Example sentences of "[art] [noun] by [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bosses were made from a single billet of soft iron ( Härke and Salter 1984 ) and fixed to the face of the shield by means of 4 to 5 rivets whose flat round heads are occasionally tinned . |
| 2 | When the glue is dry , the sides are then fixed to the base by means of the brackets . |
| 3 | Compare this positive reading with the negative minimum found by rotating the sensor by 180° in the same 67° plane to the horizontal . |
| 4 | First , evasion of the UCTA by means of secondary contracts , which contract out of rights under the UCTA , is controlled by UCTA , s 10 . |
| 5 | The building was originally constructed as a brick core which was then covered with thin slabs of marble tied to the brick by means of ferrous cramps . |
| 6 | The labrum is an unpaired sclerite usually movably articulated with the clypeus by means of the clypeolabral suture . |
| 7 | Providing explanations ; promoting a fair hearing of the case by means of : seeking clarification , elucidating evidence and preventing inadmissible evidence , checking excessive domination by any one participant , diffusing emotion , counterbalancing bias , and maintaining high standards of courtesy ; complying with the duty [ mentioned in section 95 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ] to avoid discriminating against any persons on the ground of race or sex or any other improper ground . |
| 8 | The light is distributed over the courts by means of multi sided reflectors , rather than by direct light on to the court as is the traditional way . |
| 9 | Lewis came to the faith by means of what one could loosely term Neo-Platonism . |
| 10 | The first of these attempts to describe the canopy by means of differential equations , and is called the Kubelka-Munk type , after a paper written by P. Kubelka and F. Munk as long ago as 1931 . |
| 11 | As well as bleeping , they can be programmed with the silent option , alerting the user by means of vibration rather than sound . |
| 12 | Since Fokine broke away from the rigid categories of dance or mime , twentieth-century choreographers , following his example , have usually created a continuous design of expressive movement which interprets the story by means of mimed dance or danced mime ( see page 58 ) . |
| 13 | For example , between 1973 and 1982 the retail price index rose 14 per cent more than freight tariffs and 32 per cent more than passenger fares ; while short-term efforts to restrain the deficit , such as the 1984 programme contract , led , as in BR , to restraints on capital expenditure , jeopardizing longer-term possibilities of reducing the deficit by means of cost-saving and revenue-attracting investments . |
| 14 | Local education boards were established to have oversight of the day-to-day operation of the schools within their area , although they were to be firmly guided on the details of the curriculum by means of the Elementary Code of 1903 . |
| 15 | The legal adviser helps to negotiate the firm 's contracts ( and may have to travel all over the world in order to do so ) , keeps it right on matters of company law and employment law , pilots takeovers , etc. , and may , on a wider front , advise on what is proper conduct within a system of self-regulation adopted within the industry by means of a Code of Practice . |
| 16 | Influenced by a learned correspondent , Girolamo Mei , a philologist and student of ancient Greek music and drama who rightly believed Greek music to have been monodic ( but seemingly supplied Galilei with thirteenth-century Byzantine melodies to Mesomedes ' hymns under the impression that they were ancient ) , Galilei argued that the polyphonic ‘ music of today is not of great value for expressing the passions of the mind by means of words , but is of value merely for the wind and stringed instruments , from which the ear … desires nothing but the sweet enjoyment of the variety of their harmonies … |
| 17 | Studying the history of other societies from their own perspectives and for their own sake counteracts tendencies to insularity , without devaluing British achievements , values and traditions ; vi ) to train the mind by means of disciplined study . |
| 18 | It is possible to blow small amounts of air into the urethra by means of a balloon-valve , and in this way see if there are any strictures in the anterior urethra . |
| 19 | The mind has the power of distending itself into the future by means of anticipation and the past by means of memory . |
| 20 | A constant current of fresh air was supplied to the cars by means of ventilators and electric fans . |
| 21 | It is linked to the preamp by means of a lockable multi-pin connector , which is a very sensible idea , as anyone who has suffered from the lead-as-tripwire syndrome will no doubt agree . |
| 22 | Between 1313 and 1322 , with the help of Archbishop Reynolds , Edward II tried to extract grants from the clergy by means of their parliamentary proctors , but so obstinate were their objections and so counter-productive , politically as well as financially , were these attempts that by 1322 the king was content to seek subsidies through clerical assemblies and not parliament . |
| 23 | The ESRC Data Archive 's raison d'etre is to promote the widest use of the data by providing efficient flexible user service , and by sharing information and encouraging the use of the data by means of workshops , bulletins , usergroups , and networks . |
| 24 | Provided that there is normal acceleration on take-off , the pilot should have good aileron control and be able to stop any swing into the wind by means of the rudder . |
| 25 | Financing the bid by means of a rights issue or cash underwritten alternative has the advantage of increasing the equity base of the offeror and improving gearing . |
| 26 | In the end they used a locomotive which diverted the steam into tanks behind the engine by means of a ducted exhaust . |
| 27 | And in the most final sense of all , to be arrested while fighting opposing supporters may be felt as a way of conveying to the management by means of some psychic process the nature of the ‘ really genuine supporter ’ , and the character of his identification . |
| 28 | is securely fastened to the head of the wearer by means of the straps or other fastening provided on the headgear for that purpose . |
| 29 | With one hand used to guide the machine by means of the moulded front handle , the hand that pulls the trigger is supported on the forearm by a foam T-bar . |
| 30 | She climbed out of the wood by means of a stile and took the path that led round the cornfield . |