Example sentences of "by the [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines . |
| 2 | And by the 1960s a type of credit sale had evolved to meet the Inland Revenue 's requirements for tax relief eligibility . |
| 3 | In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s . |
| 4 | But by the 1960s the emphasis was on the need to restore financial self-sufficiency through drastic pruning of the network . |
| 5 | By the 1960s the State of Israel had become more secure . |
| 6 | By the 1960s the mass of Venus had long been known from its gravitational effect on the orbit of the Earth and of Mercury . |
| 7 | By the 1960s the cricket authorities therefore wanted a better crowd-drawer than the old three-day games between counties that made up the county championship . |
| 8 | By the 1990s the threat to social services is greater than ever . |
| 9 | By the 1990s the change to the meritocrats had begun to affect the highest levels of the party . |
| 10 | By the 1680s the power of France was beginning to alarm Englishmen as well . |
| 11 | Men soon outnumbered the heterosexual women in the key positions , and by the sixties the organization had changed in perspective and in name . |
| 12 | The Shepherd Gallery has discovered a terracotta self-portrait bust by the great turn-of-the century actress Sarah Bernhardt , who is less well known as a talented sculptress . |
| 13 | The UN World Food Programme , approached by the Sudanese a week earlier , had reportedly already delivered 19,000 tonnes . |
| 14 | By the 1840s the influence of the philanthropists was considerable . |
| 15 | By the 1840s the transmutationist challenge was ebbing , Grant was losing influence and the whole movement had been labelled as irreligious and potentially subversive . |
| 16 | By the 1840s the Bank of Prussia — which was to become the central bank for the expanding joint-stock and credit banking system — had been established with capital of over 11 million thalers . |
| 17 | By the 1920s a mood of sombre professionalism had set in , best exemplified by the founding of the Review of English Studies in 1925 . |
| 18 | It soon received the acclamation of the trade and by the 1920s the majority of undertakers in this country were offering hygienic treatment of the dead to their clients . |
| 19 | Records still give no indications of use other than corn milling , but by the 1690s a fulling mill and dye house had been added , possibly much earlier . |
| 20 | Mr Major now has the job of finding a solution to the problems raised by the Danish No vote . |
| 21 | Thereafter Offa assumed direct rule of Hwiccian territory in the 780s , and by the 790s the province was under the command of an individual known simply as dux ( CS 272 , 273 : S 146 ) , but it is worth emphasizing how long this process took . |
| 22 | Copper ores needed a considerable labour force to break and sort the ores , and by the 1780s the ratio of female and juvenile labour to adult males had reached 2 : 5 . |
| 23 | However , by the 1780s the use of stoneware was succeeded by porcelain and earthenware sauce-boats . |
| 24 | By the 1820s the movement had spread to England . |
| 25 | In the 1950s Dulles ' threat of ‘ massive retaliation ’ in the event of war , did not seem unrealistic but by the 1970s a position of ‘ mutually-assured destruction ’ was reached between the Superpowers . |
| 26 | However , during the late 1930s/early 1960s , a great deal of interest was generated and , by the 1970s the breed was firmly established with the South African Kennel Club . |
| 27 | By the 1970s the business had dwindled to near extinction , before being rescued by a clever and resourceful lady called Sheila Pickles , who bought what remained of the enterprise and discovered she had acquired a wealth of recipes and formulas . |
| 28 | By the 1970s the demand for an extension of parental choice was growing . |
| 29 | However , by the 1970s the population had dwindled to less than 20 , and the last inhabitant moved out three years ago , after the land was bought by South West Water . |
| 30 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |