Example sentences of "[noun] and by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the House is aware , these proposals are opposed by the entire police service of this country by the Police Federation , by the Police Superintendents Association and by the Association of Chief Police Officers . |
| 2 | The downturn in the tyre industry hit rubber prices , which fell to a four-year low in Asia , despite purchases for the buffer stock and by the American government for its defence stockpile . |
| 3 | The same papers are read by those kids and by the coppers who nick them , and basically they 've both swallowed the same lies . |
| 4 | Mortgage accounts having been submitted to the plaintiffs by the first defendant and by the receivers an order for various accounts and inquiries was made in Chancery chambers by Master Munrow on 14 March 1988 . |
| 5 | He set barns on fire , was up before the magistrates for theft and by the time he was thirteen he was stealing cars . |
| 6 | Innocent was the first pope to proclaim publicly that he was the vicar of Christ — a title that had been used previously of themselves by the Byzantine emperors and by the Emperor Henry III ( d. 1056 ) . |
| 7 | Inhibition assays were undertaken in anaerobic cultures with nitrogen saturation and by the addition of para-benzoquinone , a superoxide scavenger that can permeat tissues . |
| 8 | It was not a final closure and by the new century a younger generation was challenging the social-purity consensus . |
| 9 | ‘ I was absolutely taken aback by my result and by the national result , ’ he admitted . |
| 10 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 11 | The central theme of Hopscotch is the quest for the authenticity which Western man has lost , stifled by a distorting rationalism and by the conventions of the bourgeois social order . |
| 12 | The above bare statement of the facts tells nothing of the mental agonies suffered by persons wrongly accused of murder and by the members of their families . |
| 13 | It was defended by careful missionary work , by books of edification and by the practice of the pilgrimages to Jerusalem . |
| 14 | It captured his imagination , as he later showed in Marmion ; and that imagination was further fed by books in the farmhouse window seat and by the Border tales his aunt and grandmother told him . |
| 15 | Under its 1958 Constitution ( revised in 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1974 and 1976 ) executive power in the Fifth French Republic is vested in a President , who is directly elected for a seven-year term by universal suffrage and by an absolute majority of votes cast . |
| 16 | Order is maintained by the inviolability of the hard core of a programme and by the positive heuristic that accompanies it . |
| 17 | When he was twelve , his psychic sense blossomed and he realized that he himself was one of those whom he had learned to loathe , taught both by his personal tragedy and by the missionaries . |
| 18 | All day this shadow grew in her mind and by the time school was over and she was running along the railway line , it seemed to be running behind her like some dark , winged creature . |
| 19 | One of the earliest military initiatives of the new state — the raising of an expeditionary force to suppress the Irish rebellion — was partly motivated both by security considerations and by the prospect of financial gain , but was also widely seen as a religious crusade ; this fact was clearly demonstrated in the autumn of 1649 , when Cromwell 's soldiers attacked the Catholic inhabitants of Drogheda and Wexford with a savagery which only religious conflict can engender . |
| 20 | In rejecting the full Copernican scheme , Tycho had been swayed by biblical considerations and by the failure to detect stellar parallax , which , if Copernicus were right , would entail an enormous gap between the outermost planet and the closest of the stars — a gap that he , and Catholic scholars too , found unacceptable on aesthetic grounds . |
| 21 | Labour Governments are always constrained by cost considerations and by the financial disasters brought on by all the spending commitments that they claim are priorities and then have to jettison one by one . |
| 22 | Throughout the I930s the parliamentary situation was complicated by these divisions within the major parties and by the aftermath of the disintegration of the Liberals and the defection of MacDonald in 1931 . |
| 23 | The Collector selected just two more of these pistols , a small and reliable five-barrelled pistol by Lefaucheux of Paris , which he wanted to load and give to Miriam , and the English revolving pistol by Adams , which had caused such a stir at Woolwich by its lightness and by the rapidity with which it could be loaded and fired ( up to ten times a minute had been claimed for it ) . |
| 24 | The programme of education reforms currently being introduced by the British Government requires all state maintained schools to introduce more or less simultaneously several major innovations , together with any changes initiated by LEAs and by the schools , while attempting to maintain the quality of their ongoing work . |
| 25 | Werewolf proceeded to try and blow all four stereo speakers and by the time he had the volume where he wanted it , and was playing along on his air guitar , we were through Sidcup and heading for the motorway . |
| 26 | Owing to local trading circumstances , goods were sold by the head office to the public at a fixed mark-up on cost of 25% and by the branch to the public at a fixed mark-up on cost of 20% . |
| 27 | Even before the final settlement was reached , Montgomerie , disillusioned by William 's stalling tactics and by the fact that his own personal political ambitions had been frustrated , turned to plotting , attempting to build up an alliance of Club members and Jacobites who would be able to " bring home King James in a Parliamentary way " . |
| 28 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 29 | From the seventh month onwards there is a marked increase In weight and by the end of that month it is about two thirds of the length and almost a third of the weight which it will achieve by birth . |
| 30 | The character gaps between good species he explains by continued divergence and by the extinction of intermediate varieties . |