Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [coord] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sited at the extreme right end of the crag and flanked by broken rock and hillside , it nevertheless provides an appealing climb . |
| 2 | By dusk Lynmouth had been reached , and next morning they went the short distance to the Valley of the Rocks , a strange and desolate dry valley running parallel to the coast and bordered by great castellated tors of rock . |
| 3 | Varicose veins are abnormal dilations of the veins due to stasis and back pressure , often caused by incompetent valves , weak walls of the vein and exacerbated by increased pressure from above , e.g. obesity , pregnancy . |
| 4 | Still , once in the mood and fortified by magnificent slices of roast beef and dollops of mashed potato from the Brazen Head , there was little to check our spirits . |
| 5 | for the supply of food , drink or other goods intended for current consumption by use in the household and supplied by regular roundsmen . |
| 6 | Organised by the RIBA and sponsored by British Gas West Midlands , at the British Gas Conference Centre , Solihull . |
| 7 | Mineral wool slabs are stuck on to the outer face of the wall and held by special fixing devices . |
| 8 | Apolline music , played on the lyre and characterized by regular rhythm and overall restraint , was already familiar in Greece . |
| 9 | They really lived , were visualised by the composer , then the choreographer and recognised by old friends in the audience . |
| 10 | They admitted findings were complicated by the spewing of volcanic ash from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and exacerbated by unusual high pressure weather conditions over Europe . |
| 11 | They included , in addition to the extensive programme at the Primary Schools Centre : programmed school-based INSET ; INSET supported by the Authority but provided by external agents ; INSET related to school reviews ; and the expanding school-led INSET initiative . |
| 12 | Schools that have bought computers approved by the DoI but made by other firms , for instance Sinclair or Research Machines , can not buy adaptors . |
| 13 | Ironically , the protest had nothing to do with the South Africans who were as warmly received as they had been in Jamaica and Trinidad , greeted and feted by the government and watched by Prime Ministers Erskine Sandiford of Barbados and P.J. Patterson of Jamaica who came specially for the historic occasion , the first Test ever played between teams previously kept apart by the ideology of racial superiority . |
| 14 | The single , inspired by the novel and sung by Junior and Ruby Turner , will get its first airplay on television on ‘ Good Morning Anne and Nick ’ . |
| 15 | Each time action is halted for the sake of a picture , it is a picture coloured by the mood of the viewer and confirmed by concrete detail . |
| 16 | Film makers from Television Trust for the Environment will be producing the TV documentary on the " greenhouse effect " , to be launched at the same time as the book and shown by Central TV . |
| 17 | Mark had been twelve at the time and beset by emotional turmoil . |
| 18 | It was the perfect place for what she had in mind , several hundred yards downhill from the house and screened by tall shrubs . |
| 19 | ( I am not entirely clear about the wording of the sentence which I have emphasised , but I think the sense is that the accused can be convicted of obtaining by deception , whether the offence has taken the form of larceny by a trick or obtaining by false pretences . ) |
| 20 | But since ‘ obtaining the possession by any trick ’ amounts to a taking for the purpose of larceny , it is notoriously difficult to draw any logical distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and to decide whether a particular case amounts to the one offence or the other . |
| 21 | An important point , with a view to interpreting the Act of 1968 and understanding comments , both judicial and academic , which have been made about it , is the fusion in clause 12 and section 15 of larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 22 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 23 | 373 , 377b ) that both larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences involved ‘ consent ’ by the victim , because what is involved is consent to two different things . |
| 24 | I have cited these passages in order to illustrate the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and the important , if obvious , fact that the owner 's consent to transfer the property prevents the offender from being guilty of larceny , although the consent was obtained by fraud and , in the words of Megaw L.J . |
| 25 | II , Professor J. C. Smith discusses the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and continues , at p. 20 , para. 38 : |
| 26 | The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft . |
| 27 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 28 | Strong , rigid aluminium faces on the inside and outside provide outstanding security , and unlike plastic panels , the new designs can not be melted with a blowtorch or removed by would-be intruders . |
| 29 | If the leak is from a radiator ( usually along a seam and caused by internal corrosion ) , try adding a special chemical radiator sealant at the feed-and-expansion tank . |
| 30 | If for example rebuilding is necessary and plans have to be drawn up by an architect and approved by local Council , any fees incurred here would be covered . |