Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Thus France after the high ground of the early Middle Ages descended into a trough from which the nation would be raised only centuries later by the great Capetians Philip Augustus and St Louis : feudal monarchs who defused feudalism .
2 The Scottish Colourists Exhibition , the highlight of the gallery 's exhibitions to date , displayed work by the four artists Hunter , Fergusson , Cadell and Peploe , regarded by some as Scotland 's greatest painters .
3 The towns are designated as Muslim areas in the peace package put forward by the international mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen .
4 Buffeted by the raging winds Indraugnir carried the dying Phoenix King high above the battlefield .
5 A Music Hall sling from 1890s , introduced by the Irish comedians O'Connor and Brady , had probably first popularised the word : How it came to be adopted by , and applied to , youthful street gangs is something of a mystery .
6 Greg Cooper came from Auckland , Arthur Stone from Waikato , Stu Foster from the north , followed by the two wings John Timu and Paul Cooke , plus the usual number of outside players attending the social sections of the University of Otago .
7 Earlier George Robertson , Labour 's front-bench spokesman on European affairs , announced that the Opposition would officially support an amendment tabled by the Western Isles MP , Calum MacDonald .
8 Tough marking by the Argentinian defenders Batista , Monzon and Simon meant that the Soviet referee A Spirin , and the Italian magic sponge were kept busy .
9 Newspapers , even ones unencumbered by the exceptional problems NoS was creating for itself , need quick decisions and highly interventionist managers who know the business inside out .
10 It is also perhaps a sign of Boiotian isolation that there were no tyrants in archaic Boiotia , and that by the Persian Wars Thebes , then the first city of Boiotia , was controlled by a dynasteia , an irresponsible family government ( Thuc. iii.62 ) .
11 The out of centre position is made up for by the excellent rates Amsterdam Travel Service have specially negotiated at this hotel .
12 In 1907 a north aisle was added by the local architects Clifton & Robinson , almost doubling the area and detracting from the proportions .
13 Both the practice and the tensions associated with it were meticulously described by the American anthropologists Arensberg and Kimball .
14 Installed at a Boston residential club by the American publishers Houghton Mifflin , he wrote the account in six weeks ; it came out less than three months after the sinking it describes , and has been reprinted at intervals ever since .
15 The most famous functionalist theory of stratification was first presented in 1945 , in an article by the American sociologists Davis and Moore entitled , Some Principles of Stratification .
16 About half way through the interview , the forty women were given a test of ‘ self-attitudes ’ developed by the American sociologists Manford H. Kuhn and Thomas S. McPartland , which provides data on this point .
17 In the first census of the nineteenth century , many of the concepts developed by the classical economists Smith , Ricardo and Malthus influenced the categories used .
18 After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin .
19 The place is experienced as an accumulation of its pasts , a wreck like those whose flotsam litters its shores and provides the walls and furniture and windows of one of its villages , described by the English travellers Joseph and Henry Bullar in 1841 and revisited by Tabucchi 140 years later ( 29 ) .
20 Each opens with thanks addressed to Jesus for the particular incident of the Passion under consideration and closes with a prayer which first applies this incident to aspects of the meditator 's own life and then modulates into a set pattern indicated by the Latin directives Pater Noster , Et ne nos , Adoramus , Aue [ Our Father , And [ lead ] us not , we praise , Hail ] .
21 A report by the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission ( UNIKOM ) , released on Sept. 4 , found no evidence to substantiate Kuwaiti allegations of an Iraqi military incursion on the island of Bubiyan [ see p. 38407 ] .
22 The classic example was discovered by the French biologists François Jacob and Jacques Monod in 1959 in the bacterium Escherichia coli ( see Figure 9 ) .
23 On the news of the occupation of Andalusia by the French armies Buenos Aires set up a Junta which deposed the Viceroy in order to ‘ preserve ’ the Viceroyalty for Ferdinand VII .
24 Munich dealer Bruce Levie sold four Menzel drawings , and French drawings were well-featured by both Neil Fiertag and Nicholas Joly/Yves Mikaeloff , the latter offering perhaps the widest range , from an unusually fine Guiseppe Passeri pen-and-red chalk ‘ Standing Soldier ’ to two Art Deco designs for silver covered dishes by the French designers Sue et Mare , bought by the Cooper Union Museum , New York .
25 His designs for Hagley Hall were drawn out by the architect John Sanderson , the Warwick Shire Hall was executed by the well-known mason-architects William and David Hiorne , who described themselves as its ‘ surveyors ’ as well as its ‘ builders ’ , and he had as his regular assistant a mason called William Hitchcox .
26 One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate .
27 Most significant in recent years have been the field experiments carried out by the British ornithologists Nick Davies and Mike Brooke from the University of Cambridge , and the field observations of another British ornithologist , Ian Wyllie .
28 It has been approved by the National Farmers Union ( NFU ) .
29 When he visited The National Gallery in London , he was enchanted by the Italian Masters Massacio and Pierro de la Francesca , and the manner in which they portrayed the human figure .
30 The concept began to be widely used in the social sciences early in this century after it was adopted as a central idea by the Italian theorists Gaetano Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto .
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