Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain or America or France history making is dominated by professional historians organized in universities and institutes ; their institutional loyalties are cross-cut by intellectual allegiances to schools of interpretation and to further specializations by place and by time . |
| 2 | Also promised are Kandinsky Watercolours , a catalogue raisonne by Vivian Endicott Barnett ( £145 ) and Maritime Decorative Arts by Jon Baddely ( £35 ) . |
| 3 | In 1812 a model of this was sent to the Society of Arts by Hugh , Earl Percy ( later third Duke of Northumberland , q.v. ) , but it made no award of its reaping-machine premium as the invention was ‘ incomplete ’ without proper trials . |
| 4 | The 1992 Building of the Year , the personal choice of the President of the RIBA , was the Jill and Arthur M Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts by Sir Norman Foster and Partners . |
| 5 | They are acknowledged to have a specific connotation in architecture ; particular moments of contemporary Italian culture , though bearing a local label — that of the ‘ trans-avant-garde ’ ( transavanguardia ) , coined for the visual arts by Achille Bonita Oliva ( 1984 ) , or the philosophical notion of ‘ weak thought ’ ( pensiero debole ) , theorized in a series of books and essays by Gianni Vattimo , Pier Aldo Rovatti and their colleagues ( cf. |
| 6 | We just ca n't take any more risks by manufacturing in the UK . |
| 7 | Of course , it is more complex than that because allowance has to be made for convergent evolution , which is the acquisition of common characteristics by virtue of having been subjected to the same selection pressures , rather than because of sharing a common ancestor . |
| 8 | Certain straits have been specifically designated as international waterways by treaty . |
| 9 | Table II compares the actual number of referrals before and after introducing the guidelines by type of examination requested and shows the absolute change in terms of workload and cost . |
| 10 | The reduction in referrals we observed and the 23% reduction reported in Plymouth Health District followed voluntary adoption of the guidelines by practitioners without any reinforcement of guidelines to ensure compliance . |
| 11 | Interested listeners might look to the less renowned record labels , such as Capriccio in Germany , which has issued a superb recording of Mozart songs by Mitsuko Shirai , a soprano , and her pianist-husband Hartmut Hoell . |
| 12 | Also recommended are an early recital by Jill Gomez of songs by Grandos , Turina and de Falla ; three miraculous Debussy discs by Livia Rev , and first recordings by the Hilliard Ensemble and the Camerata of London . |
| 13 | Here we have a stunning solo set of 14 songs including four Coltrane tunes ( Crescent ) [ and alternative take ] ; Lonnie 's Lament and After the Rain ) , standards ( All the things you are : I should care ; Willow weep for Me ) and tunes by Tyner 's influences and friends ( Bud Powell 's Bouncin' with Bud and Dexter Gordon 's Tivolo ) and a quintet of songs by Tyner himself . |
| 14 | Vivaldi Guitar Concerto , Rossini William Tell Ballet Music , Mozart Flute Concerto Number two , songs by Heather , a wind quintet . |
| 15 | Two songs by Ture Rangstrom ( 1884-1947 ) have unusual chromatic colours in hypnotic repeating figurations around simple lines . |
| 16 | Schumann 's Frauenliebe und Leben , and songs by Schubert and Brahms are on while an ‘ Anthology of English Song ’ ( ) has 17 lesser known songs by English composers from the beginning of the century . |
| 17 | With a revival in fifties and sixties pop music , this has now gone further , to the use of hits of this period to sell to the under 25s : the Levi 's 501 commercials of the mid-eighties , with songs by Sam Cooke and Percy Sledge , are now classic examples . |
| 18 | He also accompanied three American Folk songs by Copland , which were sensitively sung , and joined Keir Rowe in the Clarinet concerto . |
| 19 | No less devotion was brought to four songs by Joseph Marx , and although the rather overheated style of Nocturne elicited a few smiles ( Parsons performing prodigies in representing the burgeoning June night ) there was a touching ecstasy in Hat dich die Liebe beruhrt which was delivered absolutely from the heart . |
| 20 | They knew the words of all these protest songs by heart . |
| 21 | The programme had some good out-of-the-wayish music : notably songs by Stenhammar and Rachmaninov , and Prokofiev 's brilliantly direct , inventive setting of The Ugly Duckling . |
| 22 | Gaelic Songs by Messrs. Geo. & Arthur Cowan , C. Dow , Neil McDougall and English Songs by Messrs. James & Alex . |
| 23 | Gaelic Songs by Messrs. Geo. & Arthur Cowan , C. Dow , Neil McDougall and English Songs by Messrs. James & Alex . |
| 24 | As for England , although the lute was played at the beginning of the century , the only music for it in any source earlier than c. 1540 consists of a few pieces in the British Library manuscript , Royal App. 58 ( see p. 186 ) , two of which bear titles showing that they were settings of songs by Sir Thomas Wyatt ( ‘ Hevyn and erth ’ ) and Henry Howard , Earl of Surrey ( ‘ In winter 's just return ’ ) . |
| 25 | They also no doubt discussed the album of songs by Sir Noel that Ken had just recorded for HMV . |
| 26 | For one distinguished American musicologist , the decision of some English scholars and musicians to draw the secular polyphony of Machaut and Dufay into the English a cappella tradition constitutes an ‘ English a cappella heresy ’ , but that phrase may sound rather strangely in a British ear ; it appears to imply that songs by Machaut and Dufay , for example , are best performed within the tradition of the ‘ early-music group , employing instruments reconstructed on the basis of meagre evidence while using musical techniques which draw upon no established tradition of pedagogy and which retain a tinge of 19605 experimentalism and superficial multiculturalism . |
| 27 | The Doctor was standing on one hand now , and juggling five different balls whilst singing a medley of songs by Abba . |
| 28 | Once or twice a year there would be a village concert in the schoolroom , with recitations and songs by villagers . |
| 29 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 30 | To frame this more familiar fare , she presented songs by Enesco and Marx , bringing to them the skill of a dramatic singer without ever overstepping the bounds of intimate communion required by the genre . |