Example sentences of "and by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were baskets of flowers with long green trails of smilax all down the length of it , and by every place , above the glittering phalanxes of silver and the shining forests of glass , were engraved menu cards , each held in a little silver fist . |
| 2 | Bureaucracy would be abolished by a return to ‘ primitive democracy ’ in which state functions are discharged ‘ by the majority of the population and by every individual of the population ( p. 38 ) . |
| 3 | Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ ! |
| 4 | So it is possible to kill large numbers of rabbits that are doing a massive amount of crop damage by this method and by no other . |
| 5 | Aneurin Bevan who , as Minister of Health in the Labour government , pioneered the introduction of the NHS , claimed : ‘ Medical treatment and care should be made available to rich and poor alike in accordance with medical need and by no other criteria . ’ |
| 6 | But in David Souter 's court — and by no stretch of the imagination is this William Rehnquist 's court — whoever replaces Byron White will have little choice but to be a judge first , and a politician a very distant second . |
| 7 | And by no way were they going to let the national agreement down . |
| 8 | Two , or three , of them are in , or moving into , the far from populous row of flats , just over the river in South London , which is inhabited by Patrick and Jenny , and by a stunning , boring wife who affords Patrick one of the novelist 's turmoils in a vulgarly-appointed borrowed flat some miles to the north . |
| 9 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 10 | The play is enlivened by the vicious energy of the performances and by a variety of Irish music and dance which ranges from mournful ballads to the jolliest of jigs , transforming what could have been a dreary harangue into an invigorating ensemble work . |
| 11 | In a quarter of the schools , ‘ work was constrained by limited space and by a lack of other facilities such as a water supply ’ . |
| 12 | When Wales were successful in the Seventies ( and even then they could not beat the Blacks ) , mere victory was not enough ; it had to be done with panache and by a heap of points to satisfy the demands of a voracious populace . |
| 13 | Money for the memorial was subscribed by former members of both squadrons , friends and relatives of those killed and by a Cretan friend . |
| 14 | And by a minister who was never elected ? |
| 15 | He telephoned me at lunchtime on that day and by a fluke I had a cancellation , so I was able to see him almost immediately . |
| 16 | In the case of kidneys , this is brought about by several factors — by changed rates of secretion of some hormones ( see Fig. 3.2 ) , by altered activity in the nerves going to the kidney , and by a reduction in blood supply to the kidneys . |
| 17 | An intermediate floor was inserted in the adjoining transept to form a small communal lounge linked to the first-floor corridor by a balcony crossing the chancel and by a small staircase to the ground floor ( Fig 44 ) . |
| 18 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 19 | They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) . |
| 20 | It was further weighed down when German literature seized on the ‘ demonic ’ in Mozart and press-ganged him into its own camp , and by a tendency to put a romantic sheen on performances , which replaced uniformity by even worse distortion . |
| 21 | Chancellor Helmut Kohl is said by aides to favour stronger backing for the allies but feels constrained by empty coffers and by a constitutional provision which arguably bans the use of German forces outside the NATO area . |
| 22 | Markets that were kept apart by government barriers , by blockages to information or by differing perceptions of a borrower 's creditworthiness have been bridged by free flows , by computers and by a vast new trade in the swapping of debt . |
| 23 | One little piece of history was made when Roland Butcher became the first black man to play for England , and by a neat coincidence it was on the ground just fourteen miles from his birth-place . |
| 24 | At Ångelholm , we were joined by two more people , a grim-looking older woman all in black , who looked as if she had n't smiled since 1937 and who spent the entire journey watching me as if she had seen my face on a wanted poster , and by a fastidious older man who I guessed to be a recently retired schoolmaster and took an instant dislike to . |
| 25 | And bridling his ass beneath a wall and by a bridge , |
| 26 | In this century , of all centuries , with the unprecedented brutality of its warfare , with its invention of indiscriminate bombing , with its Hiroshima and its Nagasaki , everyone is in a position to understand Deuteronomy and Joshua , and by a most terrible irony the Jews , after the Holocaust , are in one of the best positions of all . |
| 27 | The offence of incest is committed by a man who has sexual intercourse with a person whom he knows to be his granddaughter , daughter , sister or mother , and by a woman aged 16 or over who permits her grandfather , father , brother , or son to have sexual intercourse with her . |
| 28 | The leaders and the activists were no doubt also motivated by personal ambition and by a jealous regard for their own organizations but , at various crisis points , many were willing to subordinate their own ambitions to the greater goal of ‘ saving Ulster ’ . |
| 29 | I had taken with me my copy of Pascal 's Pensées and by a nice irony came upon a passage which echoed the motto for the ‘ new thinking ’ of János Kádár : |
| 30 | He is survived by his second wife , Jenny , and by a son and daughter from his first marriage . |