Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The New Year 's Eve mauling of Ben Silcock by the lions at London Zoo sparked calls for the introduction of compulsory supervision of mentally ill people in the community . |
| 5 | Now for our second look at the relief work being carried out in Africa by the airmen of RAF Lyneham . |
| 6 | fourth , the regularization of commercial relations with China by the treaties of Nerchinsk ( 1689 ) and Kyakhta ( 1727 ) , and also the building of fortified ‘ lines ’ ( linii ) in the relatively fertile southern borderlands , created stable conditions there for trade , agriculture and settlement , as did the annexation of the rich Gornyi Altai district to the empire in 1758. fifth , after the comparative lull during the reign of Peter the Great , the St Petersburg authorities resorted with increasing frequency to the practice of exiling malefactors and malcontents to Siberia , with the twin aims of punishment and colonization . |
| 7 | Although not as devastated as Gunnerside by the effects of mining , this end of the dale none the less has its scars and wounds . |
| 8 | A production environment that sought to minimize expense was not especially stimulating to creativity , and some idea of the cynicism involved is evident from the instruction given to Adrian Brunel by the bosses at MGM that he could n't make any improvements in the film he had made for them lest his cuts shorten the film below the act 's definition of a full-length picture . |
| 9 | A particularly instructive example is not a temple but an exquisite and in part well-preserved little marble building , the treasury set up at Delphi by the islanders of Siphnos . |
| 10 | Ornithologists gave the bird a Christian foundation and believed that the first mute swans were brought to Great Britain by the Crusaders from Cyprus in 1192 . |
| 11 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
| 12 | From 1063 to 1202 , the duchy of Gascony was held with Aquitaine by the counts of Poitou , but it was , unlike Poitou , held as an autonomous domain . |
| 13 | This particular book was one of many given to parochial libraries in England and America by the Associates of Rev. Dr Bray ( 1656–1730 ) from 1709 onwards . |
| 14 | Most of the extant documents relate to this last period , which ended with the conquest of Persia by the forces of Islam . |
| 15 | In front of me is a Tudor Bible , ‘ Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker , Printer to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie ’ in 1599 . |
| 16 | Netwise 's RPC Toolkit is bought OEM by the likes of Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 17 | Workstations that have been bought in OEM by the likes of Mentor Graphics Corp , Valid Logic Inc , Control Data Systems Inc and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG are also not included , nor are board-level components , multi-user systems that act as hosts to two or more terminals , such as the VAX-11/780 and IBM 9370 or parallel processing systems — or even the ICL Plc DRS 6000 . |
| 18 | These intimations of universal and particular timeless and now reach readers whether or not they have learned to call the sections of Ulysses by the names of episodes , characters , or places taken from the Odyssey . |