Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1878 she published a novel Change upon Change ( American title , A Reed Shaken by the Wind , 1873 ) and in 1872–3 made her first visit to North America . |
| 2 | The Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano sits by the sea and tells us that Europeans ‘ tend to classify us as exotic birds-parrots , or toucans … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ La toilette d'une jeune mariée dans le costume antique ’ , dated ‘ Roma 1777 ’ , is one of five large paintings by Joseph-Marie Vien commissioned by the Comte d'Angiviller and is offered at this auction of Old Master paintings with the estimate of FFr2–3m ( £200–300,000 ; $350–530,000 ) . |
| 4 | Another celebrity winner was Schnorbitz , the St Bernard owned by the late Bernie Winters . |
| 5 | Murad 's successor , Bayezid I , was forced to turn his attention to the threat to his base in Asia Minor posed by the advance of the Mongol hordes of Timur the Lame ( Tamerlane ) . |
| 6 | A road from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is to be built as part of the project , providing a link to the proposed A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport . |
| 7 | A new road running from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is also to be built , eventually providing a link to A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport . |
| 8 | But the principal of Somerville stands by the college decision . |
| 9 | In the conflict with Gnosticism Rome played a decisive role , and likewise in the deep division in Asia Minor created by the claims of the Montanist prophets to be the organs of the Holy Spirit 's direct utterances . |
| 10 | The classic area of the Marne would be called ‘ Champagne ’ , while the Aube and those districts of the Marne excluded by the I908 decree would be known as the ‘ Champagne Deuxième Zone ’ . |
| 11 | AUDLEY LUMSDEN lines up on Oxford University 's right wing against Cambridge next Tuesday haunted by the chilling words he heard on a March Saturday in 1989 . |
| 12 | Dr Wells offers his advice on a new audio tape Coping with Headaches and Migraine produced by the Pain Research Institute ( PRI ) . |
| 13 | The ratio of ATF1/CREB immunoprecipitated by the CREB antibody gives an underestimate of ATF1 . |
| 14 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 15 | Gordon Hyam lives by the canal at Purton , the worst affected stretch of water . |
| 16 | Ulimo officials on Aug. 25 professed to be committed to the ECOWAS peace initiative and claimed that their forces were only fighting to ensure that the NPFL abided by the Yamoussoukro agreement . |
| 17 | When Millie knelt by the bed and the mattress seemed out of reach , she had to raise her clasped hands head high to rest them against it . |
| 18 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 19 | Most Western ambassadors boycotted the firework display but did attend a reception on Saturday hosted by the Prime Minister , Li Peng . |
| 20 | The traffic arrangements for the Kumbh mela in 1906 were entrusted to the same officer who had made all the arrangements for the Great Delhi Durbar organized by the Viceroy Curzon in 1904 . |
| 21 | He remembered Woil staying by the bench and the litter bin where the Men could reach him . |
| 22 | Iran and India sought to put forward a six-point peace plan , based on Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait followed by the pull-out of Western forces from the region . |
| 23 | Nor was Keynes prompted by the return to gold at the prewar parity , for this event occurred after his campaign for ‘ national development ’ had begun . |
| 24 | WISE initiated by The Engineering Council and the Equal Opportunities Commission ) |
| 25 | Feb. 19 , 1991 : Yeltsin called on Gorbachev to resign and on Feb. 22 up to 400,000 people joined a pro-democracy rally outside the Kremlin called by the " Democratic Russia " group [ see p. 38013 ] . |
| 26 | This is a manifestation of what Freud meant by the chaos of the id — the fact that it can contain within itself contradictory and mutually excluding instinctual drives without ever registering any distortion . |
| 27 | She expected to find Kathleen prostrated by the tragedy in her family , but although she spoke sadly of Cormac 's wasted life and her mother 's collapse , Kathleen seemed remarkably untouched by the tragedy . |
| 28 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 29 | In late April , some 1,000 Alameda supporters packed a meeting in Oakland attended by the commission . |
| 30 | A growing interest in Joseph Beuys in the United States indicated by the Walker Art Center 's major acquisition |