Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx himself used the example of the destruction of Indian cotton manufacturing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by British capital using the ‘ battering rams of cheap prices ’ . |
| 2 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 3 | During England 's tour of 1989–90 he celebrated his hundredth Test by scoring his eighteenth century , passing 7,000 runs in the process , and at the end of the series his total stood at 7,134 at an average of 46 . |
| 4 | In March we marked John 's seven hundredth day by erecting a cell-like cage in Covent Garden and persuading as many famous people as possible to come and stand in it for half an hour while the press filmed them . |
| 5 | A flashing volley in the 31st minute by England candidate Ferdinand lifted just over the bar to confirm the Londoners ' supremacy . |
| 6 | In golf 's World Matchplay Championship quarter-finals at Wentworth , Seve Ballesteros beats the American , Chip Beck , 9 and 8 , but Nick Faldo is taken to the 38th hole by South Africa 's David Frost before winning a sudden-death play-off . |
| 7 | Hateley , who celebrates his 31st birthday by facing Celtic on Saturday , added : ‘ Milan would be a glamorous draw and I would relish every minute of it . |
| 8 | A village cricketer has been celebrating his seventieth birthday by opening the batting in a game . |
| 9 | I started-first thing by refusing to dress myself . |
| 10 | The east end was altered in mid-twelfth century by an early chevet design with turrets and flying buttresses which blends admirably with the earlier work ( 264 ) . |
| 11 | These were first brought to St Helena in the sixteenth century by the Portuguese , and later , sheep were introduced . |
| 12 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 13 | But his description of the journey to Jerusalem is even closer to the Ascent of Mount Carmel , described in the sixteenth century by St John of the Cross . |
| 14 | John Murray 's Patronage in Renaissance Italy from 1400 to the early Sixteenth Century by Mary Hollingsworth is the first comprehensive study of patrons in the Italian Quattrocento ( April , £19.99 ) . |
| 15 | Providing the general boundary was the Christian , Pauline , tradition , sustained through the institutionalisation of the Church , and fertilised from the sixteenth century by the Puritan and dissenting traditions . |
| 16 | For a southern French town , still very much in the ambience of the Pyrenees , it is graceless , with less to show than it should have for its history as a local capital , having twice been laid waste in the sixteenth century by Protestant raiders . |
| 17 | In the market place stands the chateau , formerly the bishop 's residence , which was enlarged in Renaissance style in the sixteenth century by the governor who ruled the town after it had become subject to Bern in 1536 . |
| 18 | The Scropes owned extensive estates in Wensleydale ( whose value had been increased in the late sixteenth century by mineral exploitation ) and at Langar in Nottinghamshire . |
| 19 | RATHBONE Brothers , the asset management and private banking group , is celebrating its 250th anniversary by lifting the payout to shareholders by a quarter to 10p , with a 7½p final dividend on July 1 , on the back of record 1991 profits . |
| 20 | The stone Brig o'Balgownie crossing the River Don north of the town was built with its graceful Gothic arch in the fourteenth century by Robert the Bruce . |
| 21 | The oddest is that used in the fourteenth century by the English historian Adam of Murimuth . |
| 22 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 23 | ‘ Qui plus fait , mie[u]x vault ’ ( ‘ Who does most is worth most ’ ) , the refrain in the Livre de chevalerie written in the middle of the fourteenth century by Geoffroi de Charny , the standard-bearer of King John II of France at the battle of Poitiers , who preferred to stand and die rather than run away in the moment of defeat , aptly sums up the chivalrous attitude to war . |
| 24 | Not far distanced from the council , in England at any rate , was Parliament , dominated for much of the fourteenth century by the peerage ; and in that body , too , matters of policy and national finance were frequently discussed , for it was there that kings liked to benefit from the practical experience of men who had taken an active part in war . |
| 25 | To the left of the entrance , at the town end , is its most military aspect : a splendid keep , built of brick in the fourteenth century by Gaston Phoebus , a vainglorious , bad-tempered ( he killed his only son in an argument ) but also tasteful princeling who was an early ornament of the house of Foix-Béarn . |
| 26 | A complication was introduced in the fourteenth century by the rise of the Serbian and Bosnian kingdoms , which briefly controlled parts of the coast , the Serbs during the reign of Dušan in the middle of the century , and the Bosnians under Stevan Tvrtko after 1390 . |
| 27 | It is ironic that the conciliarist idea of power-sharing , buttressed during the fourteenth century by arguments taken from Aristotle , turned upside down the papal stance as expressed by Innocent III . |
| 28 | He was still a moment , watching her , astonished for the hundredth time by the fragile beauty of her , then began to eat again , realising with a laugh just how hungry he had been . |
| 29 | The soldiers were being guided by treaty Nez Perce , who were ambushed on 17th July by Joseph 's warriors . |
| 30 | H.M.S. Edinburgh a type 42 destroyer was commissioned on 17th December by the Right Honourable Michael Heseltine Minister of Defence at the Cruise Liner Berth in the Western Harbour . |