Example sentences of "and by [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either way it should be helpful Now , interestingly people , more recently , and by that the late seventies and the eighties , have attempted to actually operationalise and measure the principles and they 've come up with some fairly ingen ingenious experimental designs to take tha to explore these avenues . |
| 2 | Picture to yourself the embarrassment of His Grace the Archbishop at hearing the opera praised by the whole family of the Elector and by all the nobles , and at receiving the enthusiastic congratulations which they all expressed to him . |
| 3 | Ritual was represented by the rite of circumcision given to Abraham ( Genesis 17:10 ) , by the keeping of the sabbath , the day of rest ( Exodus 20:8ff. ) and by all the detailed requirements relating to worship and sacrifice found in the Pentateuch . |
| 4 | Treaty could not be interpreted as ipso facto sweeping away the principal criterion applied by international law and by all the member states for the grant of the right to fly a particular flag . |
| 5 | I swear by Apollo Physician , by Health , by Panacea , and by all the gods and goddesses , making them my witnesses , that I will carry out , according to my ability and judgment , this oath and this indenture … |
| 6 | I conjure you by the bitter tears shed on the Cross by our Saviour the Lord JESUS Christ for the salvation of the world , and by the burning tears poured in the evening hour over His wounds by the most glorious Virgin MARY , His Mother , and by all the tears which have been shed here in this world by the Saints and Elect of God from whose eyes He has now wiped away all tears , that if you be innocent you do now shed tears , but if you be guilty that you shall by no means do so . |
| 7 | ( d ) Compensation fund covenants by all the members of the body and by all the beneficial owners of any shares in the body ; |
| 8 | He 'll overlook the trespass on his lands and the assault on his person — oh , yes , there was an assault , and by all the signs a bitter one , too — if Harry will renounce his feud henceforward , but Harry will die first . |
| 9 | While continuing a policy of pushing up rents , the Government began to curtail expenditure on the housing benefit scheme , and by 1987–8 the numbers claiming rent rebates had fallen to 3.7 million , and those claiming rate rebates to 7.1 million . |
| 10 | It was outside rather than inside the Cortes that a conservative opposition built up against the liberals and by 1811 the unity of patriotic reformism was broken . |
| 11 | It was here that the stables and offices became the ‘ Spinnery ’ for spinning and weaving and by 1909 the large workshops employed as many as 60 to 100 part-time workers . |
| 12 | The London County Council ( LCC ) , for example , drew the attention of head teachers to the existence of the ASEA , and by 1909 the Council was trying to establish a formal liaison between local branches and its own reconstituted Children 's Care Committees . |
| 13 | Official calculations of the number of slum dwellings were continually revised ( upwardly ) and by 1939 the officially accepted total for England and Wales stood at 472,000 . |
| 14 | Increasing numbers of women went to cheap matinees at the cinema during the inter-war years , where 70 per cent of the weekly audiences in London comprised women and girls , and by 1939 the number of wirelesses had increased from 200,000 in 1923 to over 8.5 million . |
| 15 | Competition was further boosted with the lifting of exchange controls in 1979 , and by 1981 the competition that had grown within the monetary sector spilled over to confront building societies as banks moved into mortgage lending . |
| 16 | In 1950 , five thousand were in African hands , and by 1954 the figure had reached thirty thousand . |
| 17 | In Wiltshire , after the declaration of the Forest bounds at the Salisbury Forest Eyre in 1330 , scattered areas of demesne lands and woods alone remained in the forest : Savernake was reduced from an estimated ninety-eight square miles to a mere thirteen , and by 1331 the forest of Chute in that county had been ‘ almost disafforested ’ . |
| 18 | But the effort proved exhausting for Egypt and by 1875 the country was heading for bankruptcy . |
| 19 | Britain was in the grip of a severe recession and by 1875 the Britannia Works were forced to close at an enormous loss which Albert Hill could not sustain . |
| 20 | The PLO struck at Israeli soldiers and civilians alike , and by 1970 the Israelis were retaliating deep into Lebanon , usually against civilian targets and always with results quite out of proportion to the original Palestinian attack . |
| 21 | At 11 a.m. a heavy rain of ash was falling , and by 11.20 the air was so thick with ash and pumice dust that the sun was blotted out , and total darkness fell on the city , remaining until 1 p.m . |
| 22 | Another market , for wheat and general grain , was established by Major Obins and Mr George Woodhouse in 1780 and by 1819 the annual purchases in this market amounted to over 5000 tons . |
| 23 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 24 | The 1986 Public Expenditure White Paper , for example , referred to over 1,200 such measures — the majority in Whitehall departments — and by 1987 the figure had increased to 1,810 . |
| 25 | It was cloudy for most of the day of 30 April but the sky cleared in the late afternoon and by five the sun shone out boldly . |
| 26 | There was no 1940 general election and by 1945 the voters remembered both that the Labour Party had shared responsibility for winning the war and that it had opposed the Conservative policies which led to the war . |
| 27 | So , effectively , there were only two classes , and by 1931 an estimated 96 per cent of all Danish train travellers went third class . |
| 28 | In 1931 , there were twelve Student Groups in villages and by 1935 the number had increased to twenty-one . |
| 29 | Most excursions were local but standards improved rapidly and by 1924 there were coach tours from the UK to North Africa and by 1935 the charabanc had reached Soviet Russia . |
| 30 | Similar efficiency programmes were soon seeking to remove ‘ dead wood ’ from the public services ; and by 1935 an American national pension scheme had been enacted by Congress . |