Example sentences of "by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fly over the solitary rock washed by the glacial tears of sorrow , let there be at your passing , a radiant beam over the gloomy solitary rock . |
| 2 | This gives strength to the design , which is also enhanced by the lofty attic , above which was originally a sculptured quadriga . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All references are by the author-date system ( e.g. , ‘ Grice , 1961 ’ ) and are collected in the References at the end of the book . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Accounts written by the sixteen pupils were studied for causal attributions , without any further intrusion from the researchers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And , by the same token , the emergence of language is made possible by the developmental achievements of the first two years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( b ) whether to sanction the scheme following its approval by the requisite majority of shareholders . |
| 16 | ( 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 ) . |
| 17 | One can only hope that tournament organisers come to recognise this and ensure that each event is staffed by the requisite number of officials . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nicolas Platon ( 1968 , pp. 167–8 ) mentions the remarkable technique , perfected by the Minoan metal workers , by which superbly decorated daggers were produced . |
| 22 | The gold used by the Minoan smiths to make all these fine objects was imported from the Egyptian gold mines in Sinai , from the Arabian desert and from Anatolia . |
| 23 | The ridge is formed by the algal genus , Porolithon , not by Lithothamnion after which it used to be named . |
| 24 | But by the late-18th century even communal violence in a traditional cause was becoming difficult to stomach . |
| 25 | As a child he was haunted by the absent presence of a dead sister stolen away by the death-dealing forces of an unfathomable universe . |
| 26 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 27 | The authorities were becoming increasingly concerned by the unhealthy state of student activism . |
| 28 | Van den Boogard concentrated his study on revealing characteristics shared by the Anglo-Norman fabliaux which could be explained by reference to the peculiar situation of the Anglo-Norman community . |
| 29 | Additional hazards are provided by the 80 sand bunkers dotted along the manicured fairways and the magnificent greens . |
| 30 | 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 . |