Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN THE tunnel between Gloucester Road and Earls Court , the train-supposedly bound for Richmond-has come to a halt : 25 minutes pass , a hot , cross silence broken only by the coughs and tuts and groans and rattling Evening Standards of disgruntled passengers ( sorry , ‘ customers ’ ; London Underground now wishes to refer to the sad user of the subterranean network as a ‘ customer , ’ dictionary definition : n. one who buys ) . |
| 2 | On the first floor , he has devised one large empty space , its two side walls an uninterrupted 200 feet in length , broken only by the staircases and other services springing through its centre . |
| 3 | There was silence for a moment , punctuated only by the grunts and wheezes of the two ancient dames , until Gertrude said : |
| 4 | Not only was she sports captain she was also elected head girl in her final year at school , voted there by the pupils and the staff . |
| 5 | The Tories are likely to have blood all over the walls , cabinet ministers being torn apart by the multitudes and so on . |
| 6 | I slept fitfully but well enough , disturbed only by the comings and goings of my companions . |
| 7 | Since Fate was the power that kept order in the universe , as revealed particularly by the stars and planets , the prevalence of Stoicism influenced the growing belief in astrology in Hellenistic times and in the days of the Roman empire . |
| 8 | A group of unions has endorsed proposals put forward by the Involvements and Partnership Association a document towards industrial partnership was signed in September nineteen ninety two , by the General Secretaries of the A W E U , A U T , B I F U , the G M B , I M S F , N C U , U C W , and . |
| 9 | A number of definitions have been used both by the institutions and by researchers . |
| 10 | Pot plants and flowers that need regular watering will be watched carefully by the children if they are helped to do the watering , and they will be quick to tell us that the guinea pig 's water pot is empty if they can refill it themselves . |
| 11 | It had developed largely as a realistic response to a political environment shaped externally by the rules and conventions of public accountability and internally by the central position of doctors . |
| 12 | Thus the angular and straight lines drawn by the legs were also drawn simultaneously by the arms and hands , which were allowed to cross the centre line of the body , very often with a twist sideways at the waist . |
| 13 | The artists in the index are a cross-section of landscape and genre painters that appeal to solid middlebrow taste and are bought today by the businessmen and professional people of the kind who bought them when they were painted . |
| 14 | The authors have compiled a catalogue of a total of 505 works of art the majority of which were sold abroad by the Nazis and are now in foreign museums or private collections . |
| 15 | They were no longer shading their eyes , and the terrace was now lit only by the candles and the open door into the small sitting-room . |
| 16 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |
| 17 | In a big theatre performance will never be perfect unless the beat is understood more by the eyes than the ears , because sometimes the chorus is almost wholly in the wings , and almost always divided between two sides . |
| 18 | Then , in the 1960s , the bull of controversy was grasped firmly by the horns as the term ‘ Political Education ’ came into fashion . |
| 19 | The garment leaves the front of the body bare , and clings tightly to the parts it does cover , marked only by the hems and a tiny free hang below the elbows . |
| 20 | These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes . |
| 21 | In Germany , too , the clergy were distrusted still by the workers as ‘ black police ’ and the most powerful Socialist movement in Europe was avowedly antireligious . |
| 22 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 23 | Ashore we were greeted pleasantly by the Russians and invited to wander where we wished . |
| 24 | The other trees on my autumn planting list are the Indian bean tree Catalpa bignonioides and a medlar Mespilus germanica , brought here by the Romans but nowadays found only in old gardens . |
| 25 | How long before she gets eaten away by the meths and dissolves into dust blown by the wind ? |
| 26 | The useless girl that I was might have grown without diversion , etiolated and bland like a stalk of grass under a stone , from those early days , represented still by the dolls and bears that lay on the cupboard shelves . |
| 27 | So the principal is supported both by the members and by the public . |
| 28 | Johansson and Rumar ( 1966 ) stopped over 1,000 drivers by the roadside 710m along the road from a road sign placed there by the experimenters and asked the drivers to describe the last road sign they had seen . |
| 29 | We tried to write letters to you — but they were taken away by the cai and burned . |
| 30 | As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported . |