Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gives strength to the design , which is also enhanced by the lofty attic , above which was originally a sculptured quadriga . |
| 2 | The sound , in itself small , was magnified by the lofty roof , and startled him painfully , and he drew back with a bounding heart into the shadows of the triforium as a man stepped into the church . |
| 3 | This arrangement denies natural light to the body of the spinal corridors which serve the ground- , first- and second-floor dwellings , giving them an institutional quality that is only slightly reduced by the relief from the cellular treatment of space offered by the lofty entrance lobby and main staircase space at the west end . |
| 4 | P-E International Plc has won the £150,000 contract to help the UK Inland Revenue with the implementation of the proposed reforms of personal tax assessment : in the budget , Chancellor Norman Lamont announced an overhaul of the tax return and payment process to make it simpler and fairer and offer the option of self-assessment and the revised system is scheduled to be in place by the 1996-7 tax year . |
| 5 | All references are by the author-date system ( e.g. , ‘ Grice , 1961 ’ ) and are collected in the References at the end of the book . |
| 6 | It was the second largest fall in the country 's history , exceeded only by the 3,836 point crash on " Black Monday " in October 1987 . |
| 7 | The first projection was immediately disconfirmed by Labour winning the 1964 and 1966 elections and the second was undone by the 1970 election and has been destroyed by the last three general elections . |
| 8 | That he didso , even after appeals for clemency from abroad , including Britain and France , apparently indicates his concern at the threat posed by the abortive coup , and may presage further measures to demonstrate a firm hand . |
| 9 | If a Court Scheme is agreed to by the target 's shareholders ( or a particular class of them ) by the requisite majority , and is approved by the court , then it will be binding on all shareholders ( or the particular class of them ) and the company . |
| 10 | As mentioned above , once a Court Scheme is approved by the requisite majority and the court it binds the company and all its members ( or the particular class of them ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( b ) whether to sanction the scheme following its approval by the requisite majority of shareholders . |
| 13 | ( 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 ) . |
| 14 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the event the hunger strike was called off on May 12 , 1989 , on the basis of the concessions offered by the SPD-ruled Länder : concessions not implemented in the other states . |
| 18 | Nicolas Platon ( 1968 , pp. 167–8 ) mentions the remarkable technique , perfected by the Minoan metal workers , by which superbly decorated daggers were produced . |
| 19 | The ridge is formed by the algal genus , Porolithon , not by Lithothamnion after which it used to be named . |
| 20 | But by the late-18th century even communal violence in a traditional cause was becoming difficult to stomach . |
| 21 | The authorities were becoming increasingly concerned by the unhealthy state of student activism . |
| 22 | Additional hazards are provided by the 80 sand bunkers dotted along the manicured fairways and the magnificent greens . |
| 23 | By the mid-twentieth century there was a fair amount of crossing with other breeds in order to boost production , and there is therefore much more evidence today of colour spotting on the head , neck and shoulders and an increasing tendency towards overmarking . |
| 24 | By the mid-twentieth century the Guernsey was no longer a park decorator in England but in great demand as a commercial dairy cow . |
| 25 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 26 | By the mid-twentieth century this can be clearly related to the institution of an effective world market in some sectors of art , music and literature , and to the corresponding ( but not always dependent ) sense of larger effective cultures ( ‘ European literature ’ , ‘ Western music ’ , ‘ Twentieth-century art ’ ) . |
| 27 | The earliest figures of this kind were still actors or writers , but the new role rapidly increased in importance , until by the mid-twentieth century the director could see himself , and was often seen by others , as the central productive figure . |
| 28 | After this the Jewish community began to spread into Persian , and by the mid-twentieth century there were probably about 100,00 Jews in Iran , Until Rexa Kahn seized power they were required |
| 29 | Between them they supplied all they could remember of the encounter by the roped-off enclosure above the river . |
| 30 | Peace hung by the slender thread of the DCAC 's moral authority . |