Example sentences of "[noun prp] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Several weeks of demonstrations in the northern state of Katsina by a group loyal to the local Shi'ite Moslem leader , Mallam Yakubu Yahaya , came to a head in April . |
| 4 | But they would not countenance the replacement of the pro-Soviet Marxist regime in Afghanistan by a regime that proclaimed itself ‘ neither East nor West ’ in a fashion similar to the Iranian theocracy . |
| 5 | The South African President , F W de Klerk announced he would meet President Bush later this month in the first visit to the United States by a South African leader in four decades . |
| 6 | " a settlement made in the United States by a person resident in the United States " ; 2. " the settled fund consisting of United States securities " ; 3. " the trustees resident in the United States and having a power to revoke the settlement " ; 4. " the settlement containing a provision that on such revocation the settled fund should revert to the settlor " ; 5. assume " that the trustees subsequently invested part of the settled fund in United Kingdom securities " ; 6 . |
| 7 | The Hamer company was started around 1974 in Illinois by a group of vintage guitar enthusiasts/ repairers led by Jol Dantzig . |
| 8 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 9 | ‘ Queen Margaret believes , ’ he continued , ‘ that her husband was murdered at Flodden by a member of Les Blancs Sangliers who have since waged continuous war against those who advised her late husband , such as Selkirk and Ruthven . ’ |
| 10 | Of course , it was a great achievement that the United Nations reacted so promptly to the invasion of Kuwait by a dictator capable of almost infinite nastiness . |
| 11 | A document written in Catalan and entrusted to Tristram by a friend . |
| 12 | Ulf , the bishop whose capabilities had so little impressed Bishop Ealdred , had disappeared from view and been replaced at Dorchester by a Saxon , Wulfwig , who was known to be on good terms with Leofric of Mercia . |
| 13 | They descended from hereditary riding-bailiffs of the abbots of Ramsey by a serjeanty dating from the twelfth century . |
| 14 | Alan Igglesden took five for 41 as Kent beat Leicestershire by an innings and 138 runs at Grace Road to move into second place , 25 points behind championship leaders Essex . |
| 15 | On rainy days he devoured books , recommending Shirley and Jane Eyre by an author known to him as Currer Bell . |
| 16 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 17 | The consequent unattractive quality of life led to a reappraisal of their commitment to Taiwan by a number of foreign companies . |
| 18 | It was proposed that the entire LDOCE vocabulary could be defined by the KDV by a series of four ’ defining cycles ’ that progressively add more of the core vocabulary to the KDV , until after three cycles all the core vocabulary is accounted for and the fourth cycle defines the remaining 27,758 headwords . |
| 19 | ‘ She thought the world of him , as he had been brought back specially from Florida by a friend of mine , ’ said Karen . |
| 20 | Sir Richard Doll 's long and distinguished career as an epidemiologist is to be celebrated on 15 February by a meeting at the Royal Society hosted by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund . |
| 21 | Prices of the Citroen AX and BX were increased from the end of February by an average of 3.5 per cent . |
| 22 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 23 | The Kevin Darley-ridden colt beat Bradawn Breever by a length with Jack Berry 's Palacegate Episode less than a length back in third . |
| 24 | There are several other species of roses with herbal connotations , such as R. Canina , rubiginosa , rugosa , centifolia , damascena , and indica , but this , the apothecary 's rose , sometimes known as the red damask rose , because it was thought to have been introduced from Damascus by a Crusader , had the greatest medicinal use . |
| 25 | The net indebtedness of bank A to bank B can be settled at the Bank of England by a transfer of bankers ' deposits from the account of A to the account of B. Notice that inter-bank settlement of this kind has no effect upon the total of bankers ' deposits , only upon their ownership . |
| 26 | The document had been prepared in England by a solicitor , Mr. Lawrence , of W. H. Hopkins & Co. , acting on the instructions of Mrs. Hammond . |
| 27 | 169 all out gave West Indies a win by an innings and 79 runs , the first time they had beaten England by an innings at home since 1934–5 ; by coincidence , it was the first time an England captain had chosen to field first in the Caribbean since Wyatt did in the same series . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , these same newspapers in the late summer of 1938 could blazon the news : ‘ England by an innings and 578 runs ! ’ |
| 29 | DETERRED by a quotation of £3,000 for the work , Four Marks Parish Council have decided not to get the mound of earth and builders ' rubble which has accumulated at the village centre levelled . |
| 30 | Arnold took a four and finished up beating Dai Rees by a stroke , although Dai holed a putt from 20 yards on the last for a three . |