Example sentences of "and by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bureaucracy would be abolished by a return to ‘ primitive democracy ’ in which state functions are discharged ‘ by the majority of the population and by every individual of the population ( p. 38 ) . |
| 2 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 3 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
| 4 | And by no way were they going to let the national agreement down . |
| 5 | But in David Souter 's court — and by no stretch of the imagination is this William Rehnquist 's court — whoever replaces Byron White will have little choice but to be a judge first , and a politician a very distant second . |
| 6 | The initial political and social fears of the masses had always been accompanied by a dread of their cultural impact and by a conviction that civilized values and standards could not possibly survive . |
| 7 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |
| 8 | The following two pieces illustrate the way in which European involvement in the Stop The Clause campaign was necessitated both by horror of what appeared to be happening in Britain , and by a concern about what was also happening in Europe . |
| 9 | Before proceeding with an elaboration of the two strategies invoked by company law to legitimate the power of corporate managers , I will give an overview of the traditional model of the company with the object of showing how its development is characterized both by an increasing centralization of the authority to manage the company in the hands of the directors of the company and by a concern to justify this vesting of broad discretionary power in corporate management . |
| 10 | Only in nature and by a return to the land — in song , symbolism , in hiking and comradeship around the campfire — can we find that true alternative to the meaninglessness of modern life and its grasping materialism . |
| 11 | It was further weighed down when German literature seized on the ‘ demonic ’ in Mozart and press-ganged him into its own camp , and by a tendency to put a romantic sheen on performances , which replaced uniformity by even worse distortion . |
| 12 | Claiming that Panic was sacrificing Serbian interests , the Minister without Portfolio , Radmila Milentijevic , resigned on Nov. 28 , followed by Economy Minister Nikola Sainovic on Nov. 29 and by a Deputy Prime Minister , Oskar Kovac , on Nov. 30 . |
| 13 | He observes , not unamusedly , ‘ such is the laxity of Highland conversation , that the inquirer is kept in continual suspense , and by a kind of intellectual retrogradation , knows less as he hears more . ’ |
| 14 | I was greatly helped by both our families , and by a university friend , Flora Christina ( Ena ) Macraild , a rumbustious and stout-hearted Celt from Dunvegan in Skye , who listened with endless patience and compassion while I went over and over and over both hopeful and dire possibilities . |
| 15 | In the case of kidneys , this is brought about by several factors — by changed rates of secretion of some hormones ( see Fig. 3.2 ) , by altered activity in the nerves going to the kidney , and by a reduction in blood supply to the kidneys . |
| 16 | The system was being increasingly undermined , however , both by the growing numbers of those holding Matai titles and by a reduction in the traditional structures through which the chiefs had exercised authority . |
| 17 | The Everglades , home to a huge variety of plant and animal species , have been damaged by oxygenation caused by fertiliser run-off from sugar plantations , and by a reduction in water flow from the Kissimmee river . |
| 18 | Done really effectively there should be few , if indeed any , survivors and by a continuation of this method big areas of woodland can be tackled efficiently . |
| 19 | When Wales were successful in the Seventies ( and even then they could not beat the Blacks ) , mere victory was not enough ; it had to be done with panache and by a heap of points to satisfy the demands of a voracious populace . |
| 20 | He 's garnered the accolades and the money that have come his way by being good at his job , by knowing his strengths , and by a modicum of luck . |
| 21 | ‘ Activity in the leasing market is restricted by low levels of investment in industry and by a shortage of tax capacity among lessor companies , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Even in the 1780s the Foreign Office had probably fewer than twenty employees in all ; and throughout the century the efficiency of British diplomacy was hampered by the lack of effective arrangements for preserving correspondence and by a shortage of translators . |
| 23 | Initially , the women were doubtless drawn by the glamour of the nurse 's uniform and by a sense of adventure ; later , as the French women who had not lost a husband , lover or brother became fewer and fewer , the more frivolous motives became replaced by a formidable dedication . |
| 24 | Course work in the department is helped by a departmental library and micro-lab , and by a range of interesting outside speakers , many invited by the Politics Society . |
| 25 | If this argument has any substance , it lies in the fact that service on an involuntary agent attracts no legal as opposed to practical requirement that there be any supplemental transmission of information to the defendant abroad , whereas supplemental transmission of the actual documents served is required to be effected by the huissier initiating notification au parquet and by a Secretary of State on whom documents are served under the similar United States practice . |
| 26 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 27 | We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters . |
| 28 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 29 | And this was provided , by revolutionary action in England in the seventeenth century , in America in the eighteenth , in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth , and by a variety of methods in most other Western countries sometime within those centuries . |
| 30 | In Wright Mills 's case , the power elite appears to be united by its hold on power ( derived largely from institutional office and property rights ) and by a variety of common social characteristics . |