Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The most advanced technical facilities are complemented by the expertise of skilled event planners , technicians and caterers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 ) … ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The debate itself was marred by the inexperience of the speakers . |
| 11 | Such proceedings received statutory sanction by the Ordinance of the Forest in 1306 : Edward I decreed that : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A patent is the exclusive right granted by the Crown of ‘ using , exercising , and vending ’ an invention . |
| 14 | But the notion of intervention by the crown of France as a result of default or denial of justice by a magnate , even by a peer of France or his officers , had begun to develop . |
| 15 | Children are baptized by the faith of their parents , and on no other basis . |
| 16 | A disciplined band of anti-capitalist men in every town , animated by the faith of Cromwell 's soldiers , could sweep away the rottenness that besets our country . |
| 17 | It is assisted by the tradition of knowledge that values perception and disdains sensation , maintaining that what we feel is less important than our awareness of reality . |
| 18 | The party was established by the 1900 delegate conference dominated numerically by trade unionists , but the initiative and motive force behind the resolution was a socialist one accepted only hesitatingly by the tradition of radical Liberalism belatedly recognising the need for state action to preserve and promote trade union advances . |
| 19 | Explanations of the contrast are framed by the tradition of group loyalty and consensus formation . |
| 20 | In many ways the part of a horseman 's job calling for most of his skill was that concerned with working the land , and using a standard of craftsmanship set immeasurably high both by the tradition of his craft and by the immediate needs of cultivation ; and a horseman served a long and disciplined apprenticeship before he could attain to the standard demanded . |
| 21 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 22 | The population of little more than 7,000 , indicated by the total of only 1,414 taxpayers in 1525 , seems on the low side , and since it has been estimated at 10,625 ( exclusive of aliens ) in 1569 , a figure closer to 10,000 would be more realistic for the 1520s . |
| 23 | Because of the ranking procedure , shares of income run from 0 to 100 per cent as all income must be held by the total of the income-holding units . |
| 24 | Marx , like his contemporaries , seems to have been much struck by the description of a huge empire run without the aid of literacy but held together by a mixture of ruthless military power and religion . |
| 25 | The range of human tasks has already been indicated by the description of the extremes of procedural and diagnostic task analysis . |
| 26 | This suggestion appears to be supported by the description of the demon monster Asakku , with his single-eyed solar head in the epic LUGAL UD ME-LÁM-bi Nir-GÁL . |
| 27 | I was disappointed that the otherwise excellent article on Catherine Destivelle 's recent ascent of the Dru was spoiled by the description of ‘ her brief career as a competition rock bimbo . ’ |
| 28 | What " this meant is made crystal clear by the description of an army on the march in the Chartson des Lorrains : |
| 29 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 30 | Further fuel is added to the great debate of ‘ full body versus sit harness ’ by the description of improvised chest harnesses which might not earn the unqualified approval of every European mountain guide . |