Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , the rhetoric of ‘ partnership ’ has never been stronger : used by policy-makers it seeks to soften the blow of centralization ; used by the professionals it smacks of a desperate clinging to more liberal values . |
| 2 | If a laying cuckoo is seen by the hosts it is vigorously mobbed and chased and , more importantly from the cuckoo 's point of view , its egg is more likely to be ejected . |
| 3 | But by the mid-1960s it had become evident that the post-war promise of unlimited prosperity and the reduction of class conflict was illusory . |
| 4 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 5 | After 1945 productivity growth soared to as much as 4% a year , but by the mid-1970s it was back on the historical , 2% , trendline . |
| 6 | In the mid-1960s its average income was 90 to 94 per cent of the national average , but by the mid-1970s it had fallen to 85 per cent . |
| 7 | The Club is almost entirely financed by the proceeds it gets from turning a large part of the Club into a giant car park throughout The Championships . |
| 8 | Despite their uniform appearance , each has a unique identity conferred by the receptors it bears for antigens . |
| 9 | Critical reservations about New Historicism are overwhelmed by the benefits it has produced in forcing us to reconsider the relations between texts , historical contexts , and the methodologies we use in both establishing and unravelling these relations . |
| 10 | In her case , of course , it is the figure which provides the impetus , although it is usually evoked in absentia only by the clothes it supports ( both shows until 27 March ) . |
| 11 | He had held explicitly , however , that when and where any given species is created is determined by the conditions it needs to flourish . |
| 12 | Although no specific provision is made by the rules it can be anticipated that a practice of serving supplementary or additional witness statements will arise in cases in which the evidence can not be finally settled at an early stage , a paradigm example being personal injury cases in which there may be a permanent or continuing disability or a slow recovery . |
| 13 | Moreover , there remains the failure to refer to the lukewarm approach of the House of Lords to the Barras principle , the presumption that when Parliament continues to use a word which has been interpreted by the courts it intends the word to continue to have the judicial meaning , but the author can no doubt contend that the doctrine has been given a new lease of life by the Court of Appeal in EWP Ltd v. Moore , and A-G v. Brotherton . |
| 14 | The machine must continuously provide the musicians with examples of improvised drumming generated by the models it constructs so that its assumptions about the musical knowledge can be validated . |
| 15 | He argues that a monad is fully determined by the attributes it has and , what is more , that every monad is qualitatively ( not just numerically ) different from every other . |
| 16 | Unlike Pete he smelled nice — Sally thought it was Old Spice — and when he pressed his hips against hers she was excited by the sensations it aroused , not revolted as she had been with the Teddy Boy at the youth club dance . |
| 17 | but it wo n't be read by the cons it 'll be read by the screws |
| 18 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 19 | The nature of a cell is governed by the proteins it contains . |
| 20 | Few of these feel bound by any enduring loyalties : they judge City Hall by the funds it can deliver . |
| 21 | It is important to remember that fleece is a FLOATING CLOCHE and should only be supported by the plants it protects and is by definition just that — a material to ‘ float ’ over the crop supported only by the crop . |
| 22 | In financial terms , it was n't a particularly large programme : by the mid-1980s it amounted to about £300 million . |
| 23 | With terms expressly agreed by the parties it is not always so easy . |
| 24 | If variation were random , as Darwin supposed , then living things had no control over their own destiny — each individual 's fate was sealed by the characters it inherited . |