Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 2 | The aim was to knock down 100 skittles , a feat achieved first by the hosts with just two points to spare . |
| 3 | The same sort of calculation seems to have been made by the producers of both Brief History and Soul , the recent BBC2 threeparter presented by Anthony Clare . |
| 4 | As with most classifications of natural phenomena the exact forms of which are governed by the interactions of continuously variable sets of conditions , the classification can be as complex as one likes and the only non-controversial classification is that which puts each reef in a class of its own . |
| 5 | Statistics for calorie consumption in the region show that despite considerable variation between different areas , nearly all the countries raised their calorie requirement satisfaction rates during the 1970s , the greatest progress being made by the countries with initially the lowest levels . |
| 6 | Work is too important and too unsure to be obstructed by the uncertainties of not knowing what is expected and by whom , and by having to continually negotiate what one can do with individual power players . |
| 7 | The management overhead was low , since the restaurant was run by the owners with only relatively junior supervisors . |
| 8 | the amount of business guaranteed by the agents during both high season and low season ; |
| 9 | When it , or its descendants , learns to classify anonymous documents , the copiers of the Middle Ages will be revealed by the data-processors of today . |
| 10 | Obviously defective parts such as broken brake cable , leaking hydraulic fluid , or a handbrake that wo n't catch on its ratchet etc. , can be proved by the observations of almost anyone . |
| 11 | This is a coda to the Old English poem The Battle of Maldon , which commemorates an English defeat by the Vikings in AD 991 , and celebrates especially the unyielding courage of the English bodyguard who refused to retreat when their leader was killed , but fought round his body till all were dead . |
| 12 | A vehicle was heard in the alleyway , followed by the footsteps of either two or three men walking past the open door . |
| 13 | Here … the payment of the majority of the men each week takes place four and a half thousand men are handed their wages by the pay-clerks in less than ten minutes . |
| 14 | The headmaster was Morgan J , known as Morgan J or by the boys as Too Long and Too Loose . |
| 15 | its ideology might be an uncommon sense , branded as bizarre by the norms of more general common sense . |
| 16 | The external threat to it of the restoration of Roman Catholicism through foreign invasion was in the long run less serious than that posed by the Puritans from within . |
| 17 | Dartmoor was used by the inhabitants of both Devon and Cornwall until AD 850 , after which date common rights began to develop for the Moor , protecting the rights of all but the people of Barnstaple and Totnes ( who were excluded after AD 900 ) , while allowing the area to be hunted by the Wessex kings . |
| 18 | Of course , of all the facilities provided by the clubs by far the most important is the pitch itself , and artificial — or non-turf — pitches and practice areas are playing an increasingly vital role . |
| 19 | The bill will receive a third reading , and once passed by the Commons will be debated by the Lords in much the same way . |
| 20 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 21 | This ensures that the needs of amateur radio are taken into account whenever frequency allocations or licensing conditions are discussed by the authorities at either national or international level . |
| 22 | For a time , therefore , they could respond to any restriction of cash by the authorities by simply reducing their cash ratio toward the minimum , rather than having to reduce credit . |
| 23 | In both 1989 and 1990 leave to apply for judicial review was granted by the courts in more than 900 cases , with a resulting delay of about eighteen months between the granting of leave and the hearing of the case . |
| 24 | Matsushita said the transaction was subject , among other things , to working out mutually acceptable definitive agreements and their approval by the directors of both Matsushita and Philips . |
| 25 | The reason was that there were certain areas of Europe which were protected by the forces of only one NATO nation , and consequently these were particularly vulnerable to aggression . |
| 26 | Government was increasingly constrained by the activities of economically powerful groups , both at home and abroad ( notably , in the latter case , the International Monetary Fund ) . |
| 27 | There is easy access to the foot of one of the buttresses where the mammoth task of construction is better appreciated and the industry and enterprise of the builders more fully admired : these craftsmen of a past age here erected a work of art that has become their own memorial and puts to shame the undistinguished concrete structures favoured by the builders of today , builders who have the benefits of modern technology yet seem too often prepared to sacrifice character to utility . |
| 28 | We have no evidence that Vial provided , or indeed could have provided , a three-year course ( apart from that , he was at one point rebuked by the governors for not paying enough attention to his teaching duties ) . |
| 29 | Note that there is no evidence of a demand by the seamen in either Harris v. Watson or Stilk v. Myrick . |
| 30 | Every pupil should now be addressed by the police at least every two or three years . |