Example sentences of "[noun] by [art] [noun pl] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surrounded on every side by the followers of Mohammed — who also laid claim to Jerusalem and its lands — it was only a matter of time before war broke out in earnest . |
| 2 | Far more than a ‘ companion ’ to the Hornblower novels , clarifying and extending the historical background and arranging the events of the hero 's life in chronological order instead of in the irregular order imposed on readers by the dates of publication of the books , Parkinson 's book is related in intention , though not in style and tone , to the amiable pamphlets published from time to time summarising the relationships and activities of the fictional inhabitants of Coronation Street . |
| 3 | Maxwell and Murdoch were no doubt entrenched in their organizations by the complexities of cross-holdings and foreign-registered companies , but their personal holdings were proportionately small , particularly in comparison with their predecessors . |
| 4 | The change comes as part of a bid by the Bishops of Durham and Jarrow to reduce the number of paid ministers by 36 . |
| 5 | He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Kinross-shire in 1964 , and was awarded the honorary degree of LLD by the universities of Edinburgh ( 1954 ) , St Andrews ( 1955 ) , and Aberdeen ( 1960 ) . |
| 6 | Her prodigious roarings and weepings would be licensed in her mind by the examples of St Mary of Oignies ( whose book she had heard in an English translation ) , St Bonaventure , St Elizabeth of Hungary and an unnamed priest she had heard of who wept ‘ so wonderfully that he wetted his vestment ’ . |
| 7 | Not to mention the thousands of pounds pumped into the Tory Party funds by the likes of Rupert Murdoch 's News International . |
| 8 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 9 | Though these letters , in common with other hortatory epistles of Alcuin , mirror an ideal standard of kingship and moralize within the framework of conventional Carolingian political thinking on kingship and its obligations and responsibilities , the image conveyed by Alcuin is of a somewhat vainglorious , quarrelsome and vindictive , even ill-advised aristocracy rent by the consequences of faction and vendetta . |
| 10 | An authoritative Soviet study on the diplomacy of the developing states , prefaced by Firyubin a couple of years before his ASEAN tour , had arrived at a definition of neutralisation on the basis of declarations by the statesmen of Southeast Asia . |
| 11 | Some European legislation , e.g. directives , requires further legislative or administrative action by the authorities of member states for it to become effective . |
| 12 | Originally the yarn for the cloth was hand-spun from wool by the crofters of Lewis and was wholly produced in the Isle . |
| 13 | Blumer and Hauser maintained that ‘ the influence of motion pictures seems to be proportionate to the weakness of the family , school , church and neighbourhood ’ and that ‘ persons living in high-rate delinquency areas are most subject to influence by the themes of life treated by motion pictures ’ . |
| 14 | As the pre-gig DJ 's preference for tunes by the likes of Carter and Senseless Things attests , the Inspirals have stowed away on the bus reserved for hardworking merchants of no-nonsense , boys ' own indie-rock , and their new home seems to suit them . |
| 15 | His eldest son — also John Sich — was a Lieutenant in the Corps of Chiswick Volunteers formed at the time of the threatened invasion of England by the forces of Napoleon . |
| 16 | IN SEPTEMBER 1940 , the Battle of Britain was being fought over south east England by the pilots of Fighter Command , but at the same time the crews of Coastal and Bomber Commands were making heroic , but less well-known , attacks on the invasion barges and German naval forces assembled in the ports and harbours across the Channel . |
| 17 | After the war , his career was interrupted by the Allies ' investigative tribunals and partly blocked in Berlin , Vienna , and Salzburg by the machinations of Furtwängler . |
| 18 | The Turkomans , who were primarily nomadic and semi-nomadic herdsmen , occupied a vast territory stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to Tibet in the east , and bounded north and south by the borderlands of Russia and Persia . |
| 19 | It is flanked to the north , west and south by the villages of Ulrome , Beeford and Atwick , which nestle under the wide open skies and clean air of this piece of East Yorkshire . |
| 20 | Sixty years of studying the swirls , the strokes and lines by the graphologists of art history |
| 21 | On the one hand the ‘ official ’ crime that correctionalists were bent on correcting was either authentic working-class rebellion or an irrelevance blown up out of all proportion by the agents of capitalism for their own malevolent purposes . |
| 22 | They are likely to include the following : ( a ) the execution and exchange of the acquisition agreement ( by which Newco will buy the business from the vendor ) ; ( b ) the managers having subscribed in cash for ordinary shares in Newco ; ( c ) the passing of any necessary shareholders ' resolutions ; ( d ) receipt by the investors of a satisfactory accountants ' report , audited accounts and management accounts ; ( e ) the managers having entered into service agreements ; ( f ) receipt by the investors of certificates of title ; ( g ) the investors being satisfied with the loan and banking facilities being provided to Newco ; ( h ) keyman insurance having been taken out for the benefit of the company over the lives of each of the managers . |
| 23 | Esau was designated a man of war by the terms of Isaac 's blessing : ‘ By your sword you shall live ’ ( 27.40 ) . |
| 24 | Schumpeter ( 1934 , 1939 ) explained the bunching of innovations which generated long-waves by the characteristics of entrepreneurs as industrial leaders . |
| 25 | It was a northern servant of the duke , John Nesfield , whom More credits with stage-managing Richard 's acclamation by the citizens of London . |
| 26 | It was a northern servant of the duke , John Nesfield , whom More credits with stage-managing Richard 's acclamation by the citizens of London . |
| 27 | Indignation at John 's treatment spread the more easily because his brothers-in-law were Roger Bigod , Earl of Norfolk , and Hugh Bigod [ q.v. ] , later appointed justiciar by the Provisions of Oxford . |
| 28 | Instead , a highly romanticised view of Ancient Greek society became a powerful ideal : a society united in harmony by the bonds of religion and culture . |
| 29 | The ring is broken only at its southernmost point by the Straits of Lothern . |
| 30 | The rest will be given or sold to the public , while those works for which a home can not be found or which have been damaged beyond repair by the years of neglect and the atrocious conditions in which they were kept , will be destroyed in a bonfire . |