Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fly over the solitary rock washed by the glacial tears of sorrow , let there be at your passing , a radiant beam over the gloomy solitary rock . |
| 2 | Accounts written by the sixteen pupils were studied for causal attributions , without any further intrusion from the researchers . |
| 3 | And , by the same token , the emergence of language is made possible by the developmental achievements of the first two years . |
| 4 | The gold used by the Minoan smiths to make all these fine objects was imported from the Egyptian gold mines in Sinai , from the Arabian desert and from Anatolia . |
| 5 | As a child he was haunted by the absent presence of a dead sister stolen away by the death-dealing forces of an unfathomable universe . |
| 6 | With benefit of the ‘ hindsight-ometer ’ , it can be argued that my own movement into a structural limbo contained aspects of the unconscious journey towards a new self-knowledge , when the old values were able to be adjusted if not discarded ; so that it was possible to break through the constraints imposed by the inculcated patterns of police culture , albeit in something of an unprogrammatic and fragmented manner . |
| 7 | Van den Boogard concentrated his study on revealing characteristics shared by the Anglo-Norman fabliaux which could be explained by reference to the peculiar situation of the Anglo-Norman community . |
| 8 | This is one more argument in favour of the general thesis of this chapter : that the trust justified its existence and forged its path in legal practice by the procedural advantages which it was able to offer . |
| 9 | Lord Denning has gone further than any other judge in demonstrating a willingness to require legal representation even where this is prohibited by the procedural rules governing the body in question . |
| 10 | Who ‘ A ’ is , remains a mystery , but she is a creature of clearly inspirational beauty who has been captured with a fluidity of drawing and subtlety of palette that would be envied by the greatest masters of the French Impressionist School . |
| 11 | Only Sinead O'Connor would have the courage , the reckless spirit , to take on songs made famous by the greatest singers — Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Peggy Lee — to sing them live in front of a 47-piece orchestra , then take on organised religion and blame it for child abuse , and damn the consequences . |
| 12 | However , according to our first prevalence study , it was those areas characterised by the greatest levels of social deprivation that contained both the largest absolute numbers of users and the highest proportions of users . |
| 13 | The Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications has released figures relating to planned investment in equipment by the Japanese telecommunications industry in fiscal 1993 , which ends next month ( Japan confusingly calls it fiscal 1992 ) . |
| 14 | Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme . |
| 15 | Acid rain was found in 85 per cent of samples taken from 23,000 locations in Japan in a three-month survey conducted earlier this year by the Japanese Consumers ' Co-operative Union ( JCCU ) . |
| 16 | Reports published by the Japanese Fisheries Agency ( a government organisation ) between 1968 and 1971 blamed dolphins for damaging fishing gear , stealing hooked fish from fishermen 's lines , dispersing fish schools and causing fish to stop feeding . |
| 17 | An investigation by the Japanese Fisheries Agency concluded in an announcement by the Foreign Ministry that the dolphins had committed a " mass suicide " from which local fisherman had been trying to save them by driving them back into the sea . |
| 18 | In this sense , it is unlike Barrie 's Neverland — a place which , however fantastical and fey , is governed by the alternative rules that must underpin any convincing alternative universe . |
| 19 | In this sense , it is unlike Barrie 's Neverland — a place which , however fantastical and fey , is governed by the alternative rules that must underpin any convincing alternative universe . |
| 20 | Preliminary findings by the Alternative Fluorocarbons Environmental Acceptability Study ( AREAS ) , claimed that " replacement of CFCs with suitable HCFCs or HFCs can yield a dramatic benefit in reducing the total global warming impact for all CFC end-use applications " . |
| 21 | The idea was developed in discussions with another manufacturer of lace-making machinery who had moved to Chard in the late 1830s , William Samuel Henson ( 1812–1888 ) , and was inspired by the aeronautical writings and experiments of Sir George Cayley [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | He persuaded Brannen , a natural middle distance runner and high jumper , to take up the challenge of the ten events ( 100 metres , long jump , shot , high jump and 400 metres on day one of a competition , followed by the 110 metres hurdles , discus , pole vault , javelin and 1500 metres on day two ) . |
| 23 | Cosmological recurrence involving the complete destruction of the universe and its exact re-creation , as believed in by the Stoic philosophers , must be distinguished from historical recurrence involving only the repetition of the general pattern of events , as believed in by the historian Polybius , for example . |
| 24 | Agger was struck by the Pahlavi dogs , particularly the Great Dane , Beno , a vast animal that had a habit of nuzzling peoples laps . |
| 25 | This bouquet is partly inherited , and so the bloodhound can occasionally be confused by the criss-crossing trails of identical twins . |
| 26 | At the level of village life , this pattern provides stability and cohesion , for villagers are interlinked by the criss-crossing relationships of compadrazgo . |
| 27 | Heavy fighting continued notwithstanding yet another ceasefire agreement signed by the warring factions on Dec. 13 , providing also for humanitarian corridors to be opened to evacuate the Sarajevo population . |
| 28 | However , it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services . |
| 29 | She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures , crucifixes , statues and ornate candlesticks . |
| 30 | He 's hauled up by the scraped elbows , |