Example sentences of "[adv] by [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prince Charles left at 3.03pm , shaking chef Mosimann warmly by the hand as he climbed into his car . |
| 2 | And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby . |
| 3 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 4 | The health service is financed almost entirely by the taxpayer and will remain so . |
| 5 | There are no meanings " per se " , as distinct from meaningful expressions ; and what an expression means is determined entirely by the use that such an expression may be put to within the particular language game of which it forms a part . |
| 6 | It 's a frustrating exercise to wander backwards and forwards through a full-sized abstract , its plans and pages held together by a thread or a rusty pin , pursuing some trivial and tedious point . |
| 7 | Beyond that I believe we can not go , although there are occasionally tantalizing groups of poems on related themes , either brought together by the editor/printer or composed as deliberate variations on a theme , and perhaps copied out on a ‘ sheet ’ of paper , folio size , folded ( which we know was a unit of composition and occasionally payment in Elizabethan poetry and drama ) . |
| 8 | At Nicaea in 325 the bishops and priests ( from the Western part of the empire , only priests attended ) were called together by the emperor because theological disputes were putting too much of a strain on the unity he was striving to achieve . |
| 9 | The international team , who are coaches and hosts by day , don their entertainer hats and launch into shows and competitions put together by the staff and holidaymakers , who would surprise themselves and us with their undiscovered talent . |
| 10 | The rocks and stones for thirty yards around had been flung outwards by the blast and an unlucky gorse-bush had been reduced and stripped to blackened twigs . |
| 11 | It is set annually by the Government and can not rise by more than the rate of inflation . |
| 12 | I was thrilled , of course , but this was tempered somewhat by the knowledge that my mother was standing in full view , three feet away , leafing through a pattern book . |
| 13 | He was relieved somewhat by the fact that the horse did not balk at approaching the house . |
| 14 | The curia was worried by talk of modernization — especially perhaps by the thought that 2,500 bishops in Rome might make them change their procedures in unwelcome ways . |
| 15 | It was a startling promise , stimulated perhaps by the fact that he did not have to reveal his name and live up to his words . |
| 16 | Her natural passivity , encouraged by her religion and perhaps by the fact that she was pregnant , committed her to a mood of acceptance that was sweetly and hermetically selfish . |
| 17 | He took her gently by the waist and pulled her on top of him . |
| 18 | A murdering Fascist , ’ I cried and Richard took me gently by the shoulders and pushed me towards the door . |
| 19 | Before she got a word out Guy seized her gently by the shoulders and turned her around , so that he stood between her and Ralf . |
| 20 | The policeman took her gently by the arm and walked her over to the counter . |
| 21 | She shakes me gently by the hand and announces quietly , ‘ I 've just got out of the bath . ’ |
| 22 | Transit passage is to be enjoyed by ‘ all ships and aircraft ’ not merely by the ships and aircraft of States parties . |
| 23 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 24 | When it was over Viola swept up to Rose , took her impulsively by the hand and murmured words of comfort . |
| 25 | ‘ All costs charges and expenses incurred hereunder by the bank or by the receiver in perfecting or otherwise in connection with this security or in respect of the property hereby charged including ( without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing ) all costs of all proceedings for the enforcement of the security hereby constituted or for obtaining payment of the moneys hereby secured or arising out of or in connection with the acts authorised by clause 7 hereof ( whether or not such costs charges and expenses and moneys or part thereof would be allowable on a party and party or solicitor and own client taxation by this court ) shall be recoverable from the companies as a debt … and shall be charged on the premises comprised herein … |
| 26 | He was seen doing so by a policeman and arrested , but it was held by the Divisional Court that he should not have been convicted , since on those facts ( even accepting that the conduct was insulting ) no breach of the peace was likely . |
| 27 | This emerged as the Butt Report and was immediately rejected out of hand by the incumbent Commander-in-Chief , Bomber Command , but not so by the Army and Navy to whom the report had been leaked and who were bent on carving Bomber Command up between them for their desperate needs in the Western Approaches and in the war in the desert . |
| 28 | For many years I have wished to ask my aunt to visit our beautiful town , ’ she wrote , ‘ but have been deterred from doing so by the knowledge that she would have to pass this stark , staring figure . |
| 29 | Not so by the oboe or clarinet . |
| 30 | They were not instructed to do so by the apostles and their doing it was not a condition of membership of the church community . |