Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | One night the young peasant , his spirit stunned by the violent or luxurious language in which Stephen escaped from the cold silence of intellectual revolt , had called up before Stephen 's mind a strange vision . |
| 2 | Hydro-Quebec , the state-owned electricity company which is undertaking the James Bay project , has undertaken to comply with all environmental rulings made by the provincial or federal governments , and has invited the IWT to take part in environmental assessment . |
| 3 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 4 | Therefore voluntary aided schools are in effect a kind of partnership : the premises are provided and to an extent kept up by the religious or other body which established them whilst the cost of running the schools is borne by the public purse . |
| 5 | On 3 March 1987 the originating summons was amended by adding the seventh and eighth plaintiffs , and on 19 March 1987 it was further amended to seek accounts of all transactions entered into , and of all dealings with the property of the plaintiffs by the first defendant , and of all moneys received by or payment made by the first defendant or by the second or third defendants , and an inquiry whether any sums were due from the first defendant to the plaintiffs . |
| 6 | If the first order is made for less than eight weeks however the balance of this period may be taken up by the second or subsequent orders . |
| 7 | If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , in many ways , one could say that the community or community organisations , local organisations are capable of running most things , erm , indeed they did at once , and some of those functions were taken over by the central or local state . |
| 9 | If safety standards are threatened by the alleged or actual act of victimisation , offshore safety division inspectors have the powers , under the Health and Safety at Work etc . |
| 10 | Huxtable was an effective propagandist , by the spoken or written word , for his innovative ideas for recycling waste materials and conserving resources , his principle publication being The ‘ Present Prices ' ( 1850 ) , which went through seven editions . |
| 11 | Thus each days ' dosage remains homœopathic to the case as the slight increase in the health of the vital force is matched with the slight increase in potency caused by the five or six shakes of the bottle . |
| 12 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 13 | We do not always dismiss him when he is left trailing by the brilliant or the powerful . |
| 14 | Even more widespread was extra spending by carers on items and services which were needed by the disabled or elderly person , but which were not covered by the financial contribution which the latter made to the household budget ( even when this included both retirement or invalidity pensions and disability benefits ) . |
| 15 | Thus once incomes had been pooled and responsibilities for the various household outgoings apportioned , it was clear that some of the carers in Glendinning 's study were being supported by the disabled or elderly person . |
| 16 | The extra expenses which many carers also experience , on items needed by the disabled or elderly person or on equipment and services to ease the work of care-giving , are likely to add to these financial pressures . |
| 17 | The distinction between operative know followed by the bare or to infinitive could be imputed to dialectal differences if , as Quirk et al. |
| 18 | Paul Baines has shown that this is caused by the essential or volatile oils , which the alchemists considered to be the soul of a plant . |
| 19 | Employment relationships have been influenced , not only by the environmental or contextual variables already discussed , but also in some societies by distinctive cultural features . |
| 20 | It usually bears the median ocellus and is often delimited laterally by the frontogenal sulci and distally by the epistomal or frontoclypeal sulcus ( Fig. 5 ) , associated with which are the anterior tentorial invaginations . |
| 21 | ‘ Those who can understand the Bible are allowed to read it , but there are passages that could be misinterpreted by the unintelligent or those of simple understanding . ’ |
| 22 | Another box in the same form is to be filled by the actual or ‘ issuing carrier . ’ |
| 23 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 24 | The boats and barges of the early river navigations were moved along by the current or tide , by sail or by gangs of men . |
| 25 | In the field of tactics the main interest of the eighteenth century lies in the slow modification of the traditional line formation of troops on the field of battle by the new or rediscovered idea of attack in column . |
| 26 | Here they were , objects of suspicion to be interrogated by the police , and not even noticed by the one or two newspaper men who had arrived at the hotel . |
| 27 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 28 | The club is formed by the swollen or enlarged distal segments of the antenna . |
| 29 | Up ahead Neil Coles was putting together a 66 , which eventually saw him tie with Johnny , but by the fifth or sixth , when we 'd picked up a couple of birdies to Johnny 's pars or bogey , I thought , ‘ This is our Open . ’ |
| 30 | By the fifth or sixth day — certainly by the end of the week — their money was exhausted . |