Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child 's breathless wailing calmed by the firm slap of the father 's hand , a dead ant revived by the careless press of a passing sole , a wounded finger healed and sealed by the knife 's blade : anything like that made me flinch and veer . |
| 2 | The image of the long shallow craft gliding forward through the reeds in regular surges , propelled by the oarsman 's graceful double-handed sweeps , was a powerful agent of calm . |
| 3 | The battle rages on either side of her in two self-contained halves which balance each other closely : a combat ; an archer shooting towards the angle ; a crouching figure despatching a fallen one ; a figure , his head towards the angle , struck down by the bowman 's shaft ; and beyond him , in the corner , gear ( a shield , a helmet ) . |
| 4 | We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity . |
| 5 | Such registers have long been maintained by unions in industries where there is a tradition of using temporary workers — for example by the printers union ( NGA ) for the supply of casual labour to newspaper printing companies , and by the draughtsmen 's union ( TASS ) for the supply of " casual " or temporary drawing office staff . |
| 6 | The type of use under discussion is therefore exactly parallel to the infinitive of result , except that what has brought the support to realize the happening denoted by the infinitive 's lexeme is left undefined . |
| 7 | This , as we have seen , explains the impossibility of the infinitive in * To snow would be pleasant as against its possible use in I want it to snow : if the generalized person of the infinitive of weather verbs is not specified as referring to the only support with which the notion denoted by these verbs is conceivable , namely it , then one feels a possible reference to any of the ordinal persons which can be referred to by the infinitive 's generalized person ( " you " , " me " , etc. ) , and so the sentence does not make sense . |
| 8 | It was organized by the yacht 's officers , who did all the cooking . |
| 9 | To starboard is a considerable area given over to the navigator and surrounded by the yacht 's ostentatious gallery of navigational electronics : Navstar 2000D Decca , 2000 satnav and XR4 GPs , a Skanti 8400S SSB radio and 3000 VHF and a Raytheon R20s radar . |
| 10 | Elizabeth 's legitimacy as Anne Boleyn 's daughter depended upon the validity of her father 's divorce , and the new government was also propelled in an anti-papal direction by the crown 's need for money and by the general uneasiness about the papal attitude to expropriated church property . |
| 11 | The monopolistic merchants found that they had insufficient capital to advance the loans required ; there was much evasion of the monopolies ; and the export trade itself was disrupted by the crown 's impressment of merchant shipping for war , and its political pressures on Flanders . |
| 12 | But , as I have indicated , the Crown case requires that there must be ambiguity and further requires that the ambiguity must be resolved against the ordinary meaning of the word and in favour of the neutral meaning preferred and required by the Crown 's argument . |
| 13 | The decision to initiate the award scheme was taken by the BMC 's management committee following the recommendation of its training advisory group . |
| 14 | The spelling of ‘ sulphur ’ was first discussed by the RSC 's Nomenclature Committee in 1979 , at the request of the BSI . |
| 15 | The first advertisement in the Not all chemists wear white coats campaign run by the RSC 's Careers Through Chemistry Committee has won a national award . |
| 16 | It is surprising how long this kind of grudge can be remembered , perhaps because the occasion is inextricably mixed with feelings of loss and deprivation caused by the parent 's death . |
| 17 | In continuing to speak of healthy relationships between children and parents , Searles emphasised the resolution of the Oedipal strivings , not just by the child 's identification with the parents of the same sex , not just by the final taboo and containment of the feelings , but also by the parent 's renunciation of the reciprocated romantic feelings with a real sense of loss , and also by the love between the parents to which the child owed his existence . |
| 18 | The deployment was welcomed by the FRUD 's Paris representative , Ismail Ibrahim , as the first stage in an overall French plan to secure a negotiated end to the conflict . |
| 19 | Her hair , snow white and abundant , had been topped off in a ragged uneven way by the home 's hairdresser . |
| 20 | EIRE 's rapidly growing catering industry still has plenty of room for investment , according to a report published by the country 's National Food Centre . |
| 21 | Yesterday 's sudden departure followed what appeared to have been an almost total cave-in by East Germany , anxious to have the matter out of the way by the country 's fortieth anniversary on Saturday . |
| 22 | PARIS — French customs officers along the entire length of the Pyrenees announced yesterday that they were joining the 19-week-old strike by the country 's tax collectors and would be closing the border to commercial traffic , writes Patrick Marnham . |
| 23 | Maan , with no agriculture , commerce or industry , is especially hard-hit by the country 's economic difficulties , including the halving of the value of the dinar , rising prices and more unemployment . |
| 24 | LEBANON 'S Christian leader , General Michel Aoun , last night denounced a draft peace agreement produced by the country 's parliamentarians in the Saudi resort of Taif on the grounds that it did not set a timetable for the withdrawal of Syrian troops occupying the country since 1976 . |
| 25 | For him , life began to turn on a Sunday evening two weeks ago in his Bratislava prison cell after he had been pardoned by the country 's president , Mr Gustav Husak . |
| 26 | DR Gregor Gysi , East Germany 's new Communist party ( SED ) chairman , was shunned as a dangerous idealist reformer by the country 's discredited leaders only a few weeks ago . |
| 27 | Those linked in any way with the half-dozen Marxist guerrilla groups , or who are vaguely suspected of being ‘ subversives ’ by the country 's right-wing extremists , may be shot at , bombed , tortured or killed . |
| 28 | This stopped banks in the bond-underwriting syndicate run by the country 's big three — Union Bank of Switzerland ( UBS ) , Swiss Bank Corporation ( SBC ) and Crédit Suisse — from taking part in issues organised by other banks . |
| 29 | WHAT should Britain do about an examination attacked by the country 's employers ' organisation , by the heads of four-fifths of its secondary schools , by its university vice-chancellors and even by the Prince of Wales ? |
| 30 | THE Isle of Man will remain a corporate tax haven , following the finalisation of the island 's budget yesterday by the country 's treasury minister Donald Gelling . |