Example sentences of "[art] [noun] of the [noun] by " in BNC.

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1 The autocratic leader tended to give orders , and to interrupt the activities of the boys by giving commands to do something .
2 Russian colonial policies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were aimed at maximizing the income of the state by the subjection of aboriginal peoples to fur tribute .
3 Defendants will not wish to lose the sympathy of the court by aggressively attacking the plaintiff 's disability status , especially when there is a second line of defence , to be discussed next .
4 Those conversations , Coleridge remembered , ‘ turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry , the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature , and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination ’ .
5 The Yak was flown airfreight via Anchorage and into Vancouver , making the remainder of the journey by road .
6 One of the ideas the Romans brought to Britain was the fertilization of the soil by manuring .
7 In 1912 Havelock Ellis complained that : ‘ During the past ten years one of those waves of enthusiasm for the moralisation of the public by the law has been sweeping across Europe and America . ’
8 As a consequence , the complexity of the processes by which texts which form part of particular school disciplines — history or geography , etc. — have effects on the ‘ subjects ’ of schools , the students , is also neglected .
9 In tigers , leopards and lions , the hyoid bone of the larynx is joined to the base of the skull by an elastic ligament .
10 The first , very obviously , is the provision of the materials by means of which resource-based learning can proceed .
11 Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue .
12 and Popplewell J. ) by which the court granted an application by the applicant , David Thomas Alves , for habeas corpus following upon the committal of the applicant by the Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate to custody pending extradition to Sweden at the request of the Swedish Government .
13 for changes which are rejected , but do not require resolution by the Director , Information Systems , inform the Development Manager and the Manager of the person who requested the change of the decision by sending them copies of the Change Review Forms
14 However , Trotsky also had to affirm that although the Russian proletariat in power could win the support of the peasantry by appropriate measures , it would be unable to maintain itself in power or pass over to a socialist regime in Russia ‘ without the direct state support of the European proletariat ’ .
15 There were both overt and covert reasons for the support of the Scheme by the Law Society , and the regional bodies , local Law Societies .
16 His son and heir , Charles II , managed to win the support of the Scots by convincing them that he was a true Protestant and that he favoured their presbyterian form of church government .
17 Monitoring is necessary in order to limit the tendency of team members to ‘ shirk ’ , that is , to increase leisure and reduce effort ‘ on the job ’ ( they explain the existence of the firm by reference to the superiority of internal monitoring through observation of the behaviour of team members over monitoring of teams by market competition ) .
18 Whatever Jack Higgins 's inspiration for The Eagle Has Landed , the existence of the story by Graham Greene as early as 1942 is curious , to say the least .
19 It was the first of the total rejections of a previous régime which sent the supporters of that régime into exile , and the exiles of 1814 were the first representatives of a phenomenon typical of Spanish politics throughout the nineteenth century : ‘ a trans-Pyrenean colony ’ with no alternative but to plot the overthrow of the government by revolution .
20 The release of the label into the liquid phase correlated with the digeston of the egg by the pepsin .
21 In general they did not seek harsh retributory sentences once order had been restored and in a surprisingly large number of cases actually went some way towards meeting the wishes of the crowd by doing something to encourage a lowering of prices and initiating or participating in relief measures .
22 After the pilot phase of the programme at the end of the 1970s , revisions had to be made to ease the memorising of the message by changing the Ten Point message to Seven Points .
23 driven on the order or with the permission of the Policyholder by any person who to the Policyholders knowledge does not hold a licence to drive such car unless such person has held and is not disqualified for holding or obtaining such a licence
24 Among the most spectacular drawings in the present show are a study by Pozzo for the ceiling of S. Ignazio , Rome , and a design for a silver ewer depicting the signs of the zodiac by Etienne Delaune .
25 This is yet another reason why we must get to the heart of the problem by controlling consumption , rather than searching hopefully for grand solutions .
26 This is yet another reason why we must get to the heart of the problem by controlling consumption , rather than searching hopefully for grand solutions .
27 The programme also neatly illustrated the heart of the problem by the references people made to the high crime rate which was unemployment .
28 The Heart of the World by Nik Cohn .
29 All this was foreshadowed at the height of the war and in the heart of the Fens by the testimonies of two passionate and knowledgeable countrymen , one a bird-watcher , the other a farmer .
30 Cecilia could clearly remember the days before refrigerators were in general use — she did not have one until 1952 — and remember too the smell of the joint by Sunday lunchtime if you had been imprudent enough to buy it on Friday .
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