Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figure 21.8 shows that this energy is supplied by the outward transport of energy by the fluctuations themselves from the region where the production is large . |
| 2 | All six companies use unedited quantitative information ; for example , the annual accounts which can be analysed by the planners themselves in order to form their own opinions . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a power given by the Act itself to the minister to modify another section of the Act so that when the minister does produce that modification … that regulation becomes in fact part of the Act . |
| 4 | At a certain point in his investigations , at the harbour in Trieste , the narrator imagines the pleasure felt by the midshipman who at that moment is explaining the lay-out and workings of his ship to two visitors , giving all the parts of the ship and all the instruments their proper names , which ‘ have no synonyms ’ ( Del Giudice 1983 : 44 ) ; and muses further on his own dreams of navigation , envying the midshipman ‘ the way in which he concentrates on the angle and the height , and his habit of considering himself in relation to something ’ , above all ‘ the exactitude of the chart ’ ( 45 ) . |
| 5 | Then , instead of being played for visual comedy , as when the stewardess in 2001 walks through a half circle to exit upside down , still carrying her tray unspilt ( done by imperceptibly turning the camera 180° in the opposite direction as she walks in a treadmill ) , it 's a drama with wry comedy overtones as the nervous Curnow is supported by his braver Soviet oppo , Brailovsky ( Elya Baskin ) — a sequence largely performed by the actors themselves on wires . |
| 6 | He was their only guest and of course her father had given him the ‘ big room ’ — used by the landlord himself in the winter . |
| 7 | Rose ate hers by the machines which by now were hungry fur oil . |
| 8 | When Cathy got pregnant at fourteen by the lodger who until recently had lived in her family 's home , her parents decided to take him to court . |
| 9 | They even used phrases originally employed by the students themselves in informal conversation . |
| 10 | The essential point , if there is to be proper democratic accountability , is that there must be a clearly defined authority whose judgement and power can not ultimately be contradicted other than by the citizens themselves through the ballot box . |
| 11 | The sound quality varies enormously throughout the 39 tracks , ( which span roughly 50 years ) , but is at its worst in the eight cylinder recordings made by the composer himself in 1910 . |
| 12 | ‘ Oberon ’ was commissioned by Covent Garden , and conducted there by the composer himself in 1826 . |
| 13 | I mean normally I do n't bother with the tokens , I mean I Anyway I paid the cheque and I said to Peter I said oh by the way what about me tokens for me for me toy I said if I get a free one of them I can give it to give it to the grandchildren . |
| 14 | But all our speakers are chosen by the Pre-retirement Council and by your employers by the way who over a period of time have selected the Oh well we do n't want him again or that firm again . |
| 15 | They were rather unpleasantly self-satisfied for a start — and this was not incompatible with the impression made on him by the man himself at their meeting . |
| 16 | His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes . |
| 17 | Our view of the Bill has been expressed most clearly by the Government themselves in their White Paper , ’ The Prison Disciplinary System of England and Wales ’ , which was published in 1986 in response to the Prior committee report . |
| 18 | The involvement of the mujaheddin as part of the multinational force engaged in the Gulf war was criticized by the government which in February 1991 declared that military action in the Gulf had exceeded the mandate of UN Resolution 678 . |
| 19 | Blue ear disease in pigs has been allowed to run unchecked by the Government who in September closed their veterinary investigation centre in Lincoln , which is where work into that type of disease was carried out . |
| 20 | The minister 's assessment of the scientific data , like that of Gwyneth Dunwoody , a Labour MP , was aptly described by the Minister himself in the parliamentary debate of 27 January 1983 . |
| 21 | In theory , the shareholders have legal control of the company , but in practice this is most often exercised by the directors who between them may have a small minority of the shares with the acquiescence of the institutions which are the major shareholders . |
| 22 | The truce gave Edward a useful breathing space in which to organize a much more substantial force , and in July 1335 a two-pronged invasion of Scotland began , led from Carlisle by the king himself with over 13,000 men and from Berwick by Edward Balliol . |
| 23 | Failure of heirs , or the survival only of heiresses , was exploited by the king himself for the benefit of his own sons , who expected endowments and titles as befitted their rank and who by virtue of their birth played a leading part in aristocratic society . |
| 24 | However , much can be done by the teachers themselves at very little cost to the department . |
| 25 | In fact , they sometimes declare that rival theories have been produced by the conspirators themselves as part of the general strategy of confusion . |
| 26 | Lennis had stressed the emptiness of his life in having a daughter who had little to do with him , an account apparently borne out by the daughter herself in her interview with the banker . |
| 27 | Urquhart then plugs this figure into an assessment of the health effects of polonium that was made by the NRPB itself in a report on the radiological impact of coal-fired power stations . |
| 28 | Then , taking into account the resources of the authority , and the revenue available to it from the National Non-domestic Rate , the government is to decide how much Revenue Support Grant it will give , and how much revenue it considers should be raised by the authority itself through Community Charge . |
| 29 | The sentence over the exemption of the abbey was given by the pope himself in his consistory and Thomas of Marlborough , who had appeared as proctor for the abbey , fainted for joy . |
| 30 | Just before the first egg is layed , the male seals the female in with a wall of clay and mud , helped by the female herself from within . |