Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day he condemned it as " illegitimate and invalid " and rejected opening formal negotiations , this position being reiterated in a resolution passed overwhelmingly by the Congress on March 15 . |
| 2 | In my opinion these financial statements give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Welsh Development Agency and the Group at 31 March 1990 and of the results and the source and application of funds of the Group for the year then ended and have been properly prepared in accordance with the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 and determinations made thereunder by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Treasury . |
| 3 | As the discussion followed between the now cosseted intruder and the male members of the small walking party which had found its grail at the lakeside Hotel , Miss Skelton was deferred to by her father , complimented by her mother , patted and plumped by her friends and avoided only by the chaplain , the Reverend Nicholson , who , Hope judged , was in love with her but too poor to press , too honourable to hotly pursue any claim . |
| 4 | Today it has a distinct weight advantage over its rivals , its 400-day weights equalled only by the Simmental , and the meat is very lean . |
| 5 | Birth-rates recovered somewhat by the end of the 1930s ( e.g. to 1.83 in 1939 ) . |
| 6 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 7 | British portraiture from 1660 to 1960 charted brilliantly by a relay of scholars |
| 8 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 9 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 10 | Once again , this situation is not initiated or maintained only by the child . |
| 11 | Note that because these are special weapons used only by the Engineers School they are not available to character models . |
| 12 | THE expression is solemn , the lines of age etched deeper by the traumas which have torn her family apart over the past year . |
| 13 | Lewis has held the world light heavyweight title for the last four years and was conceding five stone to an opponent rated highly by the Americans . |
| 14 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 15 | Children presenting with acute respiratory infections were referred to the district hospital for chest radiography , and severely ill children were admitted to hospital , where they were treated by standard protocols , and monitored daily by the study physician . |
| 16 | if you want to increase the insulation provided naturally by the cladding , place glass fibre blanket or similar insulation in the space between the battens |
| 17 | Haavikko looked down , his mood changed utterly by the mention of Ebert . |
| 18 | In practice , I suspect that ‘ contracts ’ are arrived at as much by religious and ideological persuasion as by rational discourse , and maintained more by the threat of social ostracism than by legal restraint . |
| 19 | It placed the funding of higher education in the hands of two statutory bodies , a Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) ( replacing the University Grants Committee ) , and a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) to administer funds for higher education provided directly by the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | By 1941 social surveys on the lines pioneered by Booth , Rowntree and Bowley were fully incorporated as instruments of the welfare state , impelled further by the imperatives of planning for war . |
| 21 | The superb sports complex — used extensively by the UK 's top athletes , including Linford Christie , Peter Elliot and Eamonn Martin , offers an excellent tartan track , plus international-standard facilities for more than 20 Olympic sports . |
| 22 | The soundproofing between its three sections is excellent and helped enormously by the fact that the PA system drops sound down from the ceiling rather than pushing it out from the front . |
| 23 | The tradition of Anglo-Austrian co-operation against France , wearing thin in the time of Walpole and strained unbearably by the peace settlement of 1748 , was also submerged by the events of the 1750s . |
| 24 | Work on the former group has shown that in the century between 1341 and 1440 , and more markedly in the last three-quarters of this period , the replacement rate for males was clearly below one , but rose sharply by the turn of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ( 75 , p.27 ) . |
| 25 | We unfortunately missed it , and returned by the longer forest road , although a small compensation is the view looking back of Stob Coire an Laoigh framed perfectly by the pines . |
| 26 | The size of the fee was set and reviewed periodically by the government , for whom it was a useful source of leverage in the informal manoeuvrings typical of government — broadcaster relations . |
| 27 | The Government 's introduction of general practitioner fundholding has been a clear success , a fact confirmed in the independent academic research undertaken by Professor Glennerster of the London school of economics reported today by the King 's Fund . |
| 28 | The Missing Man formation demonstrated here by the A Ten based at nearby Bentwaters , was often a daily sight when Parham was fully operational from nineteen forty three to forty five . |
| 29 | He enjoys support from an excellent headmistress in a school visited regularly by an inservice team based on the local teachers ' college . |
| 30 | She stopped abruptly by the gate to the Albion 's gardens , whirled on him , snapping her parasol shut again : ‘ Because I was annoyed with you that you could even think such a thing . |