Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 2 | There was no true communion between human spirits , so essential to society 's progression as a whole , and compassion had been eroded by the calamities of mankind 's mistakes . |
| 3 | Judging by the greenhouses in JTR 's sketch there were grapes and more at the Castle prior to the 1920s . |
| 4 | The money-management systems identified in studies of white couples may not capture , either , the ‘ moral economy of kin ’ described by the respondents in Afshar 's study of Pakistani women . |
| 5 | The outcome had remained finely poised until the last months of Henry 's reign , when the conservative cause was seriously damaged by the actions of Norfolk 's son , the Earl of Surrey . |
| 6 | On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Auld J. on 7 June 1991 , the applicant in the first case , Renee Joyce Calder , a barrister , sought an order of certiorari to quash the finding by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 6 March 1991 , upholding a decision of a disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court that the applicant was guilty of professional misconduct but varying the sentence from disbarment to one of five years ' suspension . |
| 7 | Regina v. Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn , Ex parte Persaud On an application for judicial review made pursuant to leave granted by Rose J. on 17 September 1991 , the applicant in the second case , Norman Persaud , a barrister , sought inter alia , an order of certiorari to quash an order made by the Visitors to Lincoln 's Inn on 31 July 1991 whereby it was held that the applicants ' petition of appeal , dated 28 September 1990 , from the findings and the sentence of the disciplinary tribunal of the Council of the Inns of Court be dismissed . |
| 8 | The possible is dictated by the limits of men 's tolerance . |
| 9 | The myth of a Maronite majority thus had to be accepted by the Muslims for Lebanon 's ‘ democracy ’ to work . |
| 10 | Whatever it was that these men planned , Trent remained certain that it was too sophisticated to have been plotted by the murderers of Colombia 's drug trade . |
| 11 | Make sure you see some of Tenerife 's fascinating scenery during your holiday — join in some of our most popular trips , including a cruise on the Nostramo , an authentic Spanish galleon or our ‘ Skool Dinners ’ BBQ ; the ‘ Last Resort ’ , a special cabaret by the reps in Tenerife 's top nightclub and the very popular Medieval Night — a delicious banquet in an old castle with jousting displays followed by a live , top named band . |
| 12 | By the looks of Sherwood 's 36 p.c. rise to a record pre-tax profit of £14½m in 1991 , the past was not bad either . |
| 13 | There was some congestion along the coast , compounded by the bottlenecks at Connah 's Quay , where Down fast and slow lines converged as far as Muspratt 's Sidings , and again at Llandulas . |
| 14 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 15 | Pilger was worried by the descriptions of Sutton 's Beechwood performance , but was more concerned that progress should be made on his list of key editorial appointments . |
| 16 | Those are important and worthwhile projects , and we must ask the Government where the money for them will come from , especially if £1.4 billion is gobbled up by the proposals for King 's Cross . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | At ten o'clock at night The Street was a deserted tree-lined tunnel illuminated by the headlights of Newman 's Mercedes 280E . |
| 19 | Quite the opposite , it was an association of two men wholly different in character and outlook , brought together by the circumstances of Anselm 's exile . |
| 20 | The business sector of the city was also upset by the circumstances of Rauschning 's departure . |
| 21 | Tens of thousands of their fellows were murdered by the forces of Croatia 's wartime fascist state in the most bestial way . |
| 22 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 23 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 24 | The government 's economic policy was determined largely by the demands of Portugal 's membership since 1986 of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 25 | Christine Edzard 's original script for THE FOOL was suggested by the writings of Dicken 's contemporary Henry Mayhew whose collected interviews with traders , criminals , and performers of the capital are familiar to historians as London Labour And The London Poor . |
| 26 | Esau was designated a man of war by the terms of Isaac 's blessing : ‘ By your sword you shall live ’ ( 27.40 ) . |
| 27 | The morning after the funeral , Jean started trying to fathom the mysteries posed by the contents of Brian 's wallet . |
| 28 | Some of the women with a high specification of standards and routines in the present sample did , indeed , demonstrate a strong emotional involvement in housework and their ‘ guilt ’ , ‘ worry ’ or ‘ anxiety ’ about failures to meet housework standards does suggest some of the obsessional symptoms manifested by the patients in Cooper 's survey . |
| 29 | His tale was a sad one , backed up by the men of Lewes 's troop . |
| 30 | Between 1577 and 1580 he sailed around the world — the first Englishman to carry out the feat originally achieved by the survivors of Magellan 's voyage 60 years earlier — plundering Spanish ships and towns of their gold and silver as he did so . |