Example sentences of "it by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FrauenfeId is the capital of the canton of Thurgau , and you reach it by a road to the west , passing through Marstetten and Mulheim . |
| 2 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 3 | The history of ModE /a/ is a traditional bone of contention , and views have been expressed on it by a gallery of famous names from Henry Sweet onward ( for a review , see Lass , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | An Iron Age fortification on North Berwick Law is still visible despite the damage done to it by a quarry which provided stone for many of the town buildings . |
| 5 | If the owner of a watch is robbed of it by a thief , the owner 's rights as rights remain intact ; the thief acquires no right to the watch as against the owner . |
| 6 | Prince Philip had stipulated a maximum of ten years for his period in office , and had extended it by a year to enable Prince Charles , who was serving in the Royal Navy , to take over at an appropriate moment . |
| 7 | And they took a whole level off , they 've dropped it by a storey . |
| 8 | In the case of sliced veneers a baulk of timber is clamped and slices are peeled off it by a machine very like a large plane . |
| 9 | This family is characterised by the disk covered with plates often carrying spinelets or granules which do not conceal them , except in Ophiopholis where the granules obscure the plates ; radial shields usually conspicuous ; one apical papilla flanked with rounded oral papillae often separated from it by a diastema and not forming a contiguous series with it , except in Histampica ; the second oral tentacle pore opening within the oral slit ; arm spines short , pointed and erect , not appressed to the side of the arm . |
| 10 | Men of genius — Dante , Leonardo , Milton , Blake , Turner , Wagner , for example — have attempted to punch holes in the box or to replace it by a stack of boxes . |
| 11 | Notice that effectively the spectrum of the unit step function has been derived by multiplying it by a factor which makes the Fourier integral converge . |
| 12 | This in turn stems from the quite understandable confidentiality on commercial grounds imposed on CSM for all the information supplied to it by a drug firm . |
| 13 | The principal Opposition party is committed to cutting defence expenditure by a quarter , and the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) is committed to cutting it by a half . |
| 14 | Teddy throws a cushion at one , missing it by a mile deliberately . |
| 15 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 16 | In 1983 BR , which was planning a gradual reduction in its PSO requirement , was asked by the transport minister to reduce it by a quarter within three years . |
| 17 | Its competitor , the Manchester Evening News , outsold it by a ratio of 2:1 . |
| 18 | In serving this ideal , one feature which gave the new English its peculiar potency was the cultural mystique endowed upon it by a vision of the qualities seen as inherent in the national literature . |
| 19 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 20 | Because science is public knowledge , experiments and observations should be repeatable ; but an enterprise that depends on trust will sometimes have advantage taken of it by a rogue . |
| 21 | He trudged the maze of little streets , sometimes on the edge of the sea , sometimes , and unpredictably , separated from it by a row of cottages . |
| 22 | This was not Dickens ' fault that he changed the ending , he was practically forced to do it by a friend . |
| 23 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 24 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 25 | If the retail sector is competitive , the derived demand curve will be the same shape as the final demand curve , and below it by a distance representing the marginal cost of retailing . |
| 26 | A predator may have scented what you see and beaten you to it by a matter of an hour or so . |
| 27 | In case of any doubt , locate it by a line from Mizar in the Great Bear through Polaris , and prolonged ; Cassiopeia lies at about an equal distance beyond Polaris , so that when the Bear is low down Cassiopeia is high up , and vice versa . |
| 28 | Apart from indicating past , present , and future reference , each past or future reference is marked to show whether the event in question is immediately connected to the present , is separated from it by a period of time but taking place on the same day , or is separated from the present by at least one night . |
| 29 | Not only does the body clock contribute to the changes that are found , but also we can gain clues about the nature of it by a study of the changes . |
| 30 | Cecilia could see that the man with the bear held it by a chain looped round its neck . |