Example sentences of "by [art] [noun] of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Led by the Head of Preservation the Preservation Division is primarily responsible for protecting and prolonging the life of the collections . |
| 2 | By the law of defamation the publisher of an untrue statement which brings the subject into ‘ hatred , ridicule or contempt ’ may have to pay damages . |
| 3 | By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation . |
| 4 | In the provinces most affected by the wave of prosperity the number of cattle thefts reported in 1898 — 9 was twenty-seven per cent less than in 1897 and 1900 ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 5 | By the eve of congress the vote seemed a foregone conclusion : |
| 6 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 7 | Children are influenced most by example and by the kind of person the step-parent is . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes samples are taken of the natural life found in stream beds to construct a biotic index of the watercourse which will indicate its cleanliness by the kind of life the water will support . |
| 9 | By the process of psychology the subject is all too often bound to the negative events in their lives and focuses on the negative results in their personality . |
| 10 | By the process of objectification the ‘ invisible ’ becomes ‘ perceptible ’ ( Farr , 1984 : 386 ) . |
| 11 | According to an assessment commissioned by the Department of Energy the cost of the support structure alone for one offshore wind turbine ( excluding the turbine ) would be £3 million while one machine would cost £34,000 per year to maintain . |
| 12 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 13 | The particles of resin act as an acid resist , the acid attacks the plate between the resin granules producing minute irregular dots bitten into the plate , the tone of which can be controlled by the length of time the plate is allowed to remain in the acid . |
| 14 | The divorce rate also varies by the amount of time the marriage has lasted . |
| 15 | ‘ Interesting place you 've got here , Mr Blufton , ’ commented the sergeant politely , awestruck by the amount of dosh the man had to afford such a place . |
| 16 | The ability to cut down the distance signals travel by reducing the size of the computer is limited by the amount of heat the components generate ; a computer that is too small will get too hot . |
| 17 | Systematic collections were made from peers and from the City ; by the outbreak of war the invested funds amounted to $671,000 — twice the sum in 1911 and worth four years " expenditure — and there was a special cash deposit of £120,000 for the coming election . |
| 18 | Neill LJ giving the judgment of the court said : ( 1 ) Where the parties are , or have been , linked by a contract of employment the obligations of the employee are to be determined by the contract between him and his employer . |
| 19 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |