Example sentences of "[adv] illustrate by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Smith 's murine cries were nicely illustrated by way of their electronic imitation . |
| 2 | Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London . |
| 3 | The point is best illustrated by reference to specific examples under the existing United Kingdom constitution . |
| 4 | This is best illustrated by reference to Article 1 of the Protocol . |
| 5 | The terms of the review are best illustrated by reference to the contrast between the field of social policy and the discipline of sociology . |
| 6 | The transition from classical elite theory to modern variants of elitism and to its mutant offshoot pluralism is best illustrated by reference to the work of Joseph Schumpeter , whose most important contribution to modern political theory is to provide the template for many theoretical efforts to reconcile the ‘ fundamental fact ’ of elitism with democratic theory . |
| 7 | The importance of current omissions is clearly illustrated by recourse to some basic economics . |
| 8 | The extent of the revolution is most strikingly illustrated by comparison of Giovanni Gabrieli 's two settings of ‘ O Jesu mi dulcissime ’ : in his First Book of Sacrae Symphoniae ( 1597 ) and in his Second Book ( posthumously published in 1615 ) . |
| 9 | The author does well to illustrate by quotation from the Philosophie Zoologique Lamarck 's own conception of Lamarckism — and it is interesting that Lamarck 's first and second laws are by no means incompatible with Darwinism . |
| 10 | The perils of ignoring this advice were well illustrated by Angel of Bengal ( C4 ) , the True Stories documentary by Anna Raphael which was by turns hilarious and enraging . |
| 11 | The situations envisaged by that subsection seem to me well illustrated by Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 , which was dealing with the same words in another section of the same Act . |
| 12 | Clearly , the work of such agencies can not be conducted in the full glare of the political process , but there are enormous risks also in leaving such agencies uncontrolled and unaccountable , as is graphically illustrated by reference to the recent history of the FBI . |