Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very high level of demand for labour was maintained throughout the late sixties and early seventies by the trend of capital accumulation . |
| 2 | This is partly the result of inadequate control over facades and signing , reinforced by the trend toward corporate design by major retail chains . |
| 3 | The threat of greater competition brought about by the trend towards government curtailment of professional monopolies and relaxation of advertising rules means that refusing to contemplate the idea of incorporation could entail a heavy loss of business . |
| 4 | Colour for summer ‘ 93 is defined by the trend towards naturals — skin tones , neutrals and pale legwear are set against outerwear 's neutral classics . |
| 5 | This process is aided and abetted by the trend over the past twenty years to encourage the active participation of fathers in the process of childbirth itself . |
| 6 | At any moment the fortunes of ICI are more likely to be affected by the trend in exchange rates , or oil prices , or the budgetary policies of the United States of America , or the attitude to international trade of the Japanese , than by things which are more directly within our own control . |
| 7 | It was decided I should go to special school and my mother 's objections were mollified by the proof of the academic success that many girls achieved there . |
| 8 | The poster shows Campese arrested in full flight by the tail of a pursuing red dragon , with the caption : ‘ Capture the magic of the wizards of Oz ’ . |
| 9 | You 'll be out swinging a tiger by the tail in no time . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 11 | This new field of local political research was stimulated by an increase in local authority activity , especially in housing and urban renewal , in the 1960s and early 1970s , as well as by the responses of community groups . |
| 12 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 13 | The most advanced technical facilities are complemented by the expertise of skilled event planners , technicians and caterers . |
| 14 | The courts may be impressed by the expertise of the social workers ; alternatively , they may tend to side with parents faced with the power of the Social Services Departments . |
| 15 | Thus the case was presented on the footing that the documents concerned had come into being and were held by the solicitors for their client as the result of a suspected intent by a third party to use them for the purpose of furthering his criminal activity . |
| 16 | AN accusation made yesterday that the British Amateur Athletic Board was manipulated into bankruptcy , is to be examined by the solicitors of the Amateur Athletic Association . |
| 17 | These are prepared by Counsel in a Court of Session action or by the solicitors in a Sheriff Court action , on the basis of the evidence on the insurance file . |
| 18 | If this did in fact happen , it can be plausibly explained by the anxiety of lay landowners to provide for their families and by their inability to browse on retirement in clerical pastures . |
| 19 | The second part of Acts is dominated by the mission to the Gentiles , under the leadership of Paul . |
| 20 | A proposal for an internationally supervised ceasefire put forward by the FMLN on Nov. 22 was rejected the following day by Cristiani , who , however , offered on Dec. 10 to renew peace talks . |
| 21 | Doctors and other health workers , who went to work in the zones controlled by the FMLN during the civil war , learnt very effective forms of treatment from the peasants they worked with . |
| 22 | ‘ that , although , by the indulgence of the court , a statutory tenant might be permitted to continue to occupy premises after the making of an order for possession , he was not , during such a period of occupation , a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection conferred by the Rent Restriction Acts which he had enjoyed before the order for possession was made ; and , consequently , the daughter could not claim protection as a ‘ tenant ’ under section 12 , subsection ( 1 ) … ’ |
| 23 | The complaints of radical Kadets that Miliukov and his colleagues were going too far towards compromise with the regime were matched by the regret of right-wing Kadets such as Maklakov and Struve at the party 's failure to grasp the offers made by Witte and Stolypin of representation in the cabinet . |
| 24 | Exchange in such a commodity with Spain may explain the amount of Anglo-Saxon metalwork in the Bordeaux region of south-west France ( Leeds 1953 ) , as at Herpes-en-Charente , as well as the Frankish interest in the area expressed by the campaigns of Clovis from the late fifth century onwards ( James 1977 ) . |
| 25 | A fourth and final strand evident in the 1960s was the atmosphere created by the inception of international research programmes and of increasing environmental concern . |
| 26 | Innovations crossed frontiers more quickly in an age of easy communication , and processes could be exported by the entrepreneur to the place where they would find the resources and markets they needed . |
| 27 | The debate itself was marred by the inexperience of the speakers . |
| 28 | Such proceedings received statutory sanction by the Ordinance of the Forest in 1306 : Edward I decreed that : |
| 29 | In so far as the poor did not crowd into the old central districts abandoned by their betters , their dwellings were built by small speculative builders , often little more than artisans , or by the constructors of those gaunt , overflowing tenement blocks expressively known in German as ‘ rent barracks ’ ( Mietskasernen ) . |
| 30 | They were all startled by the bluntness with which Bigwig went to the point . |