Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike these cherished Angevin possessions , however , Clairvaux had been held by relatively unimportant vassals and by the 1130s they seem to have become more closely attached to the Viscounts of Châtellerault . |
| 2 | By the 17th we knew what we had to do . |
| 3 | But she says the shopkeepers in Dromore are very good and communication is helped by the lip-reading she learned at Mary Mitchell 's class . |
| 4 | They advised me of the best route to take home — and by the best they meant the most fun , not the quickest . |
| 5 | By the 1750s they numbered some 20,000 , entering the trade from Denmark , Scotland , the Hebrides and the Greenland whale fisheries , short voyage men in a fiercely competitive trade , with good wages to be fought for , self-taught , proud and fiercely argumentative . |
| 6 | Whether it was even much of an improvement is open to question ; like many committees it was cumbersome and slow-moving and by the 1750s it had become notably disorderly and inefficient . |
| 7 | By the 1960s he was married and had two children , a son and a daughter . |
| 8 | Average life expectancy was only 43 years in 1880 ; it had risen to 62 years in 1939 , and by the 1960s it was over 70 . |
| 9 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |
| 10 | It always looked better from a distance , and by the 1960s it was a tatty , faded and unkempt relic of another age — impractical as an exhibition centre compared to functional establishments like Wembley or Earl 's Court , unappealing to any hippy entrepreneur or maverick Recreations Department dreamer who might have visualised some cultural cathedral or fun palace . |
| 11 | The heroine of the forties is likely to look like Rita Hayworth ; by the sixties she is close to Audrey Hepburn ; and in the seventies , Julie Christie . |
| 12 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 13 | Thirdly , speakers of a language do not always comport themselves in the manner recommended by the prevailing mores-they can be outrageous , and otherwise " inappropriate " , So such a definition would make the data of pragmatics stand in quite an abstract relation to what is actually observable in language usage , whereas for many linguists one of the major contributions of pragmatics has been to direct attention once again to actual language usage . |
| 14 | It was originally a corn mill but converted for paper production ; by the 1900s it had reverted to corn milling . |
| 15 | By the 1900s it was an established chain with marble-topped counters . |
| 16 | By the 1900s it was discernible though not yet dramatic among most working-class groups . |
| 17 | By the 1840s it was mainly American-grown cotton which was at issue and a tactic largely adopted by Quakers . |
| 18 | She opened her factory , Coade and Seely , in Lambeth in 1769 which at first , in keeping with the times , manufactured ornaments of classical inspiration , but by the 1840s it showed the pronounced influence of the early Victorian decorative style . |
| 19 | By the 1920s it was enjoying a wide circulation . |
| 20 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 21 | Indeed , the movement as a whole had only a brief life , and by the 1690s it was already becoming past history . |
| 22 | Well , by the 9th we still held our two-stroke lead , and slowly but surely the galleries got bigger and bigger . |
| 23 | By the 9th I have written : ‘ terrible BBC programmes , at least they let us hear Mrs Dale and The Archers . |
| 24 | His son 's incarceration at the Belle Grove Asylum cost £200 per year and by the 1780s he was having to dispose of properties in London and Middlesex in order to pay for his European journeys . |
| 25 | By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 . |
| 26 | By the 1780s it was only half as much and by 1807 – 10 only £20 million out of more than £500 million of government stock was held abroad . |
| 27 | By the latter he means theories that confirm , unreflectedly , our prejudices . |
| 28 | presumably by the latter he means the mine at Hawk Rigg , north of Blake Rigg , north of Tilberthwaite Gill . |
| 29 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 30 | By the 1820s they were especially prominent in the campaign for abstention . |