Example sentences of "by [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the late-18th century even communal violence in a traditional cause was becoming difficult to stomach . |
| 2 | By the mid-twentieth century there was a fair amount of crossing with other breeds in order to boost production , and there is therefore much more evidence today of colour spotting on the head , neck and shoulders and an increasing tendency towards overmarking . |
| 3 | By the mid-twentieth century the Guernsey was no longer a park decorator in England but in great demand as a commercial dairy cow . |
| 4 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 5 | By the mid-twentieth century this can be clearly related to the institution of an effective world market in some sectors of art , music and literature , and to the corresponding ( but not always dependent ) sense of larger effective cultures ( ‘ European literature ’ , ‘ Western music ’ , ‘ Twentieth-century art ’ ) . |
| 6 | The earliest figures of this kind were still actors or writers , but the new role rapidly increased in importance , until by the mid-twentieth century the director could see himself , and was often seen by others , as the central productive figure . |
| 7 | After this the Jewish community began to spread into Persian , and by the mid-twentieth century there were probably about 100,00 Jews in Iran , Until Rexa Kahn seized power they were required |
| 8 | By the mid-seventeenth century it had become normal for the wealth of the old people to be transferred to the next generation when they retired , perhaps in their sixties , but for the retired couple to retain houseroom in the family home ; and in order to make disputes less likely , these retirement arrangements were increasingly recorded in deeds . |
| 9 | By the mid-seventeenth century the rather humid Cunningham region of northern Ayrshire in southwest Scotland was already noted for its Dunlop breed of dairy cattle ( and their Dunlop cheese ) . |
| 10 | By the mid-seventeenth century , Sussex 's heyday as a major maritime county was well past ; importance had shifted eastwards and westwards , with a new continental and world focus . |
| 11 | Of meetings which had begun in London in 1645 , the mathematician John Wallis could say : These remarks indicate the scope that existed by the mid-seventeenth century for differentiation between the sciences . |
| 12 | One of these was the Argyll , said to have been invented by the 4th Duke of Argyll , who died in 1770 . |
| 13 | As always with the opening meet there was a splendid turnout , with every invitation issued by the 4th Earl of Deverill , master and owner of the Brougham Foxhounds , having been eagerly accepted . |
| 14 | Suicide For Love is adapted by Matsuyo Akimoto from three plays by the 17th century writer Chikamatsu Monzaemon and Ninagawa 's production involves 73 actors , a swirling snow storm and a river on stage — the company , with true Japanese courtesy , provide plastic macs for the first two rows of spectators . |
| 15 | Named from the small house or ‘ booth ’ of a person named Foster the place had grown by the 17th Century to become ‘ a fair street of inns ’ . |
| 16 | By the 17th century the character of the woods had changed , landowners having planted out cants of chestnut and ash to supply the hop growers . |
| 17 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 18 | The Prince of Wales signed a petition this week on the back of a menu to keep the Three Graces , by the 19th century Italian sculptor Antonia Canova , in Britain . |
| 19 | Not at first sight by the 19th century , which has John Keats reading medicine , Samuel Taylor Coleridge playing with chemistry , and Mary Shelley writing science fiction . |
| 20 | By the 19th century , European domination of the world meant that vast numbers of cultural and natural objects started to flow into the new museums of Europe . |
| 21 | By the 19th century the meat had ceased to be an ingredient and , in Mrs Beeton 's day , the mixture was cooked in elaborate , castle-shaped moulds . |
| 22 | It has a basic negentropic ( formative and organising ) effect even as heat increases , and therefore is the opposite of entropy which is the disintegration and disorganisation of matter set forth by the Second Law of Thermodynamics , which it thereby violates . |
| 23 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 24 | Should not the entropy change for the reaction therefore be positive-as required by the second law of thermodynamics ? |
| 25 | This attitude was reinforced by the second wave of technology which provided instrumentation , ways of sensing and recording data which gave more accurate and reliable data than that which can be detected directly by the human senses . |
| 26 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 27 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 28 | This definition suggests two of the major deficiencies of the international legal system — firstly that there is little one country can do if another fails to abide by the rules , and this is made worse by the second factor , the lack of a comprehensive single body of law that could form the basis of a truly coherent system . |
| 29 | The number of errors which may be reported during any LIFESPAN run is determined by the second parameter of the keyword ERROR_FILENAME in the LIFESPAN configuration file . |
| 30 | A popular view is to regard the latter mainly as young families outbid for rural property , perhaps by the second home buyers . |