Example sentences of "by [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While serving in Zanzibar Rigby met and assisted several celebrated explorers : Sir Richard Burton ( who was to be accused by Rigby of withholding payment from porters and other members of the expedition to Lake Tanganyika — an accusation which was denied by Burton ) , J. H. Speke , and David Livingstone [ qq.v . ] . |
| 2 | Announcement by Najibullah of new peace proposals |
| 3 | May 1990 : nomination by Najibullah of Khaleqiar ( who was not a member of the PDPA ) as Prime Minister and appointment of new Cabinet [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 4 | Relations with Pakistan continued to be strained as a result of Pakistan 's active support for the mujaheddin ; an offer to normalize relations was made by Najibullah in February 1991 . |
| 5 | This cut by Sloanes for Hair |
| 6 | By Sloanes For Hair |
| 7 | ‘ WE have achieved progress which has beaten everybody 's greatest expectations , ’ is how XTC 's John Field describes a recent seismic processing breakthrough by XFI in Vietnam . |
| 8 | March : Cancellation by Czechoslovakia of multilateral agreements and agreement to reduce COMECON functions [ see pp. 37326 ; 37334 ] . |
| 9 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 10 | Two opposition movements operate in exile : the Crusade for Democracy in Seychelles ( led by James Mancham , the former President overthrown by René in 1977 ) ; and the Seychellois National Movement ( SNM ) . |
| 11 | A famous letter written by Fulbert of Chartres to William V of Aquitaine rehearsed the duties of the vassal in terms deliberately chosen to be easily remembered by the warriors to whom it was to be read : |
| 12 | Next came Random Century ( Arrow/Vintage/Rowan ) with 15 , followed by Pan with 13 , Penguin with 8 , Hodder with 7 , Headline and Warner with 6 each and Reed with 5 . |
| 13 | In Do n't Count Yourself Out , to be published as an original paperback by Pan in June , Mr Connors emphasises that stress need not be part of keeping fit . |
| 14 | The Second Book of Maccabees presents itself as a summary of a work in five books composed by Jason of Cyrene , otherwise unknown ( 2.19–28 ) . |
| 15 | Being told by Mazzin to be tidy was infuriating , but our anger soon dissipated . |
| 16 | One way out of this dead-end situation , denying as it did the possibility of a human relationship , was taken by Donne in his love-poems , where the woman is no longer on a pedestal but is discovered in bed with the poet . |
| 17 | It could be said that the We/ Us/Our form is rather a mode of self-description when the poet wishes to present his beloved and himself to the world ( as shown by Donne in the Songs and Sonnets ) , and that Shakespeare prefers to keep the relationship on an interpersonal level . |
| 18 | It is certainly the case that the idea that existence is not a predicate , a quality of things such as blueness or hardness , was clearly recognised in classical philosophy long before it was taken up by Kant in the eighteenth century and further refined by Bertrand Russell in the twentieth . |
| 19 | The core of morality was seen by Kant in the ‘ categorical imperative ’ , the unconditional demand upon us to do what is right for its own sake . |
| 20 | Moreover , de Groot 's fears , expressed in 1983 , have been reiterated by Emory in 1988 who states that in 1986 some 26023 tourists visited the islands and that the problems of environmental protection are being exacerbated by the influx of mainland Ecuadoreans seeking wealth in the tourist trade . |
| 21 | Analysts expect these to include a £12 million provision for Channel tunnel losses taken by Costain in its role as one of the members of the Transmanche Link construction consortium . |
| 22 | In particular , given the importance attached by Williamson to efficiency , there is no clear treatment of the tradeoffs that might be necessary between short-term and long-term efficiency . |
| 23 | This section discusses the concepts used by Williamson in his analysis of the firm . |
| 24 | For gases the method originally devised by Regnault in 1845 is often used . |
| 25 | The first of these contains details on 61 surveys conducted by SCPR over the past six years : a total of about 3,000 interviewer assignments . |
| 26 | When the concept was first introduced by Faraday in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century it was very vague , and was articulated with the aid of mechanical analogies and a metaphorical use of terms such as ‘ tension ’ , ‘ power ’ and ‘ force ’ . |
| 27 | Railway Street is a name retained as a fond memory for a public transport system axed by Beeching in 1966 . |
| 28 | By March of 1188 , Frederick seemed finally to have defeated his opponents on the major domestic and imperial fronts . |
| 29 | And that 's precepted to use by March of ninety four . |
| 30 | His results have been criticised by Newton for underestimating the effects of city size on the proportion of Labour voters . |