Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing in particular that frightens the business community is the possibility of an elected regional assembly for the north-west , with powers to tax , which would inevitably be dominated by the cities of Liverpool and Manchester , to the detriment of everyone else in the area . |
| 2 | The 1956 Olympics at the MCG were opened by a president of MCC , Prince Philip , and were dominated by the likes of Kuts , Cuthbert , Devitt and Fraser . |
| 3 | Their numbers have increased dramatically in recent years , with newcomers such as Labuan ( Malaysia ) , Malta and Mauritius trying to capture a slice of the business traditionally dominated by the likes of Bermuda and Jersey . |
| 4 | However , it would be a false interpretation of the Congress to perceive it as totally dominated by the ideas of Zhdanov . |
| 5 | SINN FEIN president Gerry Adams has been attacked by the parents of Warrington bomb victim Tim Parry for refusing to meet them face-to-face and explain why their son died . |
| 6 | One primary school teacher from Gile describes the problems of keeping a school going once the villagers knew they were likely to be attacked by the forces of Renamo : |
| 7 | In addition Minton was attracted by the colours of Morocco and its rampant homosexuality . |
| 8 | The walk which is organised by the Friends of Belvoir Action Group was originally planned for May 15 . |
| 9 | Derek 's talk , organised by the Friends of Darlington Memorial Hospital , will be held in the hospital lecture room at 7pm on March 4 . |
| 10 | Summary : This fits into a series of initiatives which have been organised by the Islamologists in Paris . |
| 11 | It was during World War II that she was to face her greatest challenge when Sark , with the other Channel Islands , was occupied by the Germans in July 1940 . |
| 12 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 13 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |
| 14 | The rumour that he used his notoriously smooth tongue to get himself recognized as seneschal of France suggests that he was aiming at Anjou , since this was a title claimed by the Counts of Anjou . |
| 15 | This is all that remains of a noble old building once owned by the Bishops of Rochester and known locally as the Old Palace . |
| 16 | At Barrow-in-Furness the site of the new town was owned by the dukes of Devonshire , one of whom was responsible for its planning in the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 17 | All the country round about was owned by the Earls of Chesterfield , who resided at neighbouring Bretby House . |
| 18 | A Greek presence is attested by the altars to Astarte and Hercules and by a gold betrothal ring inscribed in Greek to Aemilia . |
| 19 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |
| 20 | We are reminded by the silences in Leapor 's texts that the pursuit of happiness as an enabling myth , in terms of official precept accessible to women through romantic love and marriage , remains in this period largely a privilege of bourgeois male subjects . |
| 21 | We will be tracing its pervasive effects below , firstly in relation to the largely untrammelled sentencing powers that have traditionally been enjoyed by the courts in England , and secondly in inhibiting policy initiatives that have sought to substitute an element of strategic planning for the policy vacuum that continues to characterize the English sentencing system . |
| 22 | A large number of the old lime trees were felled by the gales in October 1987 , but young limes have been placed in those same positions in order to preserve the avenue . |
| 23 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 24 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 25 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 26 | To her biographer , the meaning of all this was revealed over time and finally clarified by the letters to Ellen Doubleday . |
| 27 | Peter is shown on the plinth , being taken by his father to be educated by the monks at Bridlington . |
| 28 | This brought a titter , although not from the ‘ chair ’ , who had herself been educated by the successors of Miss Beale and Miss Buss . |
| 29 | If Turenne and Gustavus were the leading soldiers on the Protestant side , then Tilly and Wallenstein were the leading figures in the armies of Ferdinand , who had himself been educated by the Jesuits at Ingolstadt . |
| 30 | The son of a highly respected medical practitioner in the Sacred Heart parish in Leeds , he was educated by the Benedictines at Fort Augustus before proceeding to Ushaw to prepare for the priesthood . |