Example sentences of "[Wh det] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989 , however , the University allocated the VanDyck Gallery in Park Row to the Collection and the following year , which by a happy coincidence marked its 40th anniversary , the Theatre Collection was able for the first time to mount an exhibition in its own Gallery . |
| 2 | Colin Wilson 's The Outsider , for example , which by a glorious coincidence appeared in May 1956 — the very month of the appearance of John Osborne 's first performed play Look Back in Anger — was a bookish , self-educated exegesis of a fat clutch of heady topics including violence and mysticism , all untidily carved out of a huge , unfinished novel about Jack the Ripper . |
| 3 | Third , the opposed relationship , I dominating in twenty-seven sonnets , in nineteen of which by a ratio of at least two to one . |
| 4 | This will specify some feature or features possession of which by a suggested rule is taken as a conclusive affirmative indication that it is a rule of the group to be supported by the social pressure it exerts . |
| 5 | The second big battle that Russell had in his unswerving pursuit of truth was with German idealism , mainly Hegelian idealism , which by a very curious aberration from the standard empiricism of the British people , took root in Oxford and Cambridge in the last half of the last century , and was almost for a time unchallenged . |
| 6 | From there they would flow outwards to the masses through all state agencies , which by the 1930s included even the family . |
| 7 | in contrast to the middle classes , in which by the second half of the century contraceptives were available and effectively used , abortion was becoming a ‘ back-up ’ method of birth control ; in the case of working-class women , without safe contraceptives , it was a basic means of family planning . |
| 8 | Soon after joining the WSPU in 1906 she had embarked on a campaign of disruptive action which by the time she went to Epsom for the Derby had brought her numerous prison sentences for offences such as obstruction , throwing bricks , setting fire to pillar-boxes and smashing windows in the House of Commons . |
| 9 | The war fever of summer 1940 was a passing phase , which by the end of that year had again been replaced by the dominant tone of impatient longing for the end of the war . |
| 10 | Having consolidated his base , he launched an aggressive drive that led to the take-over of Newcastle Breweries and several smaller Edinburgh companies to form Scottish & Newcastle , which by the time he retired as chairman in 1969 was supplying about 10 per cent of British beer sales . |
| 11 | It would be wrong to suppose that there was no evolutionary activity among these early mammals : in fact there were considerable changes , which by the late Cretaceous had established early members of several of the principal groups of mammals which dominate the terrestrial world today . |
| 12 | Female friendship is expressed in fiction and especially in letters through language which by the mid-eighteenth century used terms of ecstasy almost by convention : |
| 13 | In this period , however , by far the largest occupational scheme was the independently organized Durham Miners Permanent Relief Society , originating in the 1860s , which by the 1890s had 140,000 contributing members and 4,000 pensions being paid out . |
| 14 | Any re-establishment of government authority , be it under the old confessional dispensation or under a new Syrian-sponsored one , would not be comfortable for the Palestine refugee community , which by the turn of the century will number roughly 390,000 , given no significant population movements . |
| 15 | The Haleiwa Theatre was a pink , art deco pleasure dome built by the sugar barons which by the sixties had become the hub of social activity , screening nightly surf movies . |
| 16 | Lord Kitchener , who warned that the war would last three years and not three months , launched a recruitment campaign in September 1914 which by the end of November had created an army of some 100,000 volunteers . |
| 17 | The economic embargo and blockade by the United States and the Contra war had left Nicaragua 's economy on its knees , and its population concentrating on day-to-day survival with terrifying levels of inflation , which by the beginning of 1988 had reached a staggering 30,000 per cent a year . |
| 18 | To the shrine came a trickle of pilgrims , which by the eleventh and twelfth centuries was growing into a flood . |
| 19 | Therefore , a special change point had to be designed , incorporating a point blade in the conduit , which by the operation of a lever , could either deflect a plough onto the change point or permit it to pass unhindered to the old terminus . |
| 20 | Other missions joined in : from 1910 onwards the German protestant Mission produced Pwani na Bara ( ‘ The Coast and Hinterland ’ ) , which by the outbreak of the First World War had reached a modest monthly circulation of two thousand copies . |
| 21 | To further accelerate its growth the society is to launch Llangollen Railway PLC in September which by the sale of shares to the public for the first time will push the line forward fairly quickly to Carrog in readiness for the final leg to Corwen . |
| 22 | The new fiction was contemptuous of modernistic tricks like stream-of-consciousness , which by the 1950s looked etiolated and , what is perhaps worse , un-English . |
| 23 | ( A Mrs. Furness , for example , ‘ was last night seized with vertigo and other symptoms of congestion of the head which by the immediate application of a dozen leeches was presently relieved … ’ ) . |
| 24 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 25 | ( In that case it was a ‘ temporary postponement ’ of Bernstein 's Serenade , the original recording of which by the composer and Isaac Stern was still very much in the CBS catalogue . ) |
| 26 | It was the first of many speeches in which by the measured and skilful deployment of moderate words he visibly affected the opinions of a crucial audience . |
| 27 | The pressure on local councils to obtain building land to cope with housing demand , and the force of demographic forecasts which by the end of the 1950s were being revised upwards , resulted in a series of dog-fights between the large urban authorities and the shire counties , in which the Ministry inevitably became involved . |
| 28 | This rhetoric was offered to make sense of a changing society , which by the mid-1980s resulted from Conservative economic policy . |
| 29 | By the middle of the century , an engineering firm would have a large drawing office ( which by the end of the century might include women draughtsmen ) in which detailed plans indicating exactly where rivets must go , and more highly finished drawings for the client , were prepared . |
| 30 | The jury under his Lordship 's direction found that the appellant had paid all the sums which by the agreement of December 21 , 1876 , he undertook to pay and within the times therein specified . |