Example sentences of "by the [adj] [noun] of " 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 | These are as follows : ( 1 ) Once a Court Scheme has been approved by the requisite majority of members and sanctioned by the court it is binding on all the members ( or the particular class of them ) and the company . |
| 4 | ( b ) whether to sanction the scheme following its approval by the requisite majority of shareholders . |
| 5 | ( 8 ) The bidder always runs the risk that at the hearing of the petition the court will exercise its discretion not to sanction the scheme even though it has been approved by the requisite minority of members ( see para 2.4.7 below ) . |
| 6 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 7 | Featureless sheds surrounded by the requisite area of unkempt grass and undersized dying trees as well as an extensive car park is the norm for most types of modern industry . |
| 8 | The resulting Peace of Kallias of 449 did not , however , affect the diplomatic position of Sparta , and it is easy to be misled by the Athens-centred character of the written sources and forget that Sparta and Persia were technically at war right down to 412 BC . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The authorities were becoming increasingly concerned by the unhealthy state of student activism . |
| 12 | Peace hung by the slender thread of the DCAC 's moral authority . |
| 13 | A very good example of a complex form is provided by the cuspate foreland of Dungeness ( Plate 31 ) , which has been studied in detail by Lewis ( 1932 ) , whose ideas on its formation are indicated in Fig. 8.31 . |
| 14 | This company , incidentally , had been strongly influenced by the Japanese way of doing things and had introduced just-in-time and kanban methods . |
| 15 | They have been arranged in a Western home by the Japanese wife of Balthus , the great French painter . |
| 16 | Britain has been responsible for 52 per cent of all inventions worldwide in the past 30 years , according to a survey conducted by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . |
| 17 | Sponsored by the Japanese division of American Express , a team led by the Director of the Institute of Asian Studies at Sophia University , Tokyo , have conducted a survey at Banteay Kdei temple at Angkor , while the New York-based World Monument Fund ( Wmf ) has examined the nearby Preah Khan monastic complex . |
| 18 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 19 | An apparent suggestion by Chatichai during a visit to Thailand by the Japanese Director-General of the Defence Agency , Yozo Ishikawa , on May 3 , that Thailand and Japan hold joint naval exercises in the South China Sea caused concern among Thailand 's regional allies in the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 20 | In working out how to answer , a considerable proportion of four-year-olds are influenced by the alternative basis of response that the ‘ irrelevant ’ introduction of the garages provides i.e. , the relative fullness of the two sets of garages , rather than the relative numerosity of the two sets of cars . |
| 21 | Lordships in the heart of Plantagenet Aquitaine , as well as in the Agenais and the Gers , were thus held by the short-lived countess of Armagnac until her death in 1325 . |
| 22 | BY the worn-out water of women |
| 23 | The Whigs were concerned that the arbitrary power of a prince was being replaced by the arbitrary power of the legislature . |
| 24 | The difficulty is that the assumptions on which it is based are to say the least shaky : the assumptions , namely , that only one vote suffices although more than one candidate is to be elected ; that preferential voting is reliable , even when used in ignorance of all the relevant information and inhibited by the arbitrary exclusion of candidates who might otherwise be successful ; that it is reasonable to grant to some votes the privilege of being transferred , and to lower-preference votes the possibility of exercising greater influence than is warranted by their very definition ; that it is reasonable also to give to all transferred votes the same weighting as to original votes ; and that election by quota is sensible even if the quotas are manifestly make-believe . |
| 25 | Additional yawing caused by the excess use of the rudder in a turn will make the wing-drop much sharper . |
| 26 | The closer integration of countries ' economies through increasing trade , fostered by the gradual removal of trade barriers , has been one of the most significant developments of the postwar period . |
| 27 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 28 | Trade within CARICOM increased by 20 per cent during 1989 to reach a total value of US$436,000,000 , aided by the gradual dismantling of trade barriers , particularly in Trinidad and Tobago . |
| 29 | We could measure the rise of the water by the gradual lightening of the hold and the change in the quality and volume of sound . |
| 30 | However , reality intrudes on such constructions , as indicated by the gradual widening of the category ‘ inner city ’ to refer also to ‘ outer estates ’ and then to whole cities , like Bradford ; in some cases it is even used as a code for whole regions of deprivation in conjunction with that other metaphor , the North-South divide . |