Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] [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 | The most advanced technical facilities are complemented by the expertise of skilled event planners , technicians and caterers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The second part of Acts is dominated by the mission to the Gentiles , under the leadership of Paul . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ) … ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The debate itself was marred by the inexperience of the speakers . |
| 19 | Such proceedings received statutory sanction by the Ordinance of the Forest in 1306 : Edward I decreed that : |
| 20 | They were all startled by the bluntness with which Bigwig went to the point . |
| 21 | Bernice was blown off her feet by the shockwave from the explosion . |
| 22 | At least one grammarian is of the opinion that the bare infinitive can also be used in this type of context : The active voice is always followed by the infinitive without to . |
| 23 | Friedrich ( 1961 : 34 – 7 ) gives the following list of substantives followed by the infinitive with to : attempt , decision , right , willingness , inclination , need , request , permission , promise , order , wish , petition , desire , goodness , impudence , cheek , impulse , endeavour , inspiration , ability , possibility , chance , occasion , obligation , determination , aim , propensity , the wit , tendency , temptation , hesitation , refusal , reluctance , failure . |
| 24 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 25 | By the rulers of the ancient provinces of Abyssinia and by the nobility as a whole he was universally accepted as Emperor . |
| 26 | They are the knighthood of this war , without fear and without reproach ; and they recall the legendary days of chivalry , not merely by the daring of their exploits , but by the nobility of their spirit . |
| 27 | Some of the gains made by the nobility in the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s have already been discussed , but the opportunities for enrichment were open to men of all ranks . |
| 28 | The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons . |
| 29 | It is specifically about actions by the Crown under a statute providing a prescribed means of law enforcement . |
| 30 | One of the great issues in the revolutionary struggle of the seventeenth century ( and in a sense it had gone on ever since and , indeed , even before Magna Carta in 1215 ) , culminating in the Bill of Rights 1689 , was as to the liability of the subject to be taxed by the Crown without his consent as expressed by his representatives in Parliament and it was an issue resolved against the Crown and in favour of the subject . |