Example sentences of "[noun] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great cultural danger for the English is , to my mind , their tendency to judge the arts by the values appropriate to the conduct of family life . |
| 2 | ( 1 ) ( i ) Damage being caused to any of the vehicles in connection with which indemnity is granted against Damage and/or Third Party Risks by the parties hereto : — |
| 3 | Barclays bought Martins , and was only prevented from merging with Lloyds by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 4 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 5 | I shook my sand-filled ears by the lobes and listened . |
| 6 | Visitors are drawn to that city on the Adriatic by the mosaics depicting the Emperor Justinian and his notorious wife , Theodora . |
| 7 | The breeze dropped and the little valley lay completely still , held in long beams of light and enclosed on either side by the lines of the woods . |
| 8 | The path through the village , flanked on one side by the backs of the houses and on the other by the looming cliffside , was as pervasively dark as a cave and we kept stumbling over rocks , getting our feet wet in puddles and pools of mud . |
| 9 | As , apparently disregarding the speed limit , they sped through a network of small canals lined on either side by the backs of tall buildings Luce enquired , ‘ The palazzo you mentioned … what is it called ? ’ |
| 10 | Surrounded on every side by the followers of Mohammed — who also laid claim to Jerusalem and its lands — it was only a matter of time before war broke out in earnest . |
| 11 | A day of B westerns brought in fans by the droves . |
| 12 | A final experiment by the police at labour organization backfired disastrously . |
| 13 | The southern Mediterranean region is its home , and it was used for many centuries by the Arabs . |
| 14 | These mosaics have suffered great damage through the ages , particularly in countries occupied for centuries by the Turks such as Greece and Turkey itself . |
| 15 | It was formed over the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries by the Princes zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck , and displayed at Schloss Dyck , their picturesque Rhineland ‘ water-castle ’ in the north-west of the country near Düsseldorf . |
| 16 | In fact , most commentators ( and many left academics ) would feel able to divide the " post-war period into three distinct phases in terms of the kind of choice offered to the electorate by the parties in their programmes . |
| 17 | Every other nation in Europe puts that at the top of the agenda , but in Britain training is used as a political football by the Conservatives . |
| 18 | In 1990 the state of Louisiana electrocuted Dalton Prejean , despite a recommendation by the Pardons and Parole Board that his sentence be commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 19 | The election was viewed by some commentators as a trial contest by the Israelis , to establish a precedent for wider municipal elections throughout the occupied territories . |
| 20 | The preamble stated , at length , that the poor within the five town parishes ( St. John , St. Mary , St. Peter , St. Paul and St. Cuthbert ) were ‘ very numerous and supported at great and burthensome expense by the inhabitants of those parishes ’ . |
| 21 | The first point to note is that management should retain the majority by reference to nominal value of Newco 's issued share capital , after the institutions have invested , so that notwithstanding the equity investment by the institutions , management retains control of Newco within the meaning of s416(2) ( a ) . |
| 22 | The lower prices have had a dampening effect on innovative schemes to make better use of the natural resources consumed , and will do nothing to stimulate necessary investment by the generators on modernising their capacity . |
| 23 | Is not my right hon. Friend absolutely astonished at the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to condemn the absurd criticisms made of that investment by the Trades Union Congress ? |
| 24 | The old man 's gaunt face broke into a smile and his thin blue-veined hands clasped Corbett by the arms . |
| 25 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 26 | Tony always says that you can tell a happy motorcyclist by the flies on his teeth . |
| 27 | Far more than a ‘ companion ’ to the Hornblower novels , clarifying and extending the historical background and arranging the events of the hero 's life in chronological order instead of in the irregular order imposed on readers by the dates of publication of the books , Parkinson 's book is related in intention , though not in style and tone , to the amiable pamphlets published from time to time summarising the relationships and activities of the fictional inhabitants of Coronation Street . |
| 28 | Appreciation by the children of such history , craftsmanship and skill was no where more obviously shown than in the canteen where balloons , strawberry tarts and fizzy drinks made a fitting end to a successful visit . |
| 29 | They suggested that the title might be the cause of a lack of appreciation by the funders , the local authorities , of the complexity , responsibility and professionalism now required of the post holder . |
| 30 | Maxwell and Murdoch were no doubt entrenched in their organizations by the complexities of cross-holdings and foreign-registered companies , but their personal holdings were proportionately small , particularly in comparison with their predecessors . |