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 | And , by the same token , the emergence of language is made possible by the developmental achievements of the first two years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | 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 . ] . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Agger was struck by the Pahlavi dogs , particularly the Great Dane , Beno , a vast animal that had a habit of nuzzling peoples laps . |
| 20 | This bouquet is partly inherited , and so the bloodhound can occasionally be confused by the criss-crossing trails of identical twins . |
| 21 | At the level of village life , this pattern provides stability and cohesion , for villagers are interlinked by the criss-crossing relationships of compadrazgo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , it should be noted at this stage that only a minority of elderly patients are heated by the geriatric services . |
| 24 | She felt utterly hemmed in by the panelled walls adorned with religious pictures , crucifixes , statues and ornate candlesticks . |
| 25 | He 's hauled up by the scraped elbows , |
| 26 | At the end was an opening , now almost closed by the crowding trees and bushes , through which one could see the glimmer of the sea and the northernmost hill of the broch islet . |
| 27 | The problem , in other words , is caused by the ethnic minorities themselves . |
| 28 | I became slightly unnerved by the frequent reassurances I was given by fundholders that they would n't do anything to ‘ upset the applecart ’ or disadvantage their colleagues ' patients . |
| 29 | There was the experience for Daniel of falling in the water at a very early age , followed by the frequent admonitions of his anxious parents . |
| 30 | Leaders of large organisations will inevitably find problems in getting those at lower levels in the hierarchy to comply with their objectives — a problem illustrated by the frequent leaks of confidential memoranda and reports in Whitehall . |