Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 formerly an area on the north bank of the Thames between Waterloo and Westminster bridges , belonging from ancient times to the borough of Lambeth ; according to legend it was bequeathed to the borough by a pedlar on condition that his portrait , and that of his dog , should be preserved for ever in one of the parish church 's stained glass windows .
2 Christianity became the official Imperial religion by the Edict of Milan in AD 314 , and thereafter several attempts were made to despoil and eventually destroy pagan monuments .
3 A long time must be spent on suppling the horse by the use of circles , turns , changes of bend and transitions .
4 Professor Charles Wilson views the effects of the Bubble as " salutary " , but considers that the taking over of so much of the South Sea Company 's excess stock by the Bank of England and East India Company perpetuated into the 1730s the situation in which more than half of the national debt was held by the great corporations .
5 and this is followed rather irregularly on its north side by the road from Corton Denham to Little Marston .
6 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 .
7 There seems little doubt that the team suffered badly by being deprived of the services of Ian Gow , a widely-respected , close associate of the Prime Minister who had played a major part in her 1989 campaign and whose murder by the IRA in July had led to the Eastbourne by-election .
8 A final experiment by the police at labour organization backfired disastrously .
9 Perhaps this is why sales of science fiction , fantasy and horror books — the last given a recent boost by a bout of vampire fever — remain healthy .
10 At this time , too , the vigorous and largely indigenous current of thought and research in social psychology in the United States was given a powerful boost by the influx of expatriate German scholars , liberal democrats most of them , fleeing from the Nazi regime .
11 The most obvious direct result of the treaty was the repossession by the Habsburgs of Hungary , Transylvania and the Turkish occupied areas of Slavonia and Croatia .
12 Monica Seles will retain her number one women 's ranking and Jennifer Capriati will be her nearest rival by the end of December .
13 Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains .
14 It is true that small local fortifications , sometimes churches adapted at great expense by the addition of towers , parapets , walls and even moats , might bring some measure of safety , at least against small bands of soldiers or evil-doers .
15 They were set up in close succession by the Secretary of State for Scotland to study the curriculum ( Munn ) and assessment ( Dunning ) in the third and fourth years of Scottish secondary schools ; they kept in close touch with each other throughout their deliberations ; and they presented their reports with complementary recommendations at the same time .
16 Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today .
17 They walked along by the harbour , where the tall masts and the draped fishing nets made a dramatic backcloth as the men prepared for their nightly trip out , working on the nets and the sailing gear by the light of lanterns , and with much singing and swearing and good-natured banter .
18 The Preliminary Certificate was the first SVQ to be developed and awarded and will be followed in the near future by a range of SVQs in agriculture and commercial horticulture .
19 It 's thought the sword guard will be bought by The museum of Wales when it 's put up for auction by the Receiver of wrecks later this year .
20 Second , Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia , which is one of the opportunistic infections listed in the clinical definition of AIDS by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and the most frequently reported , developed within two weeks of the onset of symptoms of primary HIV-1 infection .
21 Falkenhayn was relieved of his command by the Kaiser in August and replaced by Hindenburg and Ludendorff .
22 Payments are made to the exporter by the bank on presentation of documents certifying compliance with the original contract .
23 Livesey , who replaces Mike Hamlin of Gloucester , has been drafted in to give the West Countrymen greater control at half-back after their 21-9 defeat by the North in Bristol last Saturday .
24 Taylor 's position has been severely weakened by Wednesday 's 2–0 defeat by the USA in Boston .
25 Their daughter Mary was born at Linlithgow , of which her father was also fond and to which he fled after defeat by the English at Solway Moss , before going on to Falkland in the wooded heartland of Fife .
26 A 16-year civil war between Unita ( National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ) and the ruling MPLA ( Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ) flared again last September , shattering a Portuguese-mediated peace accord implemented in 1991 , after Unita rejected its defeat by the MPLA in elections .
27 Hateley made his England debut as a substitute in a Wembley defeat by the USSR in June , 1984 , and looked to have made the central striking role his own with nine goals .
28 The change comes as part of a bid by the Bishops of Durham and Jarrow to reduce the number of paid ministers by 36 .
29 The unit prices are published daily in the form of an offer-bid spread ( the price at which units are offered to the public and the price bid by the management for redemption which differ by around 6% ) .
30 All of this was fully recognized when he was awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Glasgow in 1892 .
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