Example sentences of "by [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luther imposed a coherence upon Christianity through concluding that justification by faith was the theme which unlocked the scriptures . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important issue raised by Child was the methodological problem of imputation ( Child 1941a ; Child 1944 — see also Hartung 1952 ) . |
| 3 | Also driven by water was the ‘ gig-mill ’ , used for teasing woven cloth by means of teasels secured to rollers . |
| 4 | Moreover , it is right to take into account that one mischief sought to be addressed by legislation was the fact that third parties often assisted share-pushing operations . |
| 5 | Not only did the non-working bourgeois become increasingly frequent — in Cologne the number of rentiers paying income tax grew from 162 in 1854 to almost 600 in 1874 — but how else except by spending was the successful bourgeois , whether or not he held political power as a class , to demonstrate his conquest ? |
| 6 | It is generally believed that persecution by man was the main reason for the extinction of this magnificent bird as a breeding species in Shetland . |
| 7 | The event which finally drew the attention of the labour movement to the threat posed by fascism was the overthrow of democracy in Austria in February 1934 . |
| 8 | One of the signs of the eclipse of classics by English was the foundation in 1907 of the English Association which was to propound very effectively the view that the new discipline had become " our finest vehicle for a genuine humanistic education " and that " its importance in this respect was growing with the disappearance of Latin and Greek from the curricula of our schools and universities . " |