Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fly over the solitary rock washed by the glacial tears of sorrow , let there be at your passing , a radiant beam over the gloomy solitary rock . |
| 2 | And , by the same token , the emergence of language is made possible by the developmental achievements of the first two years . |
| 3 | As a child he was haunted by the absent presence of a dead sister stolen away by the death-dealing forces of an unfathomable universe . |
| 4 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 5 | Who ‘ A ’ is , remains a mystery , but she is a creature of clearly inspirational beauty who has been captured with a fluidity of drawing and subtlety of palette that would be envied by the greatest masters of the French Impressionist School . |
| 6 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 7 | This bouquet is partly inherited , and so the bloodhound can occasionally be confused by the criss-crossing trails of identical twins . |
| 8 | At the level of village life , this pattern provides stability and cohesion , for villagers are interlinked by the criss-crossing relationships of compadrazgo . |
| 9 | Heavy fighting continued notwithstanding yet another ceasefire agreement signed by the warring factions on Dec. 13 , providing also for humanitarian corridors to be opened to evacuate the Sarajevo population . |
| 10 | There was the experience for Daniel of falling in the water at a very early age , followed by the frequent admonitions of his anxious parents . |
| 11 | Leaders of large organisations will inevitably find problems in getting those at lower levels in the hierarchy to comply with their objectives — a problem illustrated by the frequent leaks of confidential memoranda and reports in Whitehall . |
| 12 | Delving in the archives one is struck by the frequent references to shortage of funds , a situation which , unfortunately , still applies today . |
| 13 | Violation of the treaty would be justified by the collective interests of the international community . |
| 14 | At a time when the party leadership was dominated by the sectarian views of Barbe and Celor , such reticence can not simply be explained by a sense of personal solidarity on the part of Thorez , and especially Vaillant-Couturier , for Barbusse . |
| 15 | Although he was a Unionist in politics , he tried to pursue a policy of non-discrimination in the shipyard , strained by the sectarian troubles in 1864 and in 1884–5 . |
| 16 | I was tantalised by the mysterious secrets of that diary . |
| 17 | Ahmed Ould Daddah was supported in his campaign by the main opposition party , the Union of Democratic Forces ( Union des forces démocratiques — UFD ) ; by the Islamic fundamentalists of the Umma Party , banned but still influential among the Arab merchants of the capital , Nouakchott ; and by the Nasserists , the Democratic Justice Party and the Democratic Centre Party ( whose own candidate , Benba Ould Sidi Badi , withdrew ) . |
| 18 | We have been approached by the leader of a Youth Club who organises displays by the young girls in flag waving and club swinging . |
| 19 | Within a few weeks of the outbreak of war , the Luftwaffe had a new name for the east coast of Scotland where the skies were patrolled by the young men of the City of Glasgow Squadron , and its leaders , Wing Commander Farquhar , Group Captain the Duke of Hamilton , and Squadron Leader Johnstone . |
| 20 | He was feared as much by the family ( owing to a vicious temper ) as he was by the young men of the district . |
| 21 | the device remained popular for a century after its invention , finding particular favour in France , where , according to one account , it sold so quickly at a fair in Paris that the stallholder was hustled out of town by the young men of the city who saw their favourite quarry rapidly being locked away . |
| 22 | 27 year old Corporal Staples is well respected by the young men from Dalton Barracks , in Abingdon . |
| 23 | In a few moments lonely Tess was asleep , in the bedroom once used by the young wives of her ancestors . |
| 24 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the circumstances of each nation state are sufficiently varied , for the choice of when to apply which policy — or combination of policies — to be influenced by the political interests behind the government of the day . |
| 26 | The ethos of conflict avoidance has also promoted a propensity on the part of both management and unions , and encouraged by the political concerns of governments , to avoid major industrial action . |
| 27 | they were highly organised and ideologised and , prompted by a sympathetic political situation and finally by the political actions of management , they became a powerful militant force . |
| 28 | Citizens who had the orthodox Soviet version of Ukrainian history rammed down their throats for decades are now being told a completely different version , arguably also coloured by the political prejudices of its authors . |
| 29 | The fragmentation of political authority , and the existence of multiple , changing and politically defined goals , have led to continuous ad hoc intervention by the political controllers of public enterprises in their decision-making . |
| 30 | In defence of the industries , however , one has to make an allowance for the social costs of policies ( such as maintaining an uneconomic rail service for a community or loss-making plants in areas of high unemployment ) and for decisions on pricing , investment , and employment which are shaped in part by the political calculations of the government of the day . |