Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
2 | The battle rages on either side of her in two self-contained halves which balance each other closely : a combat ; an archer shooting towards the angle ; a crouching figure despatching a fallen one ; a figure , his head towards the angle , struck down by the bowman 's shaft ; and beyond him , in the corner , gear ( a shield , a helmet ) . |
3 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
4 | Such registers have long been maintained by unions in industries where there is a tradition of using temporary workers — for example by the printers union ( NGA ) for the supply of casual labour to newspaper printing companies , and by the draughtsmen 's union ( TASS ) for the supply of " casual " or temporary drawing office staff . |
5 | The type of use under discussion is therefore exactly parallel to the infinitive of result , except that what has brought the support to realize the happening denoted by the infinitive 's lexeme is left undefined . |
6 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
7 | But , as I have indicated , the Crown case requires that there must be ambiguity and further requires that the ambiguity must be resolved against the ordinary meaning of the word and in favour of the neutral meaning preferred and required by the Crown 's argument . |
8 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
9 | The decision to initiate the award scheme was taken by the BMC 's management committee following the recommendation of its training advisory group . |
10 | The spelling of ‘ sulphur ’ was first discussed by the RSC 's Nomenclature Committee in 1979 , at the request of the BSI . |
11 | In continuing to speak of healthy relationships between children and parents , Searles emphasised the resolution of the Oedipal strivings , not just by the child 's identification with the parents of the same sex , not just by the final taboo and containment of the feelings , but also by the parent 's renunciation of the reciprocated romantic feelings with a real sense of loss , and also by the love between the parents to which the child owed his existence . |
12 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
13 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |
14 | THE Isle of Man will remain a corporate tax haven , following the finalisation of the island 's budget yesterday by the country 's treasury minister Donald Gelling . |
15 | Nicaragua 's health system was once described by the World Health Organisation as a ‘ model organisation in Latin America ’ , but it is now suffering the effects of austerity measures imposed by the country 's government . |
16 | Passed on to the next by the country 's elite . |
17 | Much of the waste was generated by the country 's mining industry . |
18 | These dispositions and their object — that of bringing Iran 's crude-oil export system to a standstill — were set out with ample detail and forceful purpose by the country 's leadership . |
19 | Since then , fully backed by the country 's gold reserves , the kroon has held steady against the dollar , and appreciated to 69 Russian roubles . |
20 | And the newer divisions between communists and anti-communists , though stifled under Tito and weakened by the country 's openness to the West , were not dead . |
21 | PARIS — French customs officers along the entire length of the Pyrenees announced yesterday that they were joining the 19-week-old strike by the country 's tax collectors and would be closing the border to commercial traffic , writes Patrick Marnham . |
22 | This move was necessitated by the country 's Constitution — which stipulated that the current agreement should be allowed to expire in 1991 — and Manglapus did not rule out the possibility of negotiating a new bases treaty . |
23 | Nuclear weapons were prohibited from the Philippines by the country 's Constitution . |
24 | The report estimates that exploitation of bogs in Britain results in carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 40 per cent of that produced by the country 's transport vehicles . |
25 | Since then , the debt crisis has been handled through a series of temporary rescheduling agreements financed partly by the IMF and partly by private banks , each guaranteed creditworthy by the country 's acceptance of an IMF adjustment programme designed to generate a foreign exchange surplus through cuts in imports and export production . |
26 | Like many other jazz musicians in the Sixties , Cherry was drawn to Sweden by the country 's mix of liberal legislation and open-minded society . |
27 | For him , life began to turn on a Sunday evening two weeks ago in his Bratislava prison cell after he had been pardoned by the country 's president , Mr Gustav Husak . |
28 | Despite Taiwan 's agreement to comply with a UN resolution which bans the use of driftnets from the high seas [ see ED 51 ] , the ban is being ignored by the country 's fishing industry . |
29 | A report , to be discussed by the council 's education race equality sub-committee next Monday , says : ‘ The racial equality management team is of the opinion that the number of black children being excluded from Liverpool schools is unacceptably high . |
30 | A MAJOR push to make Darlington a centre for tourism was discussed by the council 's development committee yesterday . |