Example sentences of "by [noun] [noun prp] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in 1750 , Worcester Lodge was built , in a sumptuous style , by William Kent at the end of an axial avenue , the fashionable set preferred it . |
| 2 | He next proceeded to Oxford where his initial reception was unenthusiastic but with great patience Linnaeus expounded his method of classification and nomenclature to Dillenius , first occupant of the Chair of Botany , founded by William Sherard at the University . |
| 3 | By Steven Burgin at the Ashleigh salon |
| 4 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 5 | It was a single speech by Jane Kennedy at the conference of her union , Nupe , spelling out the nature of Militant 's attention if they did n't like you , that caught the eye . |
| 6 | There is a series of delicate cabinet miniatures by Norbert Grund at the end of the gallery which should not be missed . |
| 7 | He said all patients seen by Dr Almahawi at the infirmary had been identified and were being contacted . |
| 8 | The singing of the choirs was less assured here than it had been in the group of European folk songs , arranged and conducted by Duncan Hanner at the start of the concert . |
| 9 | This score , announced by Eddie Docherty at the Trophy presentation , came as a surprise to the Stoddard players who had been reliably informed by Jimmy that he had scored 32 points . |
| 10 | But Jim Magilton 's penalty was brilliantly saved by Martin Taylor at the foot of the post . |
| 11 | A gate set up by Tom Poole at the bottom of the Lime Street orchard led directly into his own garden , a small secluded area which lay at some distance behind Poole 's house in Castle Street and which –contained , beneath the shelter of a lime-tree , a jasmine-covered arbour . |
| 12 | The Soviet interest in undermining Western military influence in the Southeast Asian states also ensured a positive Soviet reception for a proposal by Prince Sihanouk at the end of 1962 for an agreement on international guarantees of the neutrality of Cambodia on the model of Laos . |
| 13 | It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area , and a venue for duels . |
| 14 | Mr Cole claimed that there were attempts by Mr Rowland at the end of last week to have the Observer story more widely publicised , but these failed . |
| 15 | The Kingman Committee , of which I was a member , was appointed by Mr Baker at the beginning of 1987 . |
| 16 | The deadline , the latest of several threatened by Virgin , was announced by Mr Branson at the opening ceremony of a new departure lounge at Heathrow yesterday . |
| 17 | Unable to justify the privatisation of a natural monopoly on familiar grounds such as competition and consumer choice , the government chose instead to emphasise regulation , boasting that privatisation would separate the provider from the regulator — or , to use a phrase much quoted by Mr Howard at the time , the gamekeeper from the poacher . |
| 18 | The opposition Civic Forum , which rejected the Communist- dominated cabinet unveiled by Mr Adamec at the weekend , is demanding a more representative government staffed mainly by experts . |
| 19 | By mid-1989 the centre in British politics , split between the renamed ‘ Democrats ’ , the remaining Social Democrats , and ‘ green ’ environmentalists , seemed weaker than at any time since the leadership of the old Liberals by Jo Grimond at the time of ‘ Orpington man ’ in the early 1960s . |
| 20 | This book is based on a series of lectures on macrocyclic chemistry delivered by Professor Lehn at the Collège de France some years ago . |
| 21 | A subset of the data is now being incorporated into a multinational comparative data set being compiled by Professor Gershuny at the University of Bath , which for the first time enables comparisons of trends in time use , for similar social groups , across time and across countries . |
| 22 | The position remained substantially the same as that described by Raymond Williams at the time of the earlier confrontation : " The consensus on which the English faculty did its best work ended about the time of Leavis 's retirement and new consensus has yet to be worked out . " |
| 23 | The first Canterbury cathedral is known to have been dedicated by St Augustine at the end of the 6th century . |
| 24 | Emma Jane Crawford was born in May 1966 while her father was on stage in The Anniversary , a new play by Bill MacIlwraith at the Duke of York 's Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 25 | He was released and will be sentenced by Lord Cowie at the end of the trial . |
| 26 | There were officers like Lieutenant Moncrieff , promoted by Lord Keith at the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 in order to oblige Scottish friends . |
| 27 | The tradition of an Arcadian settlement in Latium was accepted by Fabius Pictor at the end of the third century B.C. ( fr . |
| 28 | The Peacock Throne taken by Nadir Shah at the sack of Delhi in 1739 and later removed to Persia embodied the strongly developed Mogul taste for precious stones . |
| 29 | When in 1857 something new began to grow in Nova Scotia Gardens , financed by Angela Burdett-Coutts at the prompting of Dickens , the residents protested so vehemently that they had to be pacified by the architect and restrained by the law . |
| 30 | By Angela Williams at the Stage Door salon |