Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A recent lead article reported on a seminar organised by the CSC for pastors and other church leaders on sexually transmitted diseases , including AIDS , homosexuality and prostitution . |
| 32 | Bernice was blown off her feet by the shockwave from the explosion . |
| 33 | The physical charisma with which the snake is endowed is no doubt one of the major reasons why it , among all snakes , was chosen by the Nagas to be their totem . |
| 34 | The soldiers and police guarding the gate heard , ‘ By the wires of Greenham , we sit down and weep , weep for this our land ’ . |
| 35 | At least one grammarian is of the opinion that the bare infinitive can also be used in this type of context : The active voice is always followed by the infinitive without to . |
| 36 | Friedrich ( 1961 : 34 – 7 ) gives the following list of substantives followed by the infinitive with to : attempt , decision , right , willingness , inclination , need , request , permission , promise , order , wish , petition , desire , goodness , impudence , cheek , impulse , endeavour , inspiration , ability , possibility , chance , occasion , obligation , determination , aim , propensity , the wit , tendency , temptation , hesitation , refusal , reluctance , failure . |
| 37 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 38 | By the rulers of the ancient provinces of Abyssinia and by the nobility as a whole he was universally accepted as Emperor . |
| 39 | They are the knighthood of this war , without fear and without reproach ; and they recall the legendary days of chivalry , not merely by the daring of their exploits , but by the nobility of their spirit . |
| 40 | Some of the gains made by the nobility in the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s have already been discussed , but the opportunities for enrichment were open to men of all ranks . |
| 41 | The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons . |
| 42 | There is a Women 's Institute branch ( the W.I. — known , inevitably , as the Witches International by the habitués of the Smoke Room of the Red Lion ) , a Choral Group , and an Amateur Dramatic Society . |
| 43 | " A day may come — I do not say it will come , but that it may — when bands of Englishmen from the Tweed to the Tamar , sickened by the prevarications of the capitalists and by the continued infiltration of Celtic elements into English life , will arise with guns in their hands . |
| 44 | Finally , while we certainly agree that the policy of the law in regard to the formalities for the creation and transmission of interests in land should be upheld , we have to acknowledge that that policy has been substantially modified by the developments to which we have referred … |
| 45 | The Australian group said it believed that Pearl , ‘ if left to itself , will continue the long-term downward trend in its market position and is unlikely to meet the challenges presented by the developments in the UK and European life insurance markets . ’ |
| 46 | Appearing before a Senate committee that was pondering ‘ the general area ’ of China and its implications , an official of the State Department said of the fund : ‘ It might be used in other areas of the Far East which are affected by the developments in China . |
| 47 | It is specifically about actions by the Crown under a statute providing a prescribed means of law enforcement . |
| 48 | One of the great issues in the revolutionary struggle of the seventeenth century ( and in a sense it had gone on ever since and , indeed , even before Magna Carta in 1215 ) , culminating in the Bill of Rights 1689 , was as to the liability of the subject to be taxed by the Crown without his consent as expressed by his representatives in Parliament and it was an issue resolved against the Crown and in favour of the subject . |
| 49 | But that case was the subject of research by Mr. Glick and his team , and was revealed ( from the reports in Lofft 655 and in the State Trials 20 St.Tr. 239 ) to be a cause celebre in which the great issue ( of immense public interest ) related to the power to levy taxes in the island of Grenada following its capture from the French King , it being accepted by the Crown without argument that the relevant taxes , if not duly levied , must be repaid . |
| 50 | In response to this decision Parliament hastily passed the War Damage Act 1965 with retrospective effect to deny entitlement to compensation for damage for acts lawfully done by the Crown during a war in which the Sovereign was engaged . |
| 51 | In 1536 , when the court of augmentations was established to deal with the lands acquired by the Crown through the dissolution of the smaller monasteries , Stumpe was appointed a receiver for north Wales , with a generous travelling allowance besides his salary of £20 p.a . |
| 52 | A patent is the exclusive right granted by the Crown of ‘ using , exercising , and vending ’ an invention . |
| 53 | But the notion of intervention by the crown of France as a result of default or denial of justice by a magnate , even by a peer of France or his officers , had begun to develop . |
| 54 | If proven that it constitutes Treasure Trove ( i.e. it was buried with the intention of later removal , rather than as part of a funerary burial ) , it is most likely to be retained by the Crown for the British Museum and the finder paid a sum equal to the market value of what is retained . |
| 55 | When , however , a statute provides that compliance with its provisions shall be enforceable by civil proceedings by the Crown for an injunction , and particularly if this is the only method of enforcement for which it provides , the Crown does owe a duty to the public at large to initiate proceedings to secure that the law is not flouted , and not simply to leave it to the chance that some relator may be willing to incur the expense and trouble of doing so . |
| 56 | Woolwich did not suggest that the difference between the treatment of voluntary and compulsory payments was wrong , rather did the principle involve the proposition that an unlawful demand by the Crown for tax or other similar impost per se implied a measure of compulsion or duress which entitled the payer to recover . |
| 57 | The use of the contract army , however , placed the king in the position of debtor to the military captains , most of whom were members of the titled nobility , and the sums owed by the crown to individual nobles might often be very substantial : in 1386 , for instance , the Earl of Northumberland reached agreement with the Exchequer whereby in return for £700 he discharged the king of all debts owing to the earl ‘ from any time past until the making of this indenture ’ , and the earl was discharged of the debts he incurred when he held the office of Admiral . |
| 58 | The only exceptions are the counties of Cornwall and Lancaster , where the foreshore is owned by the respective Duchies , and where grants of the foreshore have been made by the Crown to other parties . |
| 59 | In essence this was less a system than the resort by the Crown to whatever means came to hand for raising and controlling money . |
| 60 | A comparison of the statements with the evidence of the two important witnesses reveals a small but not insignificant number of discrepancies , only one of which was disclosed by the Crown to the defence . |