Example sentences of "by [art] [adj -er] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But later he stigmatised them as ‘ the social scum , the passively rotting mass thrown off by the lower layers of the old society . ’ |
| 2 | The law also laid down " new principles for forming the power structure " of local authorities , specifying that only those functions which could not be performed by the lower tiers of government should be delegated to higher bodies . |
| 3 | The first is that reflexes are largely mediated by the lower parts of the brain , and the second is that they are less rigid than one might think . |
| 4 | The harshness of those living-conditions , with the special emphasis on working-class housewives having to feed , clothe and generally look after a large family , was reflected by the lower standards of living , the deprivations all around , widespread poverty , with few families ever having experienced the beneficial effects of a holiday in the country or at the sea-side . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Throughout 1954 and 1955 the setting up of ITV led to a great exodus of talent from the BBC , attracted , no doubt , by the higher rates of pay advertised by the commercial stations . |
| 7 | The idea that control of ‘ inferior ’ governmental bodies and officers by the higher echelons of government is in some way particularly desirable is reflected in the history of the so-called ‘ prerogative ’ orders : certiorari , prohibition , and mandamus . |
| 8 | To achieve this the nurse needs more than facts and skills ; she needs the capabilities represented by the higher levels of the learning hierarchy . |
| 9 | The glittering Godiva shops , in the Grand'Place and elsewhere , have been producing pralines laced with alcohol since the Twenties , but dedicated chocophiles are seduced by the subtler tastes of Wittamer , 12 Place du Grand Sablon , or Mary , 73 Rue Royale . |
| 10 | The increased number of freemen need not , however , be explained by the greater attractions of town life . |
| 11 | These are balanced by the gentler hues of shrubby potentillas … and generous planting of white blooms . |
| 12 | Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 9-10 , Commonwealth Finance Ministers issued a strong call for rapid action by the richer countries on relief to poor debtor countries , urging early agreement on the " Trinidad Terms " advocated by Major in 1990 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 13 | However , the NILP candidate , Janet Willcock , supported by the younger members of the party , insisted on standing . |
| 14 | My work-rate was speeded up by the further drops of rain that fell on me . |
| 15 | They were not , Hope observed , as Mrs Crump and Mrs Moore surrounded her with attention , the welled-up tears of spontaneous emotion — not if he was anything of a judge : there was something spare , almost dry , if the word could be excused , about the tears ; he noted their dryness carefully while , in mime show , semaphoring to Colonel Moore and Mr Crump ‘ the female of the species ’ and ‘ over-sensibility ’ and ‘ poor child ’ and ‘ let the ladies resolve it but although we are men of the world we too are not unmoved by the finer shades of feeling , especially for those fallen on life 's remorseless battlefield . ’ |
| 16 | Few of the postcrania were completely intact before the experiment began , but whether intact or broken , there was little additional breakage produced by the finer grades of sediment . |
| 17 | From the lip of the dell came short bursts of machine-pistol fire , punctuated by the fiercer cracks of single shots . |
| 18 | In the late 1640s , the pre-civil war church was officially proscribed , and its liturgical ceremonies were replaced by the starker services of the Presbyterian Directory of Public Worship . |
| 19 | And they assert that discounting will only lead to lower profits all round , a reduction in the number of titles on offer and an increase in market share by the larger chains at the expense of small booksellers . |
| 20 | Elsewhere , such components are diluted by the larger volumes of magma generated at ridges and by rising plumes capable of ascending to shallower depths where the lithosphere is thin . |
| 21 | Derek Birchall , a senior scientist at ICI , based in Runcorn , argues that a vital something possessed by the harder waters of the south can help to explain its lower rate of sudden heart attacks . |
| 22 | There was tenderness , there was compassion , there was kindness , there was love , though obscured at times by the harder angles of his constantly changing Cancerian character . |
| 23 | The perspectives of these two books is clearly influenced by the broader tensions in the scientific community over the changing character of science . |
| 24 | Science in this sense came to stand as a meta-discourse , framed by the broader contours of the conjuncture . |
| 25 | But on the North American mainland , colonies had been affected very little by the earlier wars among European countries ; except for the brief clash that had led to the Dutch loss of New Amsterdam the colonies had fought only with ill-armed Indians and had won their little wars without help from England . |
| 26 | It was subsequently agreed that the examination would address information needs by type , ie to concentrate on one or more categories where there appeared to be a problem , as indicated by the earlier interviews with staff and the issues reflected in the rich picture . |
| 27 | Amongst the Democrats Clinton won in Georgia by a sufficiently large margin to assuage some of the widespread doubts produced by the earlier allegations of marital infidelity and draft avoidance [ see pp. 38714 ; 38756 ] . |
| 28 | By the eighteenth century there was some move towards acceptance by the smaller landlords of partible inheritance , and the shift into industrial capitalism led to legal changes which increased freedom of testation , allowing a business man greater choice in securing his business fortune . |
| 29 | They are using sonar , but it is a cruder kind of sonar than is used by the smaller bats with which we , in temperate regions , are familiar . |
| 30 | Although in the immediate post-Restoration period the religious climate proved uncongenial to such ideas , by the later decades of the seventeenth century churchmen schooled in this tradition began to gain some real influence within established Anglican circles . |