Example sentences of "[noun] by a [noun sg] " 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 | The Loya Jirga approved a number of far-reaching amendments to the country 's 1987 Constitution [ see pp. 35782 ] , drafted in mid-May by a commission chaired by Vice-President Abdorrahim Hatef . |
| 3 | Although tying up , she battled on well to hold off Flying Speed by a neck . |
| 4 | They can find their way into waterways by a number of routes — mainly via those sewage systems which are not equipped to remove them in the treatment process . |
| 5 | VARIOUS : ‘ Night And Day — The Cole Porter Songbook ’ ( Polydor ) with the renewed interest following ‘ Red Hot And Blue ’ , along comes a superb collection of this classic English gent 's epic songs by a host of jazz greats , including Ella Fitzgerald , Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday — out now |
| 6 | So erm , book on which is kind of a character association by a pop cycle analysis and Gan erm , book on Gandhi , which is using cycle analysis , of , of , of , of tremendous contrast . |
| 7 | ‘ I allowed myself to be talked into riding a horse by a stuntman , ’ she says . |
| 8 | Physical improvements and security measures such as controlled entry into each block of flats helped cut break-ins by a quarter and reduced resident turnover . |
| 9 | His funeral in Algiers on July 1 was the scene of demonstrations of public grief by a crowd of at least 10,000 . |
| 10 | It is necessary to identify the nature of typical building materials held in stock by a contractor or developer . |
| 11 | They were on reserve , which meant that they were n't on the shelves but had to be ordered from the stock by a librarian . |
| 12 | A light is continuously shone at the discs and the beam is detected on the other side by a photocell . |
| 13 | Catching them was a simple procedure of setting up a wire-mesh peat basket , held up at one side by a stick , with a string attached which led in through the window . |
| 14 | Comparison of the sequences surrounding these phosphorylation sites suggests that the DNA-PK recognises serine or threonine residues that are flanked on their C-terminal side by a glutamine residue . |
| 15 | To see that they obey , they are flanked on either side by a koonkie who acts as schoolmaster . |
| 16 | Each half of the dorsal lobe is connected with the protocerebral lobe of the opposite side by a chiasma and the antennal lobe is connected with the mushroom body of its side and the central body by the optico-olfactory chiasma . |
| 17 | Opposite the approach road , on the west side of the square , was the centre-piece of his scheme , a Ministerial Reception Suite , which was flanked on the north side by a wing containing the War Office , the Chancellor of the Exchequer 's house and office , and the Prime Minister 's office . |
| 18 | In the Z1 Carbonate , the platform was bounded on the seaward side by a combination of bryozoanalgal reefs and oolitic sand shoals , but in the Z2 and Z3 Carbonates the reefs disappeared and barrier complexes composed exclusively of oolitic sand predominated . |
| 19 | Without speaking , Massingham took the next turning to the left and drove toward– it down a narrow road bordered on each side by a terrace of small houses . |
| 20 | The idea of a roadway supported on either side by a coal pillar and supported in the er in the beam of the roof er by er roof bolts making that beam stronger , so that the sides will support the beam , is a good one . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Coroner , the jury have , after very careful deliberation on all the evidence submitted to them , unanimously agreed that the evidence is too conflicting for them to definitely establish the guilt of any particular person , consequently they return a verdict of wilful murder by a person or persons unknown . ’ |
| 22 | Though Egypt was later to be ruled for centuries by a variety of outsiders , the sense of an Egyptian identity and the grandeur of the past were never entirely forgotten . |
| 23 | The shadows were lengthening as Caroline parked her mother 's car on the small industrial estate and was shown inside the warehouse by a storeman . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A RESEARCH unit at the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education in Wrexham has been given a £130,000 boost by a funding body . |
| 26 | A man was alerted to a fire in the kitchen of his home in Norton Road , Southwick , Sunderland , at midnight on Saturday by a smoke alarm . |
| 27 | A Labour government would have clung to the current parity in the ERM while suffering continual assaults on its aims and methods by a business and financial establishment wholly converted to the values of Thatcherism . |
| 28 | Labouring poets in the eighteenth century have been the subject of lengthy considerations by a number of critics , commencing with Robert Southey 's ‘ An Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works of Our Uneducated Poets ’ ( 1831 ) . |
| 29 | The campaign against the extraction and use of peat was set up last spring by a group of environmental and conservation organisations , led by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation , in order to try and protect what remains of Britain 's lowland bog areas . |
| 30 | In this latter case we get to simples by a process of ‘ Abstraction ’ . |