Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] by [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A constant current of fresh air was supplied to the cars by means of ventilators and electric fans . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The interest of this case is that it indicates that a sentence of detention in a young offender institution can be justified under Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s.1(4A) ( b ) , notwithstanding the fact that the offender was originally dealt with for the offences by means of a probation order . |
| 5 | We all know of course , writes Stan Thomas that solid timber table-tops should be fixed to the rails by means of ‘ buttons ’ or shrinkage plates , to allow for shrinkage . |
| 6 | In the old days there was no physical access from the running lines to Govan car sheds and workshops , so stock was only brought out of the tunnels for repair and maintenance , which necessitated lifting the vehicles bodily off the track and up through pits into the workshops by means of a large overhead crane . |
| 7 | In Euripides 's play Orestes ( 408 BC ) , Apollo says The gods by means of Helen 's loveliness embroiled Troy and Hellas , causing death thereby , that they might lighten Mother Earth of the outrage done her by man 's excessive population . |
| 8 | 14 The impulse finally arrives at the biceps by means of the motor end plate . |
| 9 | More significantly still , these straight roads sometimes do not run to the nearest village but continue for some miles through open country , reaching the villages by means of side-roads . |
| 10 | The first , very obviously , is the provision of the materials by means of which resource-based learning can proceed . |
| 11 | Each manages to avoid the others by means of a special dividend antenna , one part of which rests on the water surface . |
| 12 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 13 | Adjustment for work characteristics and social circumstances outside work alone reduced the trends in short absences across the grades by 26% for men and 35% for women . |
| 14 | It breathes like the millipedes by means of tracheae and it reproduces in a manner reminiscent of those early land invertebrates , the scorpions . |
| 15 | Hot airflows from an exterior furnace through the stoke hole , round the hypocaust piers ( pilae ) and heats the walls by means of wall flues |
| 16 | Teachers ' expectations , stereotyping and labelling are seen as the mechanisms by means of which membership of an ethnic or gender group results in ethnic or sex disparities in achievements or in particular types of classroom behaviour . |
| 17 | A depressing outlook for aero engine giant Rolls-Royce , sketched in at today 's annual meeting , deflated the shares by 4p to 145p . |