals which will suit their pocket , entail little expenditure of energy , but at the same time cover all their basic dietary requirements , and which can be made tasty and interesting by the addition of some of the sauces , seasonings , and flavourings will which you can supply them . |
| 13 | She proved both wrong , getting richer and lovelier by the hour . |
| 14 | In order to help fund the costs of unification the West German federal government and the Länder ( states ) agreed on May 16 to set up a German Unity Fund to raise DM95,000 million ( US$1.00=DM1.6443 as at May 14 , 1990 ) on the capital markets over the ensuing 4@1/2 years ( half to be raised by federal government and half by the Länder ) . |
| 15 | By the time that Baldwin again met the TUC representatives , at 9 p.m. , he was , by the will of the Cabinet , a long way back from the position of the previous night , and embarrassed by the movement . |
| 16 | the Boat Race is a great British sporting occasion … untouched and untroubled by the march of time … no ticket touts or trouble … just thousands and thousands of people lining the banks of the Thames … the watches too … the boat race is still something special … |
| 17 | He 'd seen the face of Hapexamendios Himself , and half-crazed by the sight had been unable to resist the summons , and the binding , when it came . |
| 18 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 19 | At every step they fall back , foxed and flummoxed by the snow , tripping over buried buckets , breaking their shins on hidden cobbles . |
| 20 | Besides cups and bowls with chi-rho symbols and apparently Christian inscriptions , several leaf shaped plaques recall native Celtic votive objects , clearly transformed and Christianized by the incorporation of a chi-rho emblem . |
| 21 | The institution , summarised the 1840 General Anti-Slavery Convention , was a violation of ‘ the immutable principles of equity and justice , and sinful by the light of revealed religion . |
| 22 | Time , when I ask people in workshops what it is like being a teacher , they say they feel unappreciated : unappreciated within the school by seniors , colleagues and pupils , and unappreciated by the world at large — parents , politicians , pundits , the media . |
| 23 | The board of the Company consists of twelve directors , with three appointed by the BBC , three by independent television and six by the Speaker on behalf of the House . |
| 24 | ( Six of the 21 senators were designated by the President , nine by the government and six by the Leader of the Opposition ) . |
| 25 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 26 | During 1967 , 258 families had been provided with subsidised dwellings , 43 by the corporation and 215 by the NIHT ; this included 169 families rehoused from condemned properties , so that only 89 of these households represented an overall addition to the housing stock . |
| 27 | This admittedly circuitous line of reasoning is made necessary first by the undoubted presence of anachronisms in the Kanunname , as demonstrated by Dilger , and second by the fact that one does not meet the terms and in Taskopruzade , who is , of course , the principal , and indeed almost the only , source of information about the learned hierarchy before roughly 1550 . |
| 28 | There are hidden recesses , mature native woodlands , a tree-fringed river of great charm and many other surprises — narrow lanes between fragrant hedgerows , pleasant secluded paths and a scattering of isolated and attractive farmsteads , all enclosed by colourful hills and unfrequented by the weekend tourists . |
| 29 | Operated by traditional double-deck Standard cars , and untouched by the modernisation of the Thirties , the Marton route survived into the post-war era as something of an anachronism . |
| 30 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , 61 , a veteran politician but relatively unknown and untouched by the corruption scandal , was set to take over as interim President in early October . |