Example sentences of "of [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Sharing and co-operation between siblings can be observed , and if fights break out the method of handling by the parents provides on-the-spot evidence of management skills . |
| 2 | Mr Robert Mayor was n't too sure how he would vote in a council election , because of concern over reports of overspending by the hung Wirral authority and the effect on the poll tax . |
| 3 | If you need a little bit of nudging by the people working with you , er , then there 's a possible two points for the team . |
| 4 | Karen kept The Joy of Sex by the bed and The Joy of Cooking by the stove , and approached both activities with the same brash , cheerful , unsubtle gusto . |
| 5 | Symptoms of poisoning by the chemical , which is used in sheep dip , include nausea , headaches and muscle spasms . |
| 6 | The mice showed symptoms of poisoning by the Alexandrium toxins produced by phytoplankton , but comparisons with known Alexandrium toxins proved negative . |
| 7 | He would want to distance himself and Ramsey in horror from any possibility of having harboured a murderer , but while the possibility still remained of profiting by a theft , holy or unholy , he would want to retain the appearance of valuing and believing in the thief . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't like the idea of dying by the law , ’ said Silver . |
| 9 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 10 | From here , instead of returning by the same route , it is possible to descend the mountain 's opposite side by taking the other cog-wheel railway from the Rigi Kulm to Arth , the bottom station near the Arth-Goldau junction station on the Swiss Federal Railway main line from Luzern , Basel , Zurich and the Gotthard line . |
| 11 | To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by . |
| 12 | Instead of returning by the old fence , however , ( which looked much worse from the top ) , I continued down the main ridge until the final spur , but this was just as steep . |
| 13 | Accusations of cheating by the use of borrowed external power could easily be met . |
| 14 | of owned by the Swiss , , owned by the Germans , , owned by German , a large number of companies under foreign ownership . |
| 15 | This assembles the finest examples of woodcarving by the Asmat , selected from the collections in Leiden 's National Museum of Ethnography and other museums , and emphasising the striking modernity of much of this art . |
| 16 | Yet the Genn study in particular shows that no amount of enabling by the tribunal can compensate for the difficulties claimants face in attending the tribunal and arguing their cases . |
| 17 | The fact that this will be seen as an infringement of freedom , a form of brainwashing by the God squad , proves how perverted the situation is . |
| 18 | More frequently , the cause of problems can be traced to an excessive desire to stick to policies or to a lack of understanding by the planning officers of the realities of life for developers and occupiers of property . |
| 19 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 20 | Hiring by the week is usually a little less than twice the cost of hiring by the day . |
| 21 | WHATEVER your dream of living by the water in the West Country , now is the time to make the move . |
| 22 | James Grant included ‘ The Pawnbroker ’ in Pictures of Popular People in 1842 , their reputation having improved since the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1745 which had deplored the pawnbroker 's role of living by the miseries of mankind . |
| 23 | A concurrent verbal task interfered with the speed and consistency of tapping by the right hand while a visuo-spatial task interfered more with left hand performance . |
| 24 | The most deeply spontaneous , the gut reaction , from every viewpoint except the destitute , or of a criminal ready to pay for the advantage of robbing by the risk of himself being robbed , or of the kind of anarchist who acclaims private theft as a blow to the oppressive institution of private property , is of being threatened . |
| 25 | To point the contrast , we can look at the process of written production in action through a piece of writing by a 10 year old , Thomas . |
| 26 | What we usually take to be specifically feminist concerns ( e.g. ‘ political ’ ones — whatever that means ) seem often obscured in this body of writing by the theoretical exigencies of semiotics , psychoanalysis , discourse analysis or Althusserian Marxism . |
| 27 | Much has already been said here about the activity of listening by the congregation . |
| 28 | The Scottish Office , after five years of lobbying by the timber trade , and prompted by European Community farm surpluses , has agreed that marginal farmland previously kept for agriculture can now be used for forestry . |
| 29 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 30 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |