Example sentences of "but by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exceptions occur when a position is so specialised or obscure that search is the only way ; but by the laws of demand and supply , such jobs as these usually attract high salaries in any case . |
| 2 | For example , Marx 's economic theory insists that behind the surface phenomenon of wildly fluctuating market prices for goods and services there lies an underlying and controlling structure of values , which are determined not by the supply and demand forces which obsess ‘ bourgeois ’ economists , but by the laws of the labour theory of value . |
| 3 | Above all , Thompson insists that history is made , not by the inevitable operation of impersonal structures , but by the actions of real human beings . |
| 4 | Mono-crop economies are particularly vulnerable to the instabilities in the world market directed , not by the hidden hand of the market , but by the actions of a global collection of profit-maximizing capitalists , usually based in hegemon countries and often acting in unison . |
| 5 | In the period following the execution of the Demoiselles Picasso 's art was informed by two main principles or types of tribal art , the one flatter , more abstract and remote from European art , in which the basic planes of the face are differentiated not by relief but by the directions of the striations or hatchings with which they are covered , the other more solid , sculptural , three-dimensional and naturalistic . |
| 6 | But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them . |
| 7 | The vast bulk of these were not caused by employees ' carelessness or stupidity but by the conditions under which they are obliged to work . |
| 8 | That is , a revolution from above , a revolution guided not by the ambition of the bulk of the population , but by the interests of the landed aristocracy and the military . |
| 9 | Is it not economic nonsense that our interest rates should be dictated not by our own grave economic needs but by the interests of the German economy ? |
| 10 | This new machine would not be characterized by the ‘ commanding ’ methods of capitalist state officials but by the routines of managers and bookkeepers , ‘ functions which are already within the capacity of the average city dweller ’ ( p. 43 ) . |
| 11 | On the other hand , it has been argued that the burning of genealogies to which Julius Africanus refers was perpetrated not by Herod , but by the Romans after the revolt of A.D. 66 . |
| 12 | Ignorant , politically immature , with no grasp of the real issues at stake , they are guided not by rational goals of their own but by the vagaries of rumour , the skill of rival political leaders , rabble-rousing , propaganda and demagogy . |
| 13 | James was by European standards a clear-sighted ruler who wanted to gain a little more of the authority over his subjects to which all kings were entitled , but by the standards of Englishmen he was a ruthless tyrant with the additional vices that he wanted to promote the cause of Roman Catholicism and was willing to infringe the rights of property . |
| 14 | He is Prime Minister not by the vote of the people but by the votes of 185 Tory Members . |
| 15 | His greatest memorial was the History of the School , but by the terms of his Will he also bequeathed money to endow two prizes , the Hulsean Divinity Prize and the Benjamin Varley Geography prize . |
| 16 | They included offences of violence , offences of dishonesty and sexual offences , but by the terms of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 I am directed to ignore them all . |